4 bedroom detached house

Puddleduck Cottage is a beautifully presented family home offering light-filled, flexible accommodation arranged over two floors, sensitively modernised to combine the amenities of modern living with character features throughout, including sash windows and exposed beams. The ground floor accommodation flows from a gable end porch with boot room and welcoming wooden-floored reception hall and comprises a generous sitting room with French doors to the terrace and a well-proportioned family room with feature open fireplace. There is also a large dual aspect kitchen/breakfast room which is open plan to the dining area with oak flooring, a range of wall and base units including a large central island and breakfast bar, wooden worktops, a range cooker and a double Belfast sink. The room also benefits from bi-fold doors to the garden terrace. The ground floor accommodation is completed by what is presently used as a generous double bedroom with feature fireplace, suitable for use as an additional reception room, if required.

On the first floor, a large landing with feature alcove seating area leads to a spacious principal bedroom with built-in storage and a modern en suite shower room, two further well-proportioned double bedrooms, a modern family bathroom and a useful front aspect study/further bedroom.

Local Authority: Mid Suffolk
Services: Oil-fired central heating. Private drainage (unknown as to whether it complies with the latest regulations). All other mains services are connected.
Council Tax: Tax Band F

The property sits on the northern fringe of Stonham Aspal, a village positioned well for communication links via the A1120 and the A140 Ipswich/Norwich trunk routes. The village offers a range of day-to-day amenities including a food outlet, popular primary school and leisure and retail facility with fishing lakes, crazy golf, beauty salon, clothes shops and restaurants. The nearby larger village of Debenham benefits from a thriving local High Street with numerous independent shops including a butchers, supermarket, Post Office, pharmacy, GP surgery, vets, pub, cafés and a leisure centre. More extensive amenities are available in Stowmarket and Ipswich. Recreational facilities in the wider area include sailing and fishing on the estuaries of the Deben, Orwell and Alde together with golf courses at Ufford, Ipswich and Aldeburgh.

Communications links are excellent: the nearby A14 offers easy access to the A12, and wider motorway network, Ipswich and the Suffolk Heritage Coast, with regular mainline train services running from Stowmarket to London Liverpool Street.

The area offers an excellent selection of state schooling including Stonham Aspal C of E VA Primary School in the village and highly-regarded Debenham High School together with a range of noted independent schools including Framlingham College and Prep school, and Woodbridge.

The property is approached over a gravelled side driveway offering space for the parking of multiple vehicles. The sizeable garden features an expanse of level lawn bordered by mature shrubs and trees with a large wraparound block-paved terrace accessible from the kitchen and sitting room, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining; the whole enjoying far-reaching views over neighbouring stock-fenced farmland and surrounding countryside.

The property also benefits from a large weather boarded outbuilding comprising a garage, store and double workshop; subject to the necessary consents could potentially be convert to ancillary accommodation or home office.