An exceptional family home of style and charm

Stody Hall, , Freehold

Reception Hall • Dining room • Drawing room • Sitting room • Kitchen/breakfast room • Conservatory • Study Larder • Pantry • Utilty • Bootroom • Cellar Master bedroom with en-suite bath/shower room • Four further bedrooms • Two bathrooms • Laundry room Pair of self-contained holiday cottages • Annexe • Studio Stabling • Outbuildings • Formal and informal gardens Paddocks • In all about 3.5 acres.

Holt – 3 miles drawing room and dining room Blakeney – 6 miles with french doors to the gardens, complementing the The Property day to day rooms of the sitting Stody Hall is a wonderful south room and kitchen/breakfast facing family home, not seen room complete with Aga, on the open market for 50 north facing larder and a years and enjoying an elevated pantry. The lovely position within a delightful conservatory opens out to the pocket of unspoilt north terrace and gardens, perfectly Norfolk countryside. The positioned on a south to house is believed to date back south-west aspect. to the early 1600’s with All bedrooms are on the extensive remodelling in the first floor, with a particularly Georgian era, with later fine master bedroom with additions and alterations, to views of the valley and now present a house of en-suite bath/shower room. elegant proportions and There are a further four double charm. Unusually for a house bedrooms, two bathrooms and of this calibre, it is not listed. a useful laundry room with The current owners have linen cupboard. sympathetically modernised and enhanced the house with Holiday Cottages & Annexe attention to detail throughout. These comprise the Works have included a traditionally built ‘Old Stables’ replacement Haddenstone and the detached timber portico, replacement kitchen frame ‘Shepherds Rest’. Both and bathrooms, new oil-fired are well presented and popular central heating system, holiday cottages with open rewiring, the addition of a plan kitchen/dining/sitting bootroom and conversion of room, double bedroom and outbuildings. These works bathroom. continued externally with The ‘Old Stables’ is linked to landscaping of the gardens the annexe and can be and updating of the holiday incorporated to create a larger cottages. single unit if required. The The main house has fine annexe has a striking vaulted proportions, typical of the ceiling with sitting room, period, with detail including mezzanine bedroom and wet open fireplaces and shuttered room. sash windows. Formal yet comfortable rooms include the

Gardens and Grounds Stabling & Outbuildings The property is approached An enclosed brick paved from the south, through a five stable yard, with separate bar wooden gate mounted on access, leads to four loose brick pillars, with the steel boxes. Adjoining this area is a edged drive sweeping up to garage and cart shed, and the house and continuing to three useful storage rooms the rear of the house. The that could be utilised as a driveway spurs off to the games room or similar. cottages and stable yard. Opposite the stables is a There is parking for many cars. detached studio with power Stody Hall’s gardens are a and water, with glazed doors. particularly attractive feature Adjoining the annexe is a of the property and have been further storage room and tack landscaped and improved room and potting shed. under the current ownership. From steel edging to yew Situation hedging, pleached hornbeam Stody Hall is located in to rose beds, the gardens are peaceful and unspoilt delightful, with points of countryside in the small village interest throughout and of Stody, with distinctive saxon continue to be improved. To round tower church and set on the south are lawns, the edge of the picturesque herbaceous beds, box Glaven Valley. The charming hedging, young and village of , centred established trees including a around a green, includes the particularly fine horse renowned public house ‘The chestnut and an orchard within Hunny Bell’ which is a one mile a low brick and flint walled stroll or comfortable cycle ride garden. The main south facing away. The popular village of façade is adorned with a Edgefield has the equally well superb wisteria. To the regarded public house ‘The south-west of the house is a Pigs’ alongside a garage and charming enclosed garden, excellent garden Nursery. partly walled, with expanse of The house is conveniently lawn, herbaceous beds, rose located for the famous North beds, box hedging, and a Norfolk coast at Blakeney and lovely terrace perfect for (approximately six outside dining and with direct miles) and the popular access from the conservatory. Georgian town of Holt (three To the rear of the house is a miles). The latter is famous for further lawned area stretching its award winning restaurants, away from the house, with fine boutique shopping, Byfords specimen trees and levelled delicatessen and Gresham’s area formerly a croquet lawn. public school. Alongside these The paddocks are post and are the everyday facilities railed with water troughs, including bakery, green sweeping down the valley to a groceries, banking facilities wooded area with a tributary and medical centre. Further of the meandering education is available at along the boundary. Beeston Hall, near The coast, travelling down a hill where much of which is designated Stody Hall will then become as an Area of Outstanding visible in front of you. The Natural Beauty, is deservedly entrance to the Hall is on the popular with sailing left through five bar wooden enthusiasts and ornithologists. gate set on brick pillars. The There are regular seal trips postcode for the property is from both Morston and NR24 2ED Blakeney and a plethora of renowned restaurants and Services pubs along the coastline and Mains water, electricity and therefore in close proximity to private drainage. Oil fired Stody Hall. There are golf central heating. courses at , and Brancaster, a racecourse Local Authority at Fakenham and other leisure North Norfolk District Council facilities. The surrounding countryside Fixtures & Fittings to the property has a network All fixtures and fittings of footpaths and bridle ways including curtains are (none affecting Stody Hall) to specifically excluded from the enjoy, taking in the Stody sale, but may be available in Estate which provides rural addition, subject to separate footpaths and bridleways. negotiation.

Directions Viewings Leave Holt on the B1149 and Strictly by appointment with turn right onto Hunworth Rd. Savills. If there is any point Continue through Hunworth, which is of particular and out of the village, throught importance to you, we invite woodland and passing Stody you to discuss this with us, Lodge on the left, and at the especially before you travel to next set of crossroads turn view the property. Annexe, storage, tack room right. Follow this road until

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