The Street, Walsham le Willows, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31

An attractive period village house with generously proportioned accommodation and gardens of around 1/3rd of an acre standing in the centre of this highly regarded village.

Entrance hall, drawing room, dining room, study, kitchen/breakfast room, sitting/family room, conservatory and shower room/cloakroom.

Four first floor double bedrooms and a family bathroom.

Driveway, parking, single garage, mature established gardens with river frontage and a garden shed.

THE PROPERTY
The former village bakery is an attractive period house with generously proportioned accommodation standing in the centre of the village, close to amenities. This unlisted family house presents brick and flint elevations under predominantly pantile roofs and boasts accommodation of around 2,200 sq ft, arranged over two floors. Coming to the market for the first time in nearly 50 years, this well cared for and characterful family house would now benefit from some modernisation and updating. The entrance hall features the stairs leading to the first floor and doors lead to the ground floor accommodation with a drawing room featuring a red brick open fireplace with brick hearth, fitted bookshelves, secondary double-glazed window to front aspect and a door to the conservatory. The dining room also features a red brick fireplace and houses a Jotul wood burning stove, has a pamment floor, fitted shelving, cupboard under the stairs, secondary double-glazed window to the front aspect and windows to the rear. The inner hall leads to further accommodation with a study, which was the former bakery shop area with secondary double-glazed window to the front aspect. The kitchen, which is fitted with a range of base and eye level pine units, a butler sink, an oil-fired Stanley oven with back boiler controlling the central heating and a brick floor. There is plumbing for an automatic appliance and doors lead to the conservatory and the rear lobby, which has a door leading to the garden and accesses the wet room/cloakroom and a large sitting room/family room (23’ x 13’), which features a red brick fireplace with tiled hearth, secondary double-glazed windows to the side aspect and double doors leading to the garden. The large conservatory has a pamment floor and a fine Black Hamburg grapevine, which spans the ceiling, providing shade. On the first floor the landing leads to four double bedrooms all with secondary double glazing. There is also a family bathroom.

OUTSIDE
The property stands back from the road providing a small front garden enclosed by wrought iron estate fencing with a pedestrian gate leading to the front door and two small trees. The driveway to the side is capable of standing several vehicles and leads to a single garage. The south facing rear gardens are a particular feature of The Old Bakery and have areas of lawn with well stocked shrub beds and borders, a rear terrace area, a wisteria covered iron work archway with seating, which leads to a further garden area. There is a good-sized garden shed to the rear of the garage and access leads to the front of the property. The gardens have river frontage and there is a further rear area of garden, again with river frontage, reserved mainly as a wildlife area with many mature trees including walnut, apple and plum.

LOCATION
Walsham le Willows is an attractive and popular village with a thriving community and a pleasing mix of period and modern housing. It offers a range of facilities including a recently opened village stores, a hardware/country store, butchers and delicatessen, a public house/restaurant, primary school and offers good access to the A14 and to the mainline station at Stowmarket, which offers a fast and regular service to London Liverpool Street taking approximately 85 minutes. The historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds lies approximately 11 miles away and offers a full range of schooling, recreational and shopping facilities and cultural amenities including the impressive Georgian Theatre Royal and the Abbey Gardens. The nearby centres of Newmarket, Cambridge and Ipswich are all within easy reach. The international airport at Stansted is some 60 miles away, where in addition to air services there is an express train to London.

DIRECTIONS
From Bury St Edmunds take the A143 through the village of Great Barton and towards Ixworth. Continue on the bypass at Ixworth and at the 2nd roundabout take the third exit signposted Walsham le Willows. Continue along this road and into the village, past the church and just before the village stores, The Old Bakery will be found on the right.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water, electricity and drainage.
Oil fired central heating.
Local Authority Mid Suffolk District Council
Council Tax Band E
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Ofcom states speeds available of up to 1000Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes - varies depending on network provider. Please visit to check availability
Viewing Only by appointment with the sole agents Jackson-Stops. Tel.