Benton End House HADLEIGH 8 IPSWICH 8

Benton End House Distances Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk Hadleigh 1 mile, Manningtree 9 miles (Liverpool Street Station from 55 minutes), Ipswich 10 miles (Liverpool Street Station IMPRESSIVE 16TH CENTURY COUNTRY HOUSE from 65 minutes) 13 miles (Liverpool Street Station from 50 minutes) OVERLOOKING THE BRETT VALLEY (All mileages and times are approximate) WITH COTTAGE

Accommodation Summary • 7 bedrooms • 3 bathrooms • Entrance hall • Drawing room • Dining room • Sitting room • Music room • Study • Kitchen/breakfast room • Shower room/utility room • Cellar • The Coach House: reception room, kitchen, shower room, 2 bedrooms • Double garage • Walled gardens • About 2.5 acres History A number of owners of Benton End House were of considerable note including clothiers, an MP who signed Charles I’s death warrant, an Olympic medal winner and Adam Buddle, after whom the Buddleia is named. Sir Cedric Morris bought the house from Sir Alfred Sainsbury in 1939 and opened The East Anglian School of Painting & Drawing. Lucien Freud lived there in 1940 and was painted by Cedric Morris in the first floor studio (which is now the master bedroom) and is known to have studied there and worked in the kitchen in her school holidays. Cedric Morris was also a renowned plantsman and bred irises in the old walled garden which were exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show from the late 1940’s - mid 1950’s. In 2015, a local horticulturist exhibited a Cedric Morris collection at the Chelsea Flower Show and was awarded a Gold Medal. Cedric Morris irises still grow in the gardens at Benton End. Situation Benton End House is set at the southern end of Benton Street on the outskirts of the attractive Suffolk market town of Hadleigh, which has a comprehensive selection of shops for every day needs. Manningtree, Colchester and Ipswich have a much wider range of educational and recreational amenities and the commuter can take advantage of the main line train services running to London’s Liverpool Street station. Description Benton End House is a distinguished house dating from the 16th century. The house is reputed to have been designed by Sir Peter Cheyney and is Grade II* listed. It is constructed from timber frame and red brick under pitched peg and slate roofs with 18th century alterations. It is referred to in Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s ‘The Buildings of England’ series. The Tudor and Georgian periods are of exceptional quality with features throughout the house including high moulded beamed ceilings, open fireplaces, panelled rooms, high skirting boards and sash windows. There is a detached self-contained cottage on the far side of the entrance. The majority of the lawned gardens are walled and well stocked with a wide variety of trees and shrubs with the house having elevated views over the Brett Valley. The current owners have undertaken a significant renovation and restoration of the property, sympathetically enhancing Benton End House for modern day living. The accommodation is stunning with high ceilings and of particular note is a spacious Tudor reception hall with a superb moulded beamed ceiling, fully panelled wall, mullion and leaded windows with views over the terrace. The dining room has sash windows with views over the gardens, inglenook fireplace and bread oven and stairs leading down to the cellar and wine cellar with capacity for 1200 bottles. The drawing room, reached via the panelled inner hall, has been extended and is now a substantial reception room with sash windows, working shutters, open fireplace and glazed doors out on to the terrace. The music room is an elegant Outside Georgian room with the family sitting room beyond also Benton End House is approached through an automated 5 bar benefitting from an adjacent Shower Room/Utility room and gate to one side of which is the Coach House. French doors to the front terrace. The drive passes a mature horse chestnut with areas of lawn. The kitchen is a wonderfully light room with mullion windows The southern elevation has a sunken brick terrace with lavender to the front, glazing to the side and French doors to the rear. hedges, Cedric Morris ’s and brick steps which lead to It has an inglenook fireplace (sealed), exposed beamed ceiling the lawned walled gardens. The gardens are interspersed by and wooden base units with granite worktops and a 5 ring a variety of mature specimen trees and shrubs, part of the range cooker. walls are adorned by fig, grape vine, rose, honeysuckle and The first floor is reached via the principal 18th century garryaelliptica. A wide terrace runs along the rear of the house. staircase and gives access to the master bedroom suite which is a The gardens are set on three sides of the house with a spacious room with amazing views across the Brett Valley. It has further area of informal gardens to the east where they are a large en suite bath/shower room and a dressing room. There surrounded by a belt of mature trees including a red maple, are a further 3 double bedrooms and a family bathroom on the rhodedendrons, orange blossom, pear & apple trees, alliums. first floor. The second floor has an additional 3 bedrooms, study and a large bathroom. Services The Coach House Mains electricity, water and gas. Klargester treatment unit. The Coach House has been fully renovated by the current Directions (Postcode IP7 5JR) owners and is constructed from red brick with pitched peg tiled From London proceed north along the A12 bypassing roof. The accommodation comprises a kitchen, wet room, well Colchester and taking a left hand turn on the B1070 towards proportioned reception room with 2 bedrooms on the first Hadleigh, continue along this road passing through the villages floor. There is also an integral double garage and a private back of Holton St Mary and Raydon. The entrance to Benton End garden. House is on the right, just after the Hadleigh town sign and also serves Hadleigh Riding Stables. Approximate gross internal floor area Tenure 616.5 sq m / 6637 sq ft Freehold with vacant possession. (Excludes Restricted Head Height & Includes Annexe & Garage) Viewing For identification purposes only. Not to scale. Strictly by appointment with Savills.

Bedroom Garage 4.75 x 4.32m Access to 5.36 x 4.95m Bedroom Eaves 15'7" x 14'2" 17'7" x 16'3" 4.01 x 3.99m 13'2" x 13'1" Down

Bedroom Up 2.82 x 1.88m Kitchen Up Bedroom

9'3" x 6'2" Down 3.05 x 2.95m 4.80 x 2.95m N 10' x 9'8" Cellar 15'9" x 9'8" 3.56 x 2.41m 11'8" x 7'11" Up

Study/Bedroom Bedroom Reception Room Loft Room Cellar 5.18 x 3.96m 5.18 x 4.57m 4.75 x 4.24m 4.75 x 3.94m 5.36 x 4.42m 17' x 13' 17' x 15' 15'7" x 13'11" 15'7" x 12'11" 17'7" x 14'6"

Lower Ground Floor Second Floor The Coach House The Coach House Ground Floor First Floor

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Kitchen / Down Up Entrance Hall Dining Room Breakfast Room Bedroom 4.75 x 4.62m 5.16 x 4.67m 4.85 x 4.75m 5.11 x 3.30m 15'7" x 15'2" 16'11" x 15'4" 16'9" x 10'10" Drawing Room 15'11" x 15'7" Bedroom Bedroom 8.43 x 3.94m 4.17 x 3.91m 4.88 x 3.91m 27'8" x 12'11" 13'8" x 12'10" 16' x 12'10"

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Dressing Room Denotes restricted Music Room Bedroom 4.98 x 4.72m head height 7.32 x 6.15m 16'4" x 15'6" 24' x 20'2"

Sitting Room 4.98 x 4.39m 16'4" x 14'5" Ground Floor First Floor

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