80 School Road Tilney St

80 School Road Tilney St. Lawrence | King’s Lynn | Norfolk | PE34 4QZ 80 SCHOOL ROAD Top Of The Class Space to roam, Maybe a business at home? Children can be wild & free, Picking fruit, climbing trees. A house with roots but now with many modern attributes! • A Former Norfolk Farmhouse Close to King’s Lynn • Just Under 4.5 Acres (stms) of Post & Rail Paddock & Gardens • Refurbished and in Good Decorative Order Throughout • 3 Reception Rooms, 5 Bedrooms, 3 Bath & Shower Rooms • Studio/ Annex, Double Garage & Workshop plus Metal Tractor Shed • Timber Stables, Feed Room or Tack Room & Solar Panels • Fish Pond, Vegetable Beds, Herb Garden, Small Orchard • 0.7 Acre Paddock/Building Plot (STP) Available Under Separate Negotiation • Main House Accommodation Extends to 2,464 sq.ft. The Area The village of Tilney St Lawrence is in the county of Norfolk, although interestingly lies virtually on the border of 3 counties: Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire! A busy little country village, as the owners said “ideal for village activities with a Primary School, Corner Shop, Post Office, the pub ‘The Buck’, Church, garage for repairs, hairdressers, Village Hall, Playing Fields, and Playground for children.” The name Tilney is thought to derive from the Old English for Tilla’s Island and St Lawrence refers to the dedication of the village parish church. Although of ancient roots dating from Roman times, the village grew around its Church dedicated to St Lawrence in the 13th Century. Its most famous son is one John Aylmer born in 1521, the private tutor to Lady Jane Grey. He was to rise in import by becoming the Bishop of London for 17yrs, is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London but sadly he was not too popular! The Property The history of the “property goes back to 1700 and was originally a farm”. The present owners said it was a “working farm until recently and was in a bad state of repair, very tired but the perfect opportunity to create our own stamp and make into a lovely family home. We designed a 2-bedroomed extension; conservatory; built a substantial double garage with workshop and room above; restored the Studio and landscaped the grounds. Internally most bedrooms are en suite and it is a really great house for entertaining both inside and outside.” Having crossed the quaint brick bridge over the dyke into the gravel laid spacious driveway, one is immediately impressed by the all encompassing space, which extends from the large grounds of the property to the farmland all around. “This is a quiet and peaceful area with an abundance of wild life, particularly birds.” Accommodation Through the front door there is an entrance space for wet weather apparel before going through a second door into the time-honoured Hallway. To the left is an impressively large and delightfully luminous Family This is a quiet and peaceful area with an abundance of wild life, particularly birds.” Room/Dining Room. The beating heart of the home with sunlight flooding in from 3-sides of the room, this is the perfect entertaining or everyday room. Centrally located on the outside wall is the charming fireplace with a beam as the mantel, beyond this is one of 3 sets of double doors going out to a strip of patio, green lawn and a variety of trees beyond. Opposite is another double door into the Kitchen, which provides extremely easy access between Dining area and cooking area! The third set of doors lead to the Sun Room/ Conservatory. All windows are “new PVC lockable windows”; easy to look after and an excellent safety feature. “There is underfloor heating obtained by the property’s air source heat pump system in this room which extends to the Sun Room/Conservatory”, so an extremely cosy and efficient form of heating for the colder months. The flooring is Moduleo which is known for being: moisture-resistant, scratch and scuff resistant, sound and heat absorbent, slip resistant and easy to clean. The Sun Room provides a light and toasty area to sit all the year round and absorb the rays and warmth whilst looking out onto the raised patio, pond and fields beyond. It too provides easy access to this wonderfully expansive patio area, again a splendid place to entertain - especially a sizzling BBQ in the good weather sitting around the pond with a long cool drink in hand! Cleverly the tinted glass roof is of the self-cleaning type! The Kitchen/Breakfast room can be accessed both from the Hallway or the Dining Room and includes a wonderful old-fashioned walk-in Bedroom 2 - Double bedroom Bedroom 3 - Double bedroom with en suite facilities Bedroom 4 - Double bedroom with en suite facilities Bedroom 5 - A versatile room which could either be used as a single room or a Study. Family