PICTURESQUE COUNTRY HOUSE CLOSE TO THE POPULAR COAST The Old Manor, Pretty Road, Theberton, Suffolk, IP16 4RY

Freehold

Wealth of original features and delightful gardens

The Old Manor, Pretty Road, Theberton, Suffolk, IP16 4RY Freehold

6 bedrooms ◆ 4 bath/shower rooms ◆ 4 reception rooms & study ◆ kitchen/breakfast room ◆ utility & cloakroom ◆ conservatory ◆ mature garden ◆ cart lodge ◆ about 1 acre ◆ EPC rating = Listed Building

Situation Distances 4 miles, 5 miles, 7 miles, 12 miles (All mileages are approximate)

The popular village of Theberton lies close to the Suffolk Heritage Coast with the market town of Saxmundham five miles away offering a range of shopping and recreational facilities. The popular coastal towns of Aldeburgh and Southwold both have superb recreational facilities including sailing and golf courses. They also both benefit from a variety of excellent shops, public houses, restaurants and cinemas.

The A12 Great Yarmouth to London Road gives easy access to London and the south, with a railway service from Saxmundham and to , and London Liverpool Street. For those with leisure interests in mind the Heritage Coast area abounds with opportunities including birdwatching at the renowned RSPB Bird Sanctuary at , cliff top walks at the Dunwich National Trust Reserve, music at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Description The Old Manor is a traditional timber framed Suffolk manor house dating from the early 1500s of rendered elevations with pargetting under a pan tiled roof. The property is listed Grade II as being of architectural and historical importance originally being built as a mediaeval hall house.

The accommodation is beautifully presented throughout with a wealth of original features such as pamment floors, mullion windows, exposed timber beams and original brick fireplaces.

The ground floor accommodation provides three principal reception rooms. The drawing room benefits a triple aspect, Tudor panelling, an open fireplace and French doors out to the gardens. The dining room is a handsome, spacious room with an ornate Jotul wood burning stove and wooden floor. The study/studio is accessed off the dining room and has a dual aspect. The sitting room has a Jacobean fireplace, wood burning stove and French doors into the conservatory.

On the side wing, overlooking the front drive, there is a large bright recently fitted bespoke kitchen/breakfast room. Wooden base and wall mounted units with granite worktops, a larder unit and Smeg range. There is also a peninsular unit with wooden worktop. The cloakroom and utility/boot room is off the hall.

The principal bedrooms are on the first floor again displaying much original character together with a particularly fine Jacobean oriel window to the rear.

The master bedroom enjoys its own private en suite bathroom together with walk in wardrobe. Bedroom two has an en-suite shower room; whilst, Bedrooms three and four both have access to the recently refitted family bathroom and a separate shower room.

Within the attic on the second floor are two further bedrooms within the sloping beamed ceilings.

Outside The Old Manor is approached via a gravelled gated drive culminating in a gravel turning circle around a central bed. Lawns sweep either side, studded by mature trees and enclosed by part beech and part conifer hedging. The gardens continue around the property and are, again, enclosed and protected by hedging together with brick walling and fencing.

Within the grounds, currently used as garaging and storage, is a cart lodge of part brick, part block and part weather boarded elevations under a pan tiled roof on which there is lapsed planning consent for conversion to ancillary accommodation.

Directions From Ipswich take the A12 towards Lowestoft. Turn right onto Carlton Road, right onto the B1121. Then left onto Clayhills Road, left again onto Hawthron Road and right onto Pretty Road. The Old Manor will be found on the left hand side.

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

Tenure: Freehold Local Authority: District Council Outgoings: Council Tax Band G Viewing: Strictly by appointment with Savills

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