Mock Beggar Hall East Tuddenham | Norfolk Mock Beggar Hall East Tuddenham | Norfolk | NR20 3NF East Dereham 6 miles, Norwich 9 miles, Cambridge 68 miles A fine Grade II Listed country house set within attractive grounds including parkland, a range of traditional outbuildings, tennis court and separate holiday cottage Reception hall | Kitchen/breakfast room with Aga | Butler’s pantry | Dining room | Family room | Drawing room | Study Utility/ Laundry | Cloakroom | Cellar First floor: 4 bedrooms (2 en suite) | Family bathroom Box room/Study Second floor: 2 Bedrooms | Attic rooms Holiday Cottage “The Stables” comprising: Open plan kitchen/living/sitting area | 3 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms Shower room A range of traditional outbuildings | Listed dovecot | Barn with potential for conversion Hard tennis court Beautiful gardens and grounds comprising: Driveway in parkland setting | Formal gardens with water feature | Woodland with paths | Wildlife pond About 6.7 acres Mock Beggar Hall Dating from the early 17th century, Mock Beggar Hall is a fine The reception hall also leads into the wonderfully light listed country house of English bond brickwork under a black kitchen/breakfast room which has an oil-fired Aga, a well-fitted and red pantiled roof. The property displays many of the kitchen with granite work surfaces and a south facing aspect features of its Jacobean origins including timber mullion and looking out over the gardens and courtyard. A further door transom windows, many with working shutters, across the leads through into a rear hallway where there is access into the principal eastern elevation, together with crow stepped gable utility/laundry and family room which has a feature bread oven ends connected by battlements. The house is also mentioned and a multi-fuel stove. in Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s Authoritative Guide “Buildings of England”. There are three separate staircases which lead up onto the first floor of the house. The main fine Victorian staircase built in a The interesting and unusual name, Mock Beggar Hall, is Jacobean style, leads up from the reception hall onto a central thought originally to have meant “a grand, ostentatious house, landing which gives access into the three main bedrooms, two where no hospitality is afforded, neither is any charity given”! of which are en suite and have fitted wardrobes. All of the bedrooms are of good dimensions and natural light. A further The current owners have carried out a series of updates and room which could make a first floor study, provides access to renovations to the house and landscaped formal areas of a winding staircase, which leads down into the garden and converted the Old Stables into an idyllic holiday kitchen/breakfast room and up to the second floor where there cottage. The house offers light and airy, well-proportioned are further bedrooms and attic rooms. family accommodation, with excellent ceiling heights, arranged principally over two storeys with further attic accommodation A further staircase leads up from the family room, into a further on the second floor which offers scope to create more bedroom which has built in wardrobes. bedrooms. There is a central reception hall which leads into three beautiful reception rooms with fine marble fireplaces in the drawing and dining rooms. The drawing room has superb dimensions, a double aspect; facing south and east and a wood burning stove. The study is at front of the house with book shelving and an east facing aspect. Situation Mock Beggar Hall is approached across its own grounds from the Local shopping facilities are available at Mattishall (about 2.5 miles to The market towns of East Dereham (6 miles to the west) and east, where the driveway passes through a parkland setting amongst the west). The A47, Norwich Southern Bypass, is about 2 miles to Wymondham (7 miles to the south) provide a good range of local open countryside about half a mile south of the small village of East the north providing good access to Norwich (about 9 miles to the amenities and Wymondham has a regular train service to Cambridge Tuddenham. east) with the A146, A140 and the A11 opening onto the A14 and the (60 minutes). Norwich has a comprehensive range of commercial, extensive motorway network of The Midlands. entertainment, shopping, cultural and educational amenities, a railway station with a regular service to London Liverpool Street (110 minutes) and an expanding airport providing for domestic and internal flights. Mock Beggar Hall, East Tuddenham GROSS INTERNAL FLOOR AREA 446.5 SQ METRES 4806 SQ FT (EXCLUDES RESTRICTED HEAD HEIGHT & VOID) Drawing Room Cellar Bedroom Bedroom Attic Room 