Bathroom - White bathroom suite including shower and bath. Pantry, which is such a treat, with its lower cupboards and open Air Source Heat Pump - a wonderful green alternative way to Upstairs shelving. This is a big spacious room, a place where friends and heat your home, and an ideal solution if you want to generate All the bedrooms lead off the upper hall and again we find yet The Grounds family will naturally gather and natter! There is so much storage your own heat and potentially save money on your energy bills. more wonderful storage with two cupboards off the hallway. All The amazing thing about the gardens is that you can be as creative and space as well as room for a large kitchen table and chairs - so the bedroom floors are either the original wood or reclaimed artistic as you like with so much interesting space surrounding you on versatile! The ceramic tiled floor is in lovely warm tones, there The downstairs WC is also located off the Utility Room. wood. “Note the very modern light tube, one of three within all sides, or you can leave things simple. Both would look stunning! The are wood effect kitchen cabinets with beautiful real wood work the property - no electricity needed, just natural light reflected present owners have built the most wonderful Patio to the rear of the surfaces at one end of the kitchen and the other end are the Located at the front of the house is the Reception Room. This down the tube bouncing off silver foil.” So simple, so clever! property in Indian Sandstone and included a pond, in which they have Koi French doors into the Dining Room. light airy room with its original wooden floor and charming fire Carp (not staying). There is a water-fall with a four chamber filter system place makes the perfect place to entertain family and friends or Master Bedroom with en suite shower room A lovely within the pond. Off the Kitchen is the Utility Room for your daily washing just chill peacefully of an evening. commodious room with dual aspect allowing for views in more plus another sink perfect for washing the home grown garden than one direction and creating much natural light. Here again A magical place to spend an afternoon or evening in the sunshine, dining produce! (More storage can be found in the under stairs cupboard.) there is natural wood flooring, the wooden flooring here being al fresco looking out to the fields and trees beyond. The present owners reclaimed wood. There is also a built in cupboard. have a Hot Tub on the patio under a roof covering of the Studio (for sale Within this area is also located the Boiler Room containing the separately). What a wonderful way to spend an evening! The owners have planted a variety of flora and fauna including a Metal Container/Tractor Shed fantastic Vegetable bed - three raised beds with railway sleepers with Behind the Stables is a metal container which has been cleverly two smaller raised beds for strawberries. There is a Herb Garden; a contained as another shed for storage, maybe for farm machinery… small orchard with apples, pears and plum trees and all is fenced in with sturdy stock fencing so perfect if you have dogs! Double Garage with Workshop With its wide garage doors which are operated electrically, a great Outside Buildings covered arena with a Workshop to the side. Located within the Studio A vast area that could be utilised in so many different ways. Workshop is a stairway to a huge loft space that is the full length and Here could be a ‘Granny Annex’, Dance Studio, Gym, Office or as it is width of the garage. presently used - a Cinema Room! The flexibility of this space is a joy! In a Nutshell Stables/Feed Room or Tack Room This really is the superb place for anyone who is looking for a flexible, Again another versatile space spacious, modern, country family home surrounded by leafy greenery, which has a perfect local community and facilities and is also not far from both towns and cities with access to London. If you have dreamt of starting up or continuing your business, then here you have the buildings to do it. Not just one business either! The scope is endless! (Subject to planning) From a social point of view - here you have an enviable area to entertain! What fabulous parties could be held here! From a family point of view - children can run wild and free - but safe. With the local Primary School and playgrounds, it’s a dream location! Location, Location The village is 52 miles from the city of Norwich, 38 miles from Peterborough with it’s main line railway station to London King’s Cross, 9 miles from King’s Lynn with railway to London King’s Cross, 6 miles from Watlington with direct line to London and the nearest town is Wisbech which is 8 miles away.

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