A charming and exceptionally versatile five-bedroom detached home, peacefully positioned in a semi-rural setting on the southern village outskirts, with annexe option and grounds of about 1 acre.

Main central hallway, Aga kitchen with pantry, utility/boiler room, drawing/dining room, study ante room, bedroom, sitting room and conservatory. First floor master bedroom with en-suite bath/shower room, guest bedroom, landing room and family bathroom.

LINKED ANNEXE ACCOMMODATION - Hall from the main hall, sitting/dining room, kitchen, ground floor bathroom and two first floor bedrooms.

Gravelled driveway, parking & double garage, gardens, pond, green house & summer house. In all around 1 acre (sts)

THE PROPERTY
Melbury is a much loved ‘extended family’ home which is believed to date back to around the 19th century, with delightful period character features such as exposed timber wall studwork, beams and timbers, a fireplace with inset log-burning stove and is principally timber framed with rendered elevations, under clay pantile roofs. The property has been extended, in keeping with the original, and because, whilst it enjoys the traditional charm, the property is not restricted by any Grade Listing, it also benefits from double glazing to many of the windows and doors, and affords further scope to improve if necessary. The current owners have enjoyed living here for over 20 years and accept that there are areas of the property that could benefit from updating and modernisation, such as the current attached Annexe area of the house being heated by night storage heaters, that could be upgraded to a more efficient modern system.

The property enjoys an excellent, picturesque, semi-rural setting, backing onto countryside with views to the rear, yet is only 0.5 miles from the centre of Woolpit Village, about 1 mile from the A14.

The accommodation, in brief, comprises a front door leading into the central connecting hallway, which opens to the 3-bedroom cottage to the left and through a door to the 2-bedroom current annexe accommodation to the right, with double glazed sliding doors opening to the rear terrace and back garden. The cottage affords a ground floor bedroom/study, a kitchen with a characterful low (circa 5’10’’ to the bottom of the beams) exposed timbers ceiling with semi vaulted area to the garden end, Oil fired Aga range cooker, base and wall mounted kitchen units with dark granite work surfaces, a useful pantry store and double-glazed French doors opening to the garden at the side. Access leads through the inner hall, with stars to the first floor, to the Drawing/Dining room at the front of the house which, with higher ceilings, benefits from more exposed timbers, the fireplace, another set of French doors to the garden and an ante room Home Office set to the rear of the fireplace with a ‘porthole’ window to the front. There is a Sitting Room to the rear of the Kitchen, through which there is double glazed sliding door access to the Conservatory beyond. The Utility/Boiler Room had a new oil-fired Grant boiler fitted recently and the chimney above is benefiting from a rebuild. There are two comfortable first floor bedrooms, a lovely en-suite with clawfoot bath with separate shower to the master bedroom, a good versatile landing room and a family bathroom off a half landing.

The spacious attached annexe can easily be utilised as main house accommodation if preferred and currently affords a large ‘open plan style’ sitting/dining room with a second, modern, fitted kitchen off this room to the rear, a ground floor ‘dated’ bathroom off the hall, which has stairs up to the two comfortable first floor bedrooms.

OUTSIDE
The property is approached over a gravelled drive that leads up to the spacious parking and turning area and the front of the detached double garage.

LOCATION
Melbury is well positioned in this peaceful semi-rural setting in a small cluster of beautiful homes and backing onto rolling countryside with views to the rear. Standing on the outskirts Woolpit, within walking distance of the amenities, just south of the A14, it has easy access to nearby Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket and beyond to Cambridge. The village is a thriving and well-appointed community, which benefits from a primary school, village stores and post office, a doctors’ surgery, two village pubs/restaurant and lies just 8 miles to the east of Bury St Edmunds and 6 miles to the west of Stowmarket. Appealing and comprehensive facilities can be found in the fine cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds, which offers an excellent range of shopping and amenity facilities, including the Arc shopping centre, a diverse range of restaurants and the acclaimed Georgian Theatre Royal. There is excellent schooling in both the private and public sectors and a range of swimming pools, health clubs and golf clubs.