8.72 (28'7) max 3.76 (12'4) Up 5.59 (18'4) min 4.01 (13'2) 5.64 (18'6) max x 4.24 (13'11) max x 3.45 (11'4) x 4.24 (13'11) Up x 3.25 (10'8) x 3.05 (10') Up Cellar 3.89 (12'9) x 2.13 ('7) Void Dining Room Bedroom Attic Room 6.07 (19'11) 6.12 (20'1) max LOWER GROUND FLOOR 7.21 (23'8) Down Down x 4.27 (14') x 4.27 (14') x 3.20 (10'6) Butlers Pantry 2.72 (8'11) x 2.24 (7'4) Family Room 5.44 (17'10) max x 4.52 (14'10) max Down Kitchen / Reception Breakfast Room Bedroom Study Up Bedroom Hall 4.85 (15'11) max 5.03 (16'6) max Bedroom 3.76 (12'4) 4.24 (13'11) 4.62 (15'2) max x 3.76 (12'4) into bay x 4.55 (14'11) max Utility 5.54 (18'2) x 3.02 (9'11) x 2.74 (9') x 4.27 (14') Down Down 4.52 (14'10) x 3.28 (10'9) x 2.11 (6'11) Up Up SECOND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR GROUND FLOOR Denotes restricted head height Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of the floor plan contained here, measurements of doors, windows and rooms are approximate and no responsibility is taken for any error, omission or misstatement. These plans are for representation purposes only as defined by RICS Code of Measuring Practice and should be used as such by any prospective purchaser. Specifically no guarantee is given on the total square footage of the property if quoted on this plan. Any figure given is for initial guidance only and should not be relied on as a basis of valuation. Copyright nichecom.co.uk 2014 Produced for Strutt & Parker REF : 564250 Mock Beggar Hall, East Tuddenham OUTBUILDING3 GROSS INTERNAL FLOOR AREA 241.4 SQ METRES 2599 SQ FT Bedroom 4.55 (14'11) x 3.33 (10'11) Storage 6.32 (20'9) x 3.10 (10'2) Bedroom 3.35 (11') x 2.95 (9'8) Barn 16.24 (53'3) max Kitchen / x 9.60 (31'6) max Sitting Room 7.26 (23'10) max x 4.62 (15'2) max Storage 5.56 (18'3) x 3.10 (10'2) Bedroom 3.40 (11'2) x 2.59 (8'6) BARN THE COTTAGE Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of the floor plan contained here, measurements of doors, windows and rooms are approximate and no responsibility is taken for any error, omission or misstatement. These plans are for representation purposes only as defined by RICS Code of Measuring Practice and should be used as such by any prospective purchaser. Specifically no guarantee is given on the total square footage of the property if quoted on this plan. Any figure given is for initial guidance only and should not be relied on as a basis of valuation. Copyright nichecom.co.uk 2014 Produced for Strutt & Parker REF : 564250 Outbuildings Gardens and Grounds The outbuildings are arranged along the southern boundary, Mock Beggar Hall stands in mature grounds and parkland extending accessible via a secondary drive. The traditional range is built to about 6.7 acres set in open countryside. The gravel drive at the principally of red brick elevations under a pan tiled roof. An entrance splits either side of central pond and the drives then unconverted 2-storey barn with a brick and flint walled enclosed proceed through open grassland interspersed with a variety of yard, offers further potential and provides fantastic further space to mature specimen trees including oak. One drive leads to the principal be utilised to suit the occupier. house and the other leads to the outbuildings. Part of the single storey range originally and known as “The The grounds extend behind the house, to the west, displaying Stables”, has been converted into a well fitted holiday cottage which beautifully designed formal gardens with a gravel path, central raised comprises an open-plan kitchen/sitting/dining room, three bedrooms pond and two vegetable/ fruit gardens with some delightful box and a wet room style shower room and bathroom. The cottage has hedging. Further west, the grounds open again onto an expanse of its own gated gravelled parking area and outside space. The listed grass incorporating an ornamental nature pond with central island Dovecote is attached to The Stables and there is further unconverted backed by light woodland. Adjacent to the outbuildings is a well single storey outbuildings which provide excellent garden, machinery maintained hard tennis court backing directly onto open countryside. and wood storage. The Stables Cottage General Services Mains water and electricity. Biomass boiler and separate oil-fired boiler central heating. There is also pumped bore water (on field) for garden use stored in a tank in the dovecot. Council Tax Band G Business Rates The Stables holiday cottage is registered for business rates Local Authority Breckland District Council (T: 01362 655333) Fixtures and fittings Unless specifically mentioned in these particulars, all fixtures and fittings are excluded from the sale of the freehold interest.