Superbly restored country house in beautiful grounds

Dovermoor, The Street, Southolt, Eye, IP23 7QJ

Freehold

5 bedrooms • 3 bath/shower rooms • 3 reception rooms • Kitchen/breakfast room & garden room • Range of outbuildings & double cart lodge • Tennis court & swimming pool • About 6.4 acres

Local information Internally the house is presented Distances to a high standard with numerous Bedfield 2 miles features including, exposed Debenham 5 miles beams and studwork, a galleried 7.7 miles and vaulted hall and polished oak Woodbridge 19 miles boarded floors. The kitchen/ (All mileages are approximate) breakfast room is superbly fitted with bespoke wooden base and Positioned off a quiet village lane wall mounted units, granite work Dovermoor is situated in the surfaces, an oil fired Aga, built in attractive village of Southolt. The induction hob, NEFF oven, village of Bedfield is two miles steamer and warming drawer. away providing a Primary School, The garden room is off the Bedfield church, parts of which breakfast room offering date back 900 years and a pub. wonderful views of the mature The village of Debenham is only gardens beyond. The utility, five miles away, which has a pub, pantry and boot/boiler room are café and supermarket. The larger off the kitchen. The ground floor market town of Framlingham, also provides two cloakrooms. being six miles to the south east, offers a wider variety of The two principal reception shopping facilities and the public rooms are well proportioned with school, Framlingham College is large windows over looking the on the outskirts of the town itself. gardens. The drawing room has beautiful panelling, exposed oak Recreational facilities in the area flooring and a fireplace with a include golf courses at Jotul wood burning stove. The Woodbridge, and family room also benefits from a and the Heritage Villager wood burning stove and Coast provides sailing and fishing has French doors out to the opportunities on the Alde, terrace. Deben, Orwell and Stour estuaries. The first floor is approached from the large entrance hall and leads About this property up to a galleried landing. The Dovermoor is set in a delightful impressive master bedroom has rural position surrounded by an en-suite bathroom with free established gardens and grounds. standing roll-top bath and Constructed from a timber frame separate shower and washbasin. and partially rendered under a There are a further four double pitched tiled roof with the bedrooms, two of which have en accommodation arranged over suite shower rooms, and a three floors the house has been separate family bathroom. The sensitively restored and second floor is currently used as refurbished by the current an office with an additional room owners. to the side, currently used for storage. There is potential for From Ipswich head northwards further development(STP). on the A12 by passing Woodbridge and Wickham The house has been superbly Market and taking a left slip road decorated throughout to the to Framlingham. Proceed along highest standard and is ready to the B1116 heading north westward move in. out of Framlingham towards Saxtead Green. On joining the Outside A1120 take a left turn and The drive culminates in a large proceed until taking the first gravelled parking sweep to the right hand turn to Bedfield. side of the house giving access Continue along until meeting a T- to the double garage and before junction and turn right. Continue the double cart lodge. The front along this road for approximately garden is mainly laid to lawn with 1.5 miles passing the primary a partial moat running along the school, the road then bears left. boundary. The rear gardens are Carry onto Southolt Road, particularly beautiful with well passing the sports pavilion. stocked herbaceous and rose Continue, bearing left onto Mill borders, wide expanses of lawn, Road, which turns again into established trees and hedging, Southolt Road, onto the Street providing the property with a and Dovermoor will be found on high degree of privacy and the left. seclusion. Along the eastern boundary lies the walled Tenure courtyard where the swimming Freehold pool is situated, heated by solar panels and an air source heat Local Authority pump. Behind this is the hard District Council tennis court, garage and gym area. Viewing Strictly by appointment with The large Suffolk barn is Savills accessed via double doors on either side and has the potential to be developed as ancillary accommodation to the main house subject to the necessary consents being obtained. Behind the tennis court lies the large kitchen garden and Victorian greenhouse, orchard and paddock land. The paddock access is gained via a right of way along the far eastern boundary.

Services Mains electricity, water and drainage. Oil fired central heating.

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Dovermoor, The Street, Southolt, Eye, IP23 7QJTotal 3706 Peter Oglivie Savills Suffolk 01473 234 800 savills savills.co.uk [email protected]

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