Delightful village house requiring total renovation

The Grange, Duke Street, Haughley, , IP14 3QT

Freehold - No chain

5 bedrooms • 2 bathrooms • 3 reception rooms • Aga kitchen/breakfast room • Potential to incorporate an annexe within the house • Coach house/garaging • Established gardens • About 0.33 acre

Local information east and the moat of Haughley The Grange is situated within the castle to the west and north. picturesque and thriving village Haughley castle is considered of Haughley. The village has a one of the best preserved motte bakery, shops, post office, Co-op, and bailey earthworks in Suffolk. , restaurant and school. Further facilities including banks Accommodation and a direct fast train service to A side entrance porch leads to a London can be found just 2 miles panelled door into the front hall away in Stowmarket. The popular with principal stairs to the first market town of floor landing. A door from the and county town lie 15 hall leads through to a dining miles away to the west and east room with fireplace and respectively. The A14 is secondary stair to a first floor approximately half a mile away stand alone bedroom. Beyond giving access to Cambridge and the dining room is a scullery The Midlands, as well as London kitchen with fireplace and and Stanstead Airport. Regular outlooks over the gardens. There rail services from Stowmarket to is also a ground floor bathroom. London’s Liverpool Street Station This wing of the house lends in about 75 minutes. itself as a self-contained annexe. A further door from the hall leads MILEAGES into the kitchen/breakfast room which has an Aga, basic kitchen Stowmarket 2 miles (London units and French doors out to the Liverpool Street about 75 south facing gardens. Beyond the minutes), Bury St Edmunds 15 kitchen is a sitting room with miles, Ipswich 15 miles (London outlooks over the front gardens, Liverpool Street about 65 fireplace with glazed display minutes), alcove and French windows out (All mileages and times are to the gardens. This opens approximate) through into a library with fitted bookcases, bay window and corner cloakroom. About this property The Grange, formerly the rectory FIRST FLOOR to the village, is believed to date The staircase leads onto a split- from the early 17th century and is level landing with a double Grade II Listed of Special bedroom with triple aspect Architectural and Historic windows. The inner landing leads Interest. The accommodation is to 3 further bedrooms several of arranged over three floors and is which have wash-basins, in built in need of complete renovation. wardrobes and a connecting box The location of the house is room. particularly appealing being positioned with the church to the SECOND FLOOR Tenure The second floor is accessed off Freehold - No chain the inner landing where there are three rooms all requiring Local Authority renovation. District Council. Council Tax band F OUTSIDE the house is set back from Duke Viewing Street with a parking area Strictly by appointment with fronting the garage/coach house. Savills Adjoining this is a garden store and former home office/studio. An internal stair leads to the second floor former play room. To the rear is a gardeners cloakroom and greenhouse. The gardens have established trees including a fine mulberry tree, small orchard with a garden building to the far corner. The gardens are well stocked and surround the house with seating areas and various storerooms connected back to the house. To the rear is the access to the cellar which leads through to a wine cellar.

SERVICES

Mains electricity, water and drainage. Oil fired central heating. (The services have not been tested).

NOTE The property has been in the same ownership for over 40 years and requires complete renovation. The property will not be fully cleared of all contents upon completion and buyers should be aware that the clearing and disposal of any items left at the property will be the responsibility of the purchasers.

DIRECTIONS The property is positioned to the far west end of Duke Street located next door to the church.

The Grange, Duke Street, Haughley, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 3QT Tom Orford Savills Suffolk 01473 234800 savills savills.co.uk [email protected]

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