Residential Property

Elm Tree Farmhouse Thrandeston Road Guide Price £465,000 Eye, IP23 8DR

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A fine Listed home overlooking Mellis Common with 2 outbuildings offering up potential for conversion.

Kitchen, 3 reception rooms, dairy/utility, cloakroom, 4/5 bedrooms and bathroom. Sitting in just over half an acre of delightful gardens with pond.

Location Mellis is a popular north Suffolk village with the houses spread around one of Suffolk’s largest commons. Within the village there is a primary school with an excellent reputation, public house and church. It is well placed for access via the A140 and A143 and is equidistant about 25 miles from , and . Cambridge is also easily accessible via the A143 and the A14. Eye, just 2 miles away, has more amenities and includes schooling to sixth form level at the well regarded Hartismere High School.

Diss, a larger market town, is about 4 miles away and has a mainline train station and regular commuter services to London Liverpool Street, Ipswich and Norwich. A journey to London is scheduled to take around 90 minutes. Diss has good primary and secondary schools, local and national shops and a wide range of social and sporting facilities including an 18 hole golf course. [Type text] twgaze.co.uk

The Property The delightful gardens comprise a pond, vegetable plot, clipped yew Elm Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II* Listed timber framed house worthy and box hedging, colourful shrub and flowerbeds and a variety of of mention in Nikolaus Pevsner's Guide 'Suffolk (The Buildings of mature trees. Overall the plot measures 0.59 acre (0.237 ha). )'. The property is presented in very good order and retains many of the original period features including a screens passage with Services chamfered muntins, chamfered mullioned windows and exposed timber Mains water, drainage and electricity are connected to the property. frame. The rooms are light, some with double aspects overlooking the Heating is via solid fuel/woodburning stoves and solid fuel Aga to the attractive gardens and Common. three principal ground floor rooms with the remaining rooms being heated by night storage or electric heaters. Please note that the The house has undergone a programme of extensive restoration and services/appliances/central heating and heating system/plumbing and inglenook fireplaces have also been uncovered, two revealing arched electrical installations have not been tested by the selling agents and plaster fireplaces with a rare splash paint effect finish. The bathroom the purchasers must satisfy themselves as to the condition and has been updated with a white period suite and woodburning stoves warranty of these items. have been installed in the dining room and sitting room. A large solid fuel Aga sits in the fireplace recess in the kitchen which features an Directions original ornamented plaster ceiling, and the adjoining dairy with its From Diss heading south on the A140 turn right signposted to Yaxley original window shutters and stone sink makes a useful store/utility and continue through the village into Mellis and past the school. Take room. There is a large unconverted attic space. the next right turn into Thrandeston Road and the property will be seen a little way along on the left hand side. Outside The farmhouse is approached from the road by a short track which Viewing serves two other properties and over which the vendor has a right of Strictly by appointment with TW Gaze. way. A five bar gate opens on to a shingle driveway giving access to the rear of the property where there is space to park several cars. Freehold

At the back of the house there are two outbuildings with potential as Ref: 14571/REY holiday lets, home offices, small workshops, studios or extra accommodation. Both buildings have wc, power and water connected.

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