CLAY HILL LANE WATTISHAM, IP7 7JS

Guide Price £695,000, Freehold

CLAY HILL FARM HOUSE, CLAY HILL LANE WATTISHAM, IPSWICH

Guide Price £695,000, Freehold 6 bedrooms • 5 bathrooms • 5 reception rooms • kitchen/breakfast room • stables & outbuildings • mature gardens • triple cartlodge • about 5.75 acres

Situation Clay Hill Farm is a well positioned period farmhouse of enormous character set in undulating Suffolk countryside offering far reaching views.

The nearby village of Bildeston is in a particularly sought after stretch of Suffolk countryside along with historic villages such as Chelsworth, Lavenham, Kersey and Long Melford. Bildeston has three public houses, a particularly well known restaurant and a variety of local shops. A wider range of shopping, educational and recreational facilities can be found in the market towns of Ipswich, Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds and Hadleigh. Mainline rail services are available at Colchester, Manningtree, Ipswich & Stowmarket with direct services to London Liverpool Street (from 65 & 80 minutes respectively)

Description The property is Grade II Listed and believed to date from the late C16/ early C17 with C19 & C21 additions and alterations. Rendered and part pargetted timber-frame, part red and gault brick under plain tiled roofs. This is a good example of an evolved farmhouse with the early structure and plan mainly intact and some unusual C19 fittings.

The ground floor accommodation comprises a kitchen/breakfast room which leads through to the newly extended part of the house which now benefits from a fabulous sitting room with spiral staircase giving access to the master suite. The dining room and study are also part of the recent extension. There are a futher 3 reception rooms and a downstairs bathroom.

The master suite is situated in the recent extension

and is vaulted with sitting room offering stunning views out across the surrounding countryside. There is also a dressing room and en suite bathroom. The first floor boasts a further 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms (2 en suite).

Outside Clay Hill Farm is approached across a small bridge and then a gravel drive which leads to a parking area and triple cartlodge. The gardens are mainly laid to lawn and benefit from established planting and hedging. There is a wide terrace area along the rear of the property perfect for alfresco dining. The property also benefits from a woodland area and paddock land.

Agents Note: The Retreat has a right of way across the middle drive.

Tenure Freehold

Directions From Ipswich take the A1071 towards Hadleigh. Continue forward on to the A1214. At traffic signals turn right onto the A1071. At the roundabout go straight over and after approximately 6 miles turn right onto the A1141. Continue on this road which becomes the B1115. Once in Bildeston pass the market square on your left and after 75 yards turn right on to Wattisham Road. Continue on this road until you enter the outskirts of Wattisham and then turn left on to Clayhill Lane. Just before the bottom of Clayhill lane turn right onto a gravel drive and after 100 yards turn left on to the drive which approaches the property.

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