A spacious detached family home offering excellent scope and potential for improvement, well located close to the centre of this much sought after village, in private grounds of around 0.25 of an acre (sts).

Main entrance porch and hallway, sitting room, dining room, conservatory, study, kitchen/breakfast room, side porch entrance, utility/boiler room and a garden room.

Spacious first floor landing, master bedroom with en-suite shower room, three further double bedrooms and a family shower room.

Gated driveway & parking, double garage, enclosed front and rear gardens, swimming pool & summer house and an outside/gardeners’ toilet & sheds.

In all around 0.25 of an acre (sts)

THE PROPERTY
The Limes is a much-loved family home which the current owners have lived in for over 50 years. It is believed to date back to around 1972, substantially built with good solid brick internal walls and charmingly has retained many of the original period features of that era, including some kitchen units, the original serving hatch between the kitchen and the dining room and the external feature shutters and canopy shade, to the front of the house. The current owners have recently upgraded the electric consumer unit, re-lined the swimming pool and replaced the pump and replaced the 2500 litre oil storage tank, so a buyer can be reassured that these elements are in order but accept that there are areas of the property that will benefit from updating and modernisation, such as the current clean and tidy but dated kitchen, which if the more open plan style of living is preferred, could be knocked through, with Building Regs consent to the dining room. The property also enjoys oil fired radiator central heating and in the main, benefits from either double or secondary glazed windows.

The accommodation, in brief, comprises a glazed front door with side screen window to the porch, with a further glazed door and side screen window opening to the central, spacious entrance hallway. This opens to the principal rooms, being the sitting room, with an open fireplace with stone mantle, surround and hearth. There are secondary glazed French doors leading through to the double-glazed conservatory, which opens to the rear garden and double doors also connecting to the dining room. The dining room has a double-glazed window overlooking the rear garden, a serving hatch to the kitchen and glazed-double doors to the hallway. The study is well proportioned as a home office and benefits from a wall of fitted shelving and a key cupboard. There is a cloakroom with fully tiled walls, low flush wc and wall mounted wash basin. The kitchen/breakfast room benefits from a comprehensive range of base and wall mounted units, roll-top worksurface with 4 ring electric hob and 1½ bowl sink unit, built-in double oven and grill and space below the counter for a larder fridge. The excellent, large utility/boot room that connects the house to the double garage, can also be accessed from the drive via the side porch and features further base and wall mounted units, a wall mounted oil-fired boiler and wash basin. The ceiling is timber clad and there are exposed brick walls and a door and window to the flat roofed ‘garden room’ to the rear.

On the first floor there are four comfortable double bedrooms all benefiting from built-in wardrobe and storage cupboards, with the master bedroom also benefiting from an en-suite shower room. The family shower room has space for a bath where the current corner shower cubicle and bidet stand, a low flush wc and pedestal wash hand basin.

OUTSIDE
The property is approached through high brick pillared gate posts, leading over the tarmac drive and parking area to the attached double garage. The front garden is laid to lawn with flower and shrub beds and borders and is hedge and fence enclosed. The rear garden, which benefits from a high degree of privacy, is mainly laid to lawn with shrub and flower beds and borders and abutting the rear of the house is a spacious paved terrace with a water feature pond, making an ideal alfresco dining area. There is an outdoor swimming pool (approx 7.2m x 3.6m, which has a deep and shallow end and a