Withindale Lane, Long Melford, CO10

Property Reference: 2684203.

The "Port Nacelle" first floor double room, with en suite bathroom (22 metres square) all bills included - will be available (February). The "Starboard Nacelle" first floor double room, with en suite handbasin (17 metres square) all bills included - is available now. Both rooms overlook, amidst fields to the south,  the river Stour as it flows west to east parallel to the long axis of the house.

The room/s are in a shared house built 1805 of 440 square metres internal floor area set in peaceful and secluded grounds within the dale (with 140 metres of river frontage) beside the beautiful village of Long Melford and is available to singles or couples. 

The property benefits from off street parking, gas central heating, a fruitful apple and pear orchard and raspberry plants at the back of the house.

The Port Nacelle is £820 per month (all bills included). It is available 7-Feb-2026 The Starboard Nacelle is £680 per month (all bills included) and is available 10-Nov-25.

Breaking the bills down (for your information) and amortising between a putative six inhabitants the council tax comes to £70 per month, the water bill £8 per month, the power bill circa £129 per month, £6 for the (optical fibre) internet and £42 for gardening, being £255 per lodger for all the bills. This breakdown is simply for comparison with landlords who charge bills separately. The rent does include all the bills. 

Improvements in 2025-6

The window in both rooms is being improved to make it enhance the architecture of the house. This is a circa £15,000 job (both windows) of which an £11,000 deposit has been paid. Scaffolding is scheduled to go up 29-Nov-25. The aim of the work is to match the aspect ratio (though not surface area) of the grander windows at the front of the house while increasing the rooms' natural light and improving their insulation. The windows will be manufactured offsite in December.  The stone cills possibly put in place in December too. We expect the work of replacing (and enlarging) the existing window to be completed between 15-Jan-26 and 31-Jan-26. 

In early October a new pure latex mattress (£940) of double size was delivered for the Starboard Nacelle. A 20% partial redecoration occurred on 22-Sep-25.  I aim to have new photographs taken upon the existing lodger moving out but meanwhile I have included just some amateurish ones. In October 2025 the carpet was removed from the port Nacelle, and the floorboards thereby exposed were restored and lacquered. Here too, I will submit additional photographs once the existing lodger has moved out on or around 07-Feb-26.

The property is peradventure shared with a forty something website designing gentleman entrepreneur who performs gymnastics in the (waterless) swimming pool (gym), a sixty something gentleman online games (Bull Run also known as Manassas Junction 1861), and hopefully, Time Machine inventing-landlord (M.A. Cantab), a fifty something Kiwi (Orthodox) Reverend Doctor software-engineer-priest-lawyer (who is actually resident in the Old Garage) but is often to be found, in the atrium, thrashing the landlord at a game of Korea, the twenty something quality control engineeress and her hard working delivery driver boyfriend, a thirty something agricultural worker of quarter-private means and his forty something part-time bookkeeping Ukrainian girl-friend, and two twenty something professionals, a Chinese born statistician working for the medical research council, and his Chinese born management consultant girl friend (both of whom are Dutch), and one twenty something computer scientist intern, and perhaps a forty something music teacher and, from time to time, particular friends of the aforementioned ten or eleven (the landlord being, naturally, friendless!) without whom the collective would be incomplete. For your information board gamers (depending on the game, so not go, scrabble, monopoly, cludo or chess!!) would not, by a significant minority of the inhabitants, be frowned on and nor would piano players and classical musicians, libertarians (very approved of), history graduates, singers or apostles of the free market. As for those who think the world is going to Hades in a hand basket, who are more worried about global warming and overpopulation than the coming ice age and underpopulation, who would wisely decline to lay down their life for private property rights being extended to the asteroid belt and Mars or who simply like to party they would be more than welcome to put their case to a sceptical audience (which might include a majority of sympathisers).  

GROUND FLOOR (320 Square metres)

• The music room (lodger's use) is 4.0 metres (east west) x 5.8 metres (north south) (23 square)
  
• The kitchen (lodgers' use) is 5.0 metres x 4.4 metres (20 square)
  
• The breakfast room (lodgers' use) is x 6.0 metres x 4.4 metres (26 square)
  
• The cloakroom is 3.1 metres (east west) x 2.1 metres (6 square)
• The library (sage's bedroom) is 5.3 metres x 4.4 metres (23 square)
  
• The reception (landlord's primary office) is 5.9 metres x 5.1 metres (30 square)
  
• The atrium (landlord's secondary office) is 4.2 metres (east west) x 10.6 metres (north south) (45 square)
  
• The pool room (lodgers' play area) is 7.9 metres x 10.6 metres (84 square)
  
• The secondary kitchen is 4.8 metres x 2.4 metres (12 square)
  
• The shower room (collective use) is 4.8 metres x 8.0 metres (38 square)
  
• The cloak room is 3.0 mertres x 1.4 metres (4 square)

FIRST FLOOR (117 Square metres)

• The dressing (entrepreneur's) room 4.3 metres x 2.8 metres(12 square)
  
• The master bedroom (available) 5.2 metres x 6.1 metres (32 square)
  
• The master bedroom en suite bathroom (available) 2.0 metres x 4.0 metres (8 square)
  
• The family bathroom (three inhabitants use) 2.3 metres x 4.0 metres (9 square)
  
• The Starboard Nacelle (independent's) room 4.2 metres x 4.0 metres (17 square)
  
• The Port Nacelle (newest lodger's) room 4.0 metres x 4.0 metres (16 square)
  
• The Port Nacelle en suite bathroom (newest lodger's) 1.5 metres by 4.1 metres (6 square)
  
• The Impulse Engine (craftsman's use) Room (north west bedroom) 4.0 metres x 3.1 metres (12 square)
  
• The Impulse Engine (craftsman's use) en suite bathroom 1.3 metres x 2.8 metres (4 square)

The pool is currently not in aquatic use and would not be under the terms of this lodging. 

The rooms are both available to couples but there would be a surcharge for a couple of £160 per month. 

Although there is no deposit taken the first three months of rent are payable in advance. For payment 11 or 12 months in advance there would be a 5% discount with a 4% discount for payments 9 or 10 months in advance and a 2% discount for payment 7 or 8 months in advance.

Summary & Exclusions:
- Rent Amount: 2 rooms available, from £680.00 each per month (£156.92 per week)
- Deposit / Bond: from £0.00 per room
- 8 Bedroom Property (2 rooms currently available for rent)
- 5 Bathrooms
- Property comes furnished
- Available to move in from 10 November 2025
- Live-In Landlord
- Minimum tenancy term is 3 months
- Maximum number of tenants is 4
- DSS enquiries welcome
- Students welcome to enquire
- No Pets, sorry
- No Smokers
- Not Suitable for Families / Children
- Bills Included
- Property has parking
- Property has garden access
- EPC Rating: EPC Not Required (Shared Accommodation)

If calling, please quote reference: 2684203

Fees:
You will not be charged any admin fees.


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