Attractive village house with outstanding gardens

Springcroft, Whights Corner, , , IP8 3LB

Freehold

4 bedrooms • 3 bath/shower rooms • entrance hall • 2 reception rooms • kitchen/breakfast room • home office, boat store and garaging • stunning gardens & paddock • In all About 2.3 acres

Local information permission (now lapsed) was Springcroft is situated on the given for a substantial two storey outskirts of Washbrook and extension. backs on to open countryside. The county town of Ipswich, just The gardens are a particular over 3 miles to the east, has a feature with numerous wide range of shopping and established ornamental trees, recreational facilities and regular shrubberies, herbaceous borders intercity rail services to London’s and a productive vegetable Liverpool Street scheduled to garden. There is a long drive that take just over an hour. The A12 leads round to a 2 car garage and A14 are within a few minutes with workshop space and storage drive and provide easy access to space over. The equestrian Cambridge and the Midlands to enthusiast can take advantage of the west, Colchester and London the paddock to the far end of the to the south and to property where there is also a the east. There are excellent stable/field shelter and a small educational facilities in both the copse. private and state sectors with Ipswich School, Ipswich High, The Outside Royal Hospital School and Orwell Park School within close Springcroft is approached off a proximity. There is a choice of private lane which leads to one golf clubs within the area the other house, Springcroft being nearest being and the last property. There is a short there are excellent sailing gravelled drive to the front of facilities including Levington and the house and a further drive that Woolverstone Marinas, Ipswich leads around the house to a Haven Marina and the Royal larger parking area and the Harwich Yacht club. Riding is well outbuildings, positioned just established in the local area. beyond the main garden of the property. The front garden is well About this property planted with box lined rose beds Springcroft is believed to date and shrubberies with further back to around 1926 and is built ornamental flowerbeds and trees. of red brick under pitched tiled A pathway leads to the rear roofs with rendered exteriors. gardens where immediately The house has had a fronting the southern elevation of considerable amount of work to the house is a terrace with raised it including cavity wall insulation, fish ponds and well planted UPVC double glazing and the flowerbeds divided by pathways. interior is extremely well Beyond is a brick and tiled presented. The accommodation garden outbuilding which has incorporates a ground floor been converted for use as a bedroom suite which also could home office. There is a wide work as a small annexe. Planning terrace area to the rear and sloping lawns with a vegetable Viewing garden, fruit garden, further Strictly by appointment with flowerbeds and lawns with a Savills pathway leading through a wisteria, rose and a clematis pergola. To the side of the house is a potting shed/store. The back drive culminates in a wide gravelled standing to one side of which is a part enclosed former boat store (4 bays) and on the other a double garage with workshop space constructed on a brick base with weatherboard exterior under pitched pantile roof. There is also excellent storage above. Beyond this is an established orchard and to the far end of the property is an enclosed paddock with a field shelter/stable.

Services

Mains electricity, gas, water and drainage. Gas fired central heating. Electric heating to home office.

DIRECTIONS

From Ipswich proceed southbound on the A12. Take the exit signposted . Proceed underneath the A12 and follow the signs to Copdock. After just over a mile pass the Best Western Hotel Ipswich on the left hand side. Continue to the end of the road and take a right turn just before the turn to the left into Washbrook and take the immediate first turn onto a small gravelled lane which leads to Springcroft.

Tenure Freehold

Local Authority Council - Council Tax band E

Springcroft, Whights Corner, Washbrook, Ipswich, Suffolk IP8 3LB Tom Orford Savills Suffolk 01473 234 800 savills savills.co.uk [email protected]

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