Homefield NR WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK

A SUBSTANTIAL AND LAVISHLY APPOINTED 8 BEDROOM HOUSE AMIDST MATURE GROUNDS COMPLETE WITH A STUNNING LEISURE COMPLEX AND SPA

Homefield LITTLE BEALINGS, NR WOODBRIDGE SUFFOLK, IP13 6LT

Woodbridge 3 miles, Ipswich 5 miles (London’s Liverpool Street Station 70 mins approx.) Features • A substantial and lavishly appointed 8 bedroom house amidst mature grounds complete with a stunning leisure complex and spa • Approaching 11,000 sq ft of property featuring an impressive flexible use orangery room • 3 Principal reception rooms • Study, kitchen/breakfast room and service rooms including cellar • 8 bedrooms • 7 en suite bath/shower rooms • Cinema/games room • Lutron lighting system • The property has the benefit of an air conditioning system in certain areas. • Interactive Crestron sound and audio system • Amazing leisure complex with indoor pool, linking to external infinity pool and the luxurious spa. Large multi-purpose gymnasium/games room • Mature gardens and grounds • In all about 3.25 acres

The Property

Enjoying a prominent position on the edge of Little Bealings, Homefield is a wonderfully unique property. Dating from the beginning of the 19th Century Regency period, the original house has been comprehensively refurbished and significantly extended by the present owners, to create a high quality home. Extending to nearly 11,000 sq ft of property in total, the beautifully appointed accommodation presents a handsome Georgian facade with a fine columned porticoe front door leading to a central reception hall, at the end of which double doors open to a spectacular multi-purpose orangery living room, with marble tiled flooring and full length bi-fold windows, creating an indoor/outdoor room. There are three further principal reception rooms, plus a generous size study and an impressive fully fitted bespoke kitchen, with extensive granite work surfaces, which in turn links to a series of service rooms.

On the first floor, an impressive 28 ft central landing provides access to six well-proportioned bedrooms, five of which have en suite bath/shower rooms. The impressive staircase continues to an equally spacious second-floor landing, with a magnificent ceiling lantern creating an atrium of light through the centre of the house. In addition to twofurther bedrooms (one of which has an en suite bathroom) double doors open into a multi-purpose games room/at home cinema, complete with ceiling projector, roof balcony and further en suite bathroom with copper clad bath.

The house has many modern features including a computerised controlled LPG central heating system, a state of the art interactive Crestron media system distributing both sound and audio throughout the house, cat 5 wiring throughout and a fully integrated modern security system. There is a programmable Lutron smart lighting system throughout and a three phase electricity connection.

The leisure complex and spa

Beyond a wide sheltered paved terrace to the rear of the house, there is a stunning and highly individual custom-built 3,500 sq ft leisure complex, featuring a heated mirror-backed indoor pool with swimming tunnels linking to an external infinity pool, complete with underwater sitting stools and an external shower. The main pool has a marble tiled surround and a further swim tunnel leading into the spa.

This amazing room is fully tiled with Italian mosaic tiles and the room, with its specialist lighting feature, has a large changing room, sauna room and separate steam room, together with a Jacuzzi with adjacent cold plunge pool.

There is a waterfall shower and clam fountain feature. Words and photographs fail to describe the room adequately and a visit is essential.

Beyond the main pool a concealed mirrored door opens into a gymnasium/ games room with mirror fronted walls. This room has the benefit of air conditioning and also benefits from the multi-media audio and visual entertainment systems. The complex has an independent plant room. Location

Homefield enjoys a prominent position on the edge of Little Bealings. The village, with its top performing primary school, has an active local community and sits amidst the picturesque countryside of the Fynn River Valley. The popular river front town of Woodbridge and the County town of Ipswich, are both easily accessed, some 3 and 5 miles respectively and provide a full range of local shopping and commercial facilities, as well as a wide choice of top performing schools, in both the state and private sectors, catering for all age groups. Recreationally there are numerous golf courses on the edges of both towns and the nearby east coast estuaries provide a variety of water sport opportunities. The region’s main road and rail communication routes are also easily accessed with the A12 and the A14 bypassing both towns and linking to London’s M25, Stansted Airport, as well as Cambridge and the Midlands. Regular main line rail services run from Ipswich Station to London’s Liverpool Street Station in about 70 minutes.

Gardens & Grounds

Two sets of electric gates access a driveway which sweeps through an avenue of cherry trees, beyond a copse of beech and wellingtonia trees to the front of the house and parking areas beyond. The well-maintained grounds are laid mainly to wide lawns, bordered by mixed hedging with a back drop of mature trees and woodland. The house and gardens are lit with external lighting, which together with the flat garden, provide the facility for landing a helicopter. In addition to the range of equipment and general stores which sit beyond the leisure complex, there is also a large wooden summer house.

