6 bedroom detached house

Carlton House offers an attractive central core of residential dwellings and buildings comprising a sizeable farmhouse, an exceptional residential barn conversion, a cottage and a range of buildings.

The three residential properties and the buildings are situated at the head of a surfaced drive about 150m from the minor road called Annis Hill, with ample parking and yards. The large surfaced arean offers an all year equestrian training facilitiy and the land is to both pasture, a polo pitch and arable cultivation.

Over recent years, Carlton House has provided the base for a Polo Club. The facilities would allow this to continue but the buildings and land offer great flexibility as to future use so Carlton House could suit many alternatives.

Lot 1 - Carlton Farmhouse, Barn, Cottage, Buildings and land (About 60.75 acres (24.58ha)

Carlton Farmhouse is listed Grade II and believed to date from the 16th Century with later additions made in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. The farmhouse has four reception rooms, an Aga kitchen and six bedrooms.

Carlton House Barn is a large traditional building which, following a conversion in 2006 now provides spacious family accommodation as an annexe to the farmhouse. It comprises two reception rooms, Aga kitchen and three bedrooms.

Carlton House Cottage is believed to date from the early part of the 20th Century and has two reception rooms and three bedrooms.

The Cart Lodge provides garaging, a store room, shower room and office with four interconnecting rooms above.

The considerable collection of farm buildings provide excellent equestrian facilities and general storage.

The land which extends to about 60.75 acres (24.58 ha), is generall level but with a slight fall to the north. The land is laid to grass and offers grazing as well as an established polo pitch.

Lot 2 - Arable land, about 18.47 acres
Comprising an easily managed field to the north of Carlton House, the soils are of the Hanslope Series, boulder clay and this particular field has given some exceptional crop yields in recent years, notably 14 tonnes/hectare (5.6 tonnes/acre) of winter wheat in harvest 2022.

Carlton House is an exceptional small rural estate situated at Mettingham on the Suffolk Norfolk border with easy access to local towns including Bungay, Beccles and Halesworth, with Southwold being on the Heritage Coast a little way away.

Norwich has a full range of facilities as well as an airport and is about 15 miles to the north. Regular train services to London's Liverpool Street Station are found at Halesworth and Diss.

Local schools include Bungay Primary and High, St Felix School at Southwold, Framlingham College, Greshams and Norwich School and Norwich Girls High School.