Ivy House West Drove South | | | PE14 7RA MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE

‘A sumptuous home full of decorative features And a rural oasis for equine creatures’

• An Outstanding Well Presented Double Bay Victorian Former Farmhouse • Approximately 5 Acres of Gardens, Grounds and Post & Rail Paddocks • Located In Norfolk on the border with Cambridgeshire, Approached Down a Treelined Avenue • Offering Five Reception Rooms Plus an Orangery, Five Bedrooms, Two En Suites & a Family Bathroom • Equestrian Facilities Consisting Yard, Six Stables, Tack Room, Feed Room, Hay Barn, Tractor Shed and Outdoor Rubber Manege • Former Coach House Consisting of One Bedroom Annex and an Attached Indoor Swim Spa Pool • Double Garage with Office / Gym Above, Three Open Bay Carports and Carriage Barn • The Main House extends to 3437 sq. ft. • The Coach House extends to 914 sq. ft. Just outside the little village of Walpole Highway and approached up a tree-lined gravelled drive flanked by paddocks, you arrive at a good-looking, double-fronted Victorian property in pale yellow brick. With attractive outbuildings on both sides, and further mature trees and hawthorn hedging forming a charming backdrop - and with everything in immaculate condition - you realise this is no ordinary place.

Rural Paradise Ivy House stands on about a five acre plot surrounded by open fields on the edge of West Norfolk. Not only are there several outbuildings including garaging, a stable block, a groom’s cottage and an indoor pool, it also has a beautiful and private, sheltered garden, and has been a much-loved family home for the last nineteen years. “We came here in 1999,” says the owner, “and the drive was just a mud track up to the house. We planted the mixture of trees down the drive as soon as we came here; there are oaks, willows, acers, beech – all chosen to be horse-friendly. We removed some ugly leylandii and also planted the thick hawthorn hedging around the paddocks.” It is surprising how mature everything looks; the owners have certainly managed to create their own little piece of rural paradise. We replaced the entire windows in the house which are all double-glazed” Farrow’s Cream is the Farrow & Ball colour on the woodwork throughout the downstairs, and the wallpapers are all recent designs by Zoffany” No Expense Spared dining table easily seats twelve, over which hangs their It is obvious as soon as you walk into the hallway, that no sparkling crystal chandelier, on a dimmer switch. expense has been spared when decorating this solid and sumptuous Victorian home. Built in 1879 by a George Moving on through the hall you enter an inner hall with pale Edward Russell, the owners’ have a black and white rustic stone look alike flags, which adjoins a second sitting photograph of the owner and builder standing in front room or ‘snug’. A wide opening is hung with the owners’ of the house, hanging on the wall. Ceilings are high and heavy curtains, and a cast iron log-burner stands in a brick feature central roses and deep cornicing. Throughout, the fireplace. “The snug is wonderfully cosy in winter, and you walls are papered in the latest exquisite Zoffany papers, can see the fire roaring in the grate from the garden room,” complemented by Farrow & Ball paint, creating an extremely enthuses the owner. French doors lead through at the side rich and luxurious environment. The owner has a wonderful to the garden room, or you can step into another little snug talent for interior decoration and has chosen opulent up some carpeted steps to the right, which was created for wallpapers with expensive interlined curtains to perfectly the owners’ son as his chilling out room. It has a window suit the look. (N.B. Many of the curtains as well as light over the garden to the side, and a brick wall painted by the fittings and some of the furniture will be available under owner in a camouflage design. Underneath there are steps separate negotiation). “Farrow’s Cream is the Farrow & Ball down into a cool cellar with standing height and plenty of colour on the woodwork throughout the downstairs, and room for storing wine! the wallpapers are all recent designs by Zoffany,” attests the owner. “The whole house was re-carpeted only about a Two Sets of Stairs year ago in a special American one called ‘Mohawk’ which is Back on ground level, you find a set of carpeted stairs reconstituted corn-on-the-cob which you just cannot stain which twist up to the rear of the house. “The house whatever you throw at it!” Unlike an image that may come has always had two sets of stairs, and these would have to mind, this high quality wall to wall carpeting is extremely been the servants’,” says the owner. The room we call a thick and soft underfoot! snug would have been their kitchen and their bedrooms would have been at the back of the house.” Moving along Opulent Interior the inner hall and through a pine door, on the right is a Either side of the grand entrance hall with its original timber downstairs cloakroom with a shower cubicle, lavatory and floorboards, decorative old-style cast iron radiator, and corner washbasin. Painted matchboarding is to dado height, ‘Versailles’ wallpaper under a delicate Lincrusta frieze finger- terracotta tiles are laid on the floor, and a window again painted in gold, are the two main reception rooms, both overlooks the garden to the side. large and impressive and enjoying the big bays to the front. They are identical in proportions at over twenty-two feet Top Quality Kitchen long, and mirror each another. The sitting room to the left Directly opposite the cloakroom, a door opens into the is papered in textural Zoffany paper and has two windows fabulous kitchen which the owners have opened up at facing southeast so light pours in. At the far end, the original the far side and added a wonderful garden room. The There are ten chimney breasts with eight fireplaces in the dark grey marble fireplace surrounds an open fire, whilst squarish kitchen has original overhead beams, the ceiling property - all working