In all the property extends to about 3.25 acres. Property Information

Services: Mains electricity and water are connected. Private drainage. Diesel generator back up electricity supply. Private well water supply for gardening.

Fixtures & Fittings: Items regarded as fixtures and fittings, including carpets, curtains and light fittings, together with the gymnasium equipment, are all initially excluded from the sale, although certain items may be available by separate negotiation.

Viewing: By appointment with Jackson Stops & Staff. Tel: 01473 218218 or Knight Frank LLP Tel: 0207 861 1782

Postcode: IP13 6LT

Fast Find 55826

Directions

Entering Suffolk on the A12 turn right at the Copdock interchange and proceed on the A14. Continue over the Orwell Bridge and beyond the Nacton interchange. At the next junction re-join the A12 signed to Woodbridge and Lowestoft. Continue beyond the multi roundabouts at Martlesham Heath and turn off just past the large Tesco store at the traffic light controlled roundabout onto the A1214 signed to Kesgrave. After approximately half a mile turn right signed to Little Bealings and Kesgrave Hall. Follow this lane beyond the aforementioned Kesgrave Hall and at the next crossroads proceed straight over. Drop down the hill over the railway level crossing and the gates to Homefield will be found shortly thereafter on the left-hand side.

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N Pool

8' x 5'8 Bedroom Bedroom Changing 7'8 x 7' Room Orangery (2.44m x 1.73m) 24' x 18'10 18'9 x 17'7 (2.34m x 2.13m) 36'6 x 24'10 (7.32m x 5.74m) Boot Room (5.72m x 5.36m) (11.13m x 7.57m) 14'10 x 14' Spa Oce (4.52m x 4.27m) Boiler Room 15'10 x 7'8 17' x 10' (4.83m x 2.34m) (5.18m x 3.05m)

Bedroom Cinema/Games Room 20'11 x 11'3 32'9 x 24' (9.98m x 7.32m) Sitting Room Utility Room 7'8 x 7' Bedroom (6.38m x 3.43m) Steam 20'6 x 7'8 19'3 x 18'8 (2.34m x 2.13m) 19' x 14'2 Room Swim (5.87m x 5.69m) (6.25m x 2.34m) (5.79m x 5.23m) Landing Tunnel 28'5 x 15' Swim (8.38m x 4.57m) Tunnel

Pool 40' x 24' (12.19m x 7.32m) Kitchen/Breakfast Room Dressing Room Plant Room 20'11 x 19'9 16'3 x 5' (4.95m x 1.52m) 9' x 8' 19' x 16' (6.38m x 6.02m) 12'3 x 10' (2.74m x 2.44m) (5.79m x 4.88m) Study (3.73m x 3.05m) 14'5 x 13'2 (4.39m x 4.01m) Hall 37'3 x 8'3 (11.35m x 2.51m) Cellar Sauna Swim 7'4 x 6'4 Tunnel 9' x 7' (2.24m x 1.93m) Bedroom Bedroom (2.74m x 2.13m) Drawing Room Dining Room Bedroom Bedroom 17'2 x 12'10 14'7 x 13'10 19'7 x 13'10 19'11 x 13'11 14'8 x 13'11 13'8 x 13' (5.23m x 3.91m) (4.45m x 4.22m) Dressing Room (6.05m x 4.22m) (6.07m x 4.24m) 8'3 x 4'11 (4.47m x 4.24m) (4.17m x 3.96m) (2.51m x 1.50m) 9'11 x 8'4 (3.02m x 2.54m)

Gym 35' x 21'8 (10.67m x 6.60m)

N Pool

Pool 40' x 24' (12.19m x 7.32m) Kitchen/Breakfast Room Dressing Room Plant Room 20'11 x 19'9 16'3 x 5' (4.95m x 1.52m) 9' x 8' 19' x 16' (6.38m x 6.02m) 12'3 x 10' (2.74m x 2.44m) (5.79m x 4.88m) Study (3.73m x 3.05m) 14'5 x 13'2 (4.39m x 4.01m) Hall 37'3 x 8'3 (11.35m x 2.51m) Sauna Swim 7'4 x 6'4 Tunnel 9' x 7' (2.24m x 1.93m) Bedroom Bedroom (2.74m x 2.13m) Drawing Room Dining Room Bedroom Bedroom 17'2 x 12'10 14'7 x 13'10 19'7 x 13'10 19'11 x 13'11 14'8 x 13'11 13'8 x 13' (5.23m x 3.91m) (4.45m x 4.22m) Dressing Room (6.05m x 4.22m) (6.07m x 4.24m) 8'3 x 4'11 (4.47m x 4.24m) (4.17m x 3.96m) (2.51m x 1.50m) 9'11 x 8'4 (3.02m x 2.54m)

Energy Efficiency Rating

Gym 35' x 21'8 (10.67m x 6.60m)

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