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Chartered Surveyors / Estate Agents A beautifully renovated 17th Century Guide Price former farmhouse, with impressive £750,000 Freehold Ref: P5372/J contemporary extension and Suffolk barn, Lenny’s Farm in a delightful rural location with Wilby Green Brundish outbuildings and grounds extending to Suffolk over 2 acres. IP13 8BJ Entrance hall, sitting room, lobby area, drawing room, kitchen/ Contact Us Clarke and Simpson breakfast room, dining room, utility room and cloakroom. Well Close Square Framlingham Five bedrooms, family bathroom and separate shower room. Suffolk IP13 9DU Double cartlodge with workshop and storeroom above. T: 01728 724200 F: 01728 724667 Traditional Suffolk barn. And The London Office Gardens, meadow, ponds and woods extending to, in all, 40 St James’ Place London SW1A 1NS approximately 2.35 acres. [email protected] www.clarkeandsimpson.co.uk Location Lenny’s Farm is situated in a rural standalone position along a single track country lane in the hamlet of Wilby Green, with a postal address of Brundish. Wilby Green comprises approximately 10 acres of common land which is maintained by the Parish Council. From the green a public footpath passes through woodland in the direction of Wilby village. The centre of Brundish is under a mile from Lenny’s Farm and here there is a public house, The Crown, and a village green with playground. The centre of Wilby is just 2 miles from the property and benefits from a nursery school and excellent primary school. The large village of Stradbroke is within 4 miles and offers a range of local shops including a bakery, a butchers and a dress shop, three pubs, a medical centre, village hall, children’s play area, hairdressing salon, library, a primary school and Stradbroke High School. There is also a leisure centre with a swimming pool, gym and tennis courts, as well as other clubs, including a popular cricket club, senior and youth football clubs, tennis club and bowls club. The market town of Framlingham lies 6.5 mile to the south and is best known locally for its fine Medieval Castle and further good choice of schooling with Framlingham College, Sir Robert Hitchams CEVAP School and Thomas Mills High School. The town also offers a good selection of shops, including a Co-op supermarket, public houses and restaurants. The South Norfolk town of Diss, with Morrisons, Tesco and Aldi supermarkets, lies about 14 miles to the north-east and from here there are Inter-City trains to Norwich and London’s Liverpool Street station. The Heritage Coast, with the popular centres of Southwold, Walberswick and Dunwich, is approximately 17 miles to the east. The county town of Ipswich lies about 25 miles to the south, and Norwich is just over 30 miles to the north. Description Although not listed, the original core of Lenny’s Farm is believed to date from the late 17th Century and is of traditional timber frame construction with rendered and colourwashed elevations under a clay pantile roof. The vendors acquired the property in 2007 and shortly thereafter went about fully renovating Lenny’s Farm, which involved ‘taking’ the property back to the original oak frame, repairing and replacing the defective timbers where necessary, introducing extensive levels of insulation, and then making good using traditional materials and methods of construction applied by specialist builders, Robert Norman Construction. During the renovation works a substantial extension was added at the rear, built in a sympathetic, but very contemporary style, at a juxtaposition to the original farmhouse. Clad in larch and with a zinc roof, the extension provides an impressive open plan kitchen/breakfast room and dining room, together with what is essentially a master bedroom suite above. Lenny’s Farm boasts excellent eco-credentials, with the building itself being extremely well insulated, all the windows and doors double glazed, underfloor heating to the majority of the house via a ground source heat pump and hot water supplemented by solar panels on the roof. The property is also wired with TV, telephone and Ethernet cabling throughout. Outside there is a traditional Suffolk barn, which is currently used as useful storage. There is also a double cartlodge and workshop, with large storage room above which was also built by the vendors. Both of these buildings provide tremendous scope for alternative uses, such as ancillary accommodation to the main house, holiday let or B&B facilities, annexes or work from home facilities, subject to the necessary consents. The gardens and grounds extend to just over 2 acres. These comprise formal gardens that immediately surround Lenny’s Farm, together with an orchard, vegetable patch, chicken run and ponds. To the west of the outbuildings is the flower meadow, with cut