although we have never needed to use most of them, three reproduction cast iron radiators heat the room. The punctuated with modern downlighters, and a large Racing but it’s lovely that they are there and original” curtains are full, heavy, and tapestry-like with matching Green Aga sits in the old chimney breast. “The Aga is pelmets. “We replaced the entire windows in the house electric programmable with a separate set of controls, and which are all double-glazed,” informs the owner. is brilliant to use. It is like a normal Aga on the right with two hotplates and two ovens below, and the module on the The majestic and very elegant dining room on the other left works like an electric cooker.” Classically-styled timber side has a completely different mood being painted in fitted kitchen units from Harvey Jones hand-painted in ‘Drab’ ‘Carriage Green’ edged in more gold Lincrusta frieze. The line the room with solid oak worktops, whilst a central original white marble fireplace also houses an open fire, island painted in Annie Sloan ‘Olive’, has a granite top. A and underfoot are timber floorboards. The owners’ massive very useful ‘housekeeper’s cupboard’ stands on one side which has lots of shelving behind doors above with an extendable tap, and further wall-mounted and bigger base cupboards below. A large butler units above. Space and plumbing is for a washing sink sits near a southwest window, and there is an machine and tumble dryer under the worktop. integrated Miele dishwasher under the worktops. There is also space, side by side, for the owners’ Luxurious Bedrooms and En Suites American style fridge and freezer. The upstairs of the property is as luxurious as downstairs, if not more so, and has been finished Superb Garden Room with the finest materials and fittings. As you The almost twenty-five feet long garden room is proceed up the carpeted stairs an original tall and open plan with the kitchen, having a continuation narrow stained glass and etched Victorian internal of the stone-like tiles, and was added by the window is a magnificent feature. The owner has owners about thirteen years ago. It has created painted the moulded surround in gold and has a fantastic living/eating/relaxing area which has fitted the back with a mirror and light producing a double doors onto the lovely south-facing terrace stunning effect, and ensuring the bathroom behind outside. “We spend most of our time in here,” is private. The chunky dark-stained pine staircase divulges the owner, who has a farmhouse-style is complemented by the plush soft furnishings, the table at one end and comfy sofas under their Zoffany wallpaper, and the landing’s big window wall-mounted television at the other. “It has been over the front, dressed with the owners’ heavy such a successful addition to the property. It was silk and velvet curtains. It should be noted that made by Town & Country and the roof vents are every window in the property seems to have thermostatically controlled. The frames were very a wonderful view of the surrounding grounds, recently re-painted in Marston and Langinger whether the pretty garden or the paddocks and ‘Drab’.” Top of the range French Pinoleum pleated mature trees. blinds completely clad the windows both in the pitched glass roof and around the sides, partially A door from the spacious landing leads into the The Aga is electric programmable with a separate set of controls, and is brilliant to use. allowing light through but helping keep the room splendid master bedroom to which, only three It is like a normal Aga on the right with two hotplates and two ovens below, and the module on cool in the summer heat. (These may be available years ago, the owners added the stylish and the left works like an electric cooker” under separate negotiation.) They give a lovely commodious en suite. The dual aspect bedroom colonial feel as if you’re in some hot foreign clime. is large with a window over the front drive and paddock and two further windows overlooking Ample Utility Areas the grounds to the side. As with downstairs, the Returning to the inner hall and continuing to ceiling is high, featuring deep cornicing and a the back of the property, you find a study with central rose from which hangs another of the a window over the side garden, a chunky timber owners’ chandeliers, and a modest bedroom built-in desk along the back wall and terracotta fireplace nestles in between the pair of windows. tiles underfoot. Beyond this, through a cottage- The owners’ furniture, so befitting with the style style door there is a terracotta quarry-tiled room of the property, may be available separately: which the owners call the dog-boot room. It is a a bateau-lit co-ordinates with His and Hers light and spacious room where the owners’ dog mahogany Victorian armoires which provide ample bed sits conveniently in the old chimney breast, room for clothes and accessories. The particularly and another Harvey Jones built-in cupboard is special wallpaper in this room has beads within it in the recess to the left. Doors from here lead giving it a sparkling quality which catches the light to the outside to the left, and into a utility room and tricks the eye. to the right. This area has a stable-door opening onto the side garden and more Harvey Jones Stepping down into the en suite you are in for a fitted units incorporating a double butler sink treat. With a roof lantern where tradition meets We spend most of our time in the garden room; it has been such a successful addition to the property. It was made by Town & Country and the roof vents are thermostatically controlled. The frames were very recently re-painted in Marston and Langinger ‘Drab’” contemporary, and a window over the garden to the “The guest en suite used to be the sixth bedroom side, the bathroom is flooded with natural light. The but we decided five bedrooms was ample for our Tile Shop at nearby Wiggenhall St. Germans provided needs and so created this well-appointed en suite,” the beautiful tumbled travertine floor and wall tiles in says the owner. With an amazing glittering wallpaper ‘Angolia’ mixed with smaller fascinating ‘Tokyo Mosaic’. that looks like crushed glass on the far wall, the The Albion double-ended slipper bath is designed capacious room has porcelain imitation marble floor to look like cast iron but is made of a material to tiles with underfloor heating run on electricity which withhold the heat, whilst a wall of contemporary also controls the radiator, a high ceiling and central units made by Ellis contain a pair of ceramic basins rose from which hangs the owners’ chandelier, with with mirrors over, and a lavatory, and provide lots of cornicing and picture rail. The traditional-style suite storage. Heating is electric under-floor. includes a cast iron roll-top bath with ball-and-claw feet, a lavatory with high-level cistern and a pedestal No Less Than Ten Fireplaces! washbasin. “It’s a Jack-and-Jill bathroom,” states the From the landing to the other side, the bedroom at owner, “as there is a door onto the back stairs as well.” the front is dual aspect and features a little fireplace in the corner. The adjacent bedroom has a similar The Garden and Annex fireplace directly on the other side, sharing the same Stepping outside from the garden room you find chimney. The owner declares, “There are ten chimney yourself on a spacious, sun-drenched terrace, breasts with eight fireplaces in the property - all surrounded by colourful roses, shrubs and perennials. working although we have never needed to use most This extremely sheltered part of the garden where of them, but it’s lovely that they are there and original.” a lawn stretches past the original Victorian coaching stables and down to the modern-day stable block, is Further down the landing towards the back of the a haven of peace and tranquillity, the perfect place for house, the owners’ son’s bedroom has two built-in either relaxing in the sun or entertaining visitors in the overlooks one of the paddocks and manege. wardrobes, one of which accommodates the hot summer. A small heated indoor pool is located in the water tank, a fireplace with timber surround, and a old coaching stables accessed through double-glazed The Outbuildings and Paddocks window over the garden to the southeast. Yet another timber-framed French doors with pretty semi-circular The stabling consists of a long, angled row of loose boxes divided in the middle by a good-sized double bedroom, one wall features a windows behind, and rooflights above. A room with a roofed area for washing down and shoeing. All presented in exceptionally good order monochrome map of the world, and the chimney lavatory and washbasin is adjacent to the pump room and re-roofed about two years ago in red tiles, look alike Onduline, to one side are breast above the fireplace displays one of the owners’ with the oil-fired boiler, and an open, tiled shower three stables whose doors happily face the garden and house, and to the other is a television screens. stands in a far corner. The pool is insulated plastic stallion box, and two foaling boxes with a feed room sandwiched in between, and a hay with a mosaic border, and the surround is blue anti- store at the far end. The tack room is concealed and very secure adjoining a tractor Opposite, a step up takes you into a bathroom with slip rubaroc floor. “The pool has a swim-spa at one shed which has a roller-shutter metal door in the remains of the old pantile-roofed a big walk-in shower, lavatory and pedestal washbasin. end where you can exercise against a current, and a carriage shed. The room is clad in travertine tiles and has a window submerged seating area with Jacuzzi at the other, great to the side. for parties!” enthuses the owner. The four separate paddocks are all beautifully enclosed by post and rail fencing with wide metal gates. One is to the front of the house and has charming curved fencing Striking Zoffany Wallpaper Adjoining this but reached through a door from the also bounded by hedging and next to a large, sunken pond. “The pond is naturally fed Bedroom two, the main guest room, is at the back drive on the other side, is the groom’s cottage. This from the drain and is well-stocked with mirror carp and goldfish, and my neighbour’s of the house and benefits windows over the garden is a completely self-contained annex comprising a ducks seem to have taken up residence here! It provides interest for the horses from to the southeast and the southwest. Again, most kitchen, hallway, sitting room, double bedroom and the stabling or paddock,” attests the owner. Beyond the pond, a much larger than the exquisitely decorated in a neutral colour scheme bathroom. “The joy of the groom’s cottage is that it is standard 20 x 40 metres floodlit manege with rubber topping is excellent for jumping featuring Farrow & Ball ‘Shaded White’ paint, Laura so private for everyone: you can’t see the house from practice. Beside this stands a secure tractor shed with a tractor (which may be available Ashley grey silk-mix curtains, an original simple the cottage nor vice versa; and one of the windows separately) useful for cutting the grass and for levelling the manege. The other three fireplace with black tiled hearth and built-in wardrobe, from the kitchen looks directly onto the stables,” paddocks are on the far side of the driveway, one is twice the size of the other two, and the superb en suite is down a step to one side. declares the owner. The other kitchen window two piggeries are located in a corner. The Coach House The Coach House Various other aspects of the property outside include an attractive, open-fronted, three-bay cart-lodge with oak front and pantile roof adjoining a lorry barn, which was only built a few years ago. Opposite this is a brick-built, timber-clad, double-garage - currently used for storage - with two metal doors, and an external metal staircase up to a room above, at present set out as a gym. This has a window over the paddocks, and a separate lavatory and washbasin just waiting for the final plumbing connection. In the summer heat this spacious room is remarkably cool.