walkways meandering through it, beyond which is the wooded area where a thousand bluebell bulbs have been planted in recent years. Page 2 The Accommodation The House Ground Floor A large wooden door with glazed side lights provides access to the Entrance Hall, with opening within the original frame of the house to ‘The Lobby’ and opening through to the Kitchen/Breakfast Room 16’10 x 14’8 (5.13m x 4.47m) Forming part of the 2009 extension and with large oak frame casement windows providing wonderful views of the rear gardens, pond and farmland beyond. Fitted with bespoke contemporary kitchen including a breakfast bar and excellent range of cupboard and drawer units offering generous storage and with part granite and part oak worksurfaces over. Two stainless steel sinks with carved drainer to the side and mixer tap with drinking water connection. Five ring Smeg gas hob with two Neff ovens under and Elica extractor hood over. Integral dishwasher and recess with water connection for American style fridge freezer. Opening to walk-in shelved pantry cupboard. Door to the Page 3 Utility Room 6’ x 6’ (1.83m x 1.83m) With large window overlooking the drive and gardens, granite work surface with carved drainer incorporating a butler sink and mixer tap with recess and plumbing under for washing machine and tumble dryer. Travertine flooring to match the kitchen and range of built-in shelved cupboards. Extractor fan. The Kitchen/Breakfast Room opens into the Dining Room 15’4 x 11’5 (4.67m x 3.48m) Also forming part of the 2009 extension and with fully glazed bi-fold doors opening onto the decked area and gardens. Roof light, range of fitted cupboard and shelves, travertine tiled flooring throughout and recessed LED spotlighting. An opening within the original frame of the house provides access to the Sitting Room 18’9 x 15’4 (5.72m x 4.67m) An extremely impressive triple aspect reception area with open stud walling linking through to the kitchen and dining room. A number of casement windows within the original part of Lenny’s Farm provide delightful views of the surrounding gardens and grounds. The focal point of the sitting room is the open fireplace housing the Heta multi-fuel burning stove set on a raised brick hearth. Engineered oak flooring throughout, chamfered tie beam and exposed ceiling and wall timbers. Wall light points and opening through to the Page 4 Front Entrance Hall With solid oak front door, wide staircase to the first floor with open balustrading to the side, exposed ceiling and wall timbers, engineered oak flooring and opening into ‘The Lobby’ 15’4 x 9’4 (4.67m x 2.84m) Currently used as an extension to the Entrance Hall and sufficiently large to accommodate a table or study area if required. Wonderful exposed and open brick fireplace with oak bressumer beam and raised brick and pamment tile hearth. Exposed ceiling and wall timbers, wall light points, door to Walk-in understairs storage cupboard, which provides useful additional storage for coats and houses the service ‘hub’, including the hot water tank and ground source heat pump equipment. An opening beside the chimney breast leads through to the Drawing Room 15’4 x 14’8 (4.67m x 4.47m) A very comfortable and enticing additional reception area set away from the sitting room, kitchen and dining room. A light triple aspect room with casement and mullion windows providing good views of the surrounding gardens and grounds. Open and exposed brick fireplace containing the Villager multi-fuel burning stove set on a raised brick hearth with bressumer beam over. Chamfered tie beam together with exposed ceiling and wall timbers. A further door from ‘The Lobby’ provides access to the Cloakroom With traditional WC with high level cistern and wall mounted wash basin. Exposed ceiling and wall timbers, wall light point and window providing views over the front gardens. Stairs from the Entrance Hall rise to the Page 5 First Floor Landing Forming part of both the original building and extension, this area retains all of its original features including the wide oak and elm floorboards and exposed wall timbers. An opening within the original frame provides access to what could be the master suite if required and is part of the 2009 extension, connected via a stunning glazed link between the old and new part of the house. Recessed spotlighting and doors off to Master Bedroom 14’9 x 10’9 (4.5m x 3.28m) A good size double bedroom with almost full height glazed window, with integral oak bench seat, providing superb views over the gardens, pond and farmland beyond. Low level oak frame casement windows. Range of fitted wardrobe cupboards and wall light points. Bedroom Five 9’ x 7’ (2.74m x 2.13m) This could also be used as a study or as a dressing room serving the Master Bedroom.

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