Superb Location for Competitions A substantial timber climbing frame is situated in the garden to the side of the house, along with a vegetable patch with raised beds, and a greenhouse with paths leading to the garage. The owner tells me: “There is a shooting hyde on the hedge boundary, really just entertainment for kids – and last but not least, there is a fantastic alarm system for the entire property. It is dual infra-red beam with sensors which detect any movement from any aspect. Finally, I must stress what a superb position we are in here for competing. The A47 is literally within about three minutes giving great access to major road links in all directions.”

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Wisbech Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, for students aged 11 to 18. Founded by the Wisbech Guild of the Holy Trinity in 1379, it is one of the oldest schools in the country. Entry to the senior school at age 11 is based on a competitive examination. Pupils are also admitted at later stages, including sixth form. The majority of students go on to higher education following the completion of their A-levels at the end of Year Thirteen. The Wisbech Grammar School Foundation, which assists with bursaries, is a registered charity. Roughly a third of pupils receive support in this way. Former pupils are known as “Old Grammarians”, and the school has produced a number of famous alumni. Location Postcode for satellite navigation: PE14 7RA

On The Doorstep... How Far Is It To... Directions Conveniently situated between the market towns of Wisbech Walpole Highway lies to the south of the route of the A47 From King’s Lynn, take the A47 towards . At the (4 miles) and Kings Lynn (9.5 miles), Walpole Highway is ideally between Peterborough and King’s Lynn. Wisbech - the roundabout take the first exit onto Pullover Road, signposted placed for easy access to the local amenities. The neighbouring ‘Capital of the Fens’ - is around 4 miles to the south-west, to Wisbech. After approx. 5 miles take the exit towards village of Walpole St Andrew has a Farm and Butcher’s Shop offering shops and supermarkets, swimming pool and sports . At the T junction turn left onto Church and hosts a popular annual steam rally and country fair attracting facilities, a theatre and secondary schools including the rated Road and then right onto Main Road. Stay on this road for 400 exhibitors. Peckover House and Gardens, a lovely Georgian Wisbech Grammar School. The Hanseatic town of King’s approx. 2 miles and then turn left onto West Drove South brick town house with a charming two acre Victorian walled Lynn with its excellent shopping and leisure facilities located (before crossing the flyover). After a few hundred yards turn garden is just 4 miles away and in nearby Kings Lynn the Town 9 mile northeast. King’s Lynn also offers regular rail service to left to stay on West Drove South and after approx. half a mile House Museum of Lynn Life is a fascinating place set in a 19th Cambridge and London. Following on from here, the popular Ivy House will be found to the right, easily recognisable with its century townhouse. coastline is less than an hour away and offers an long tree lined drive. abundance of pretty coastal villages to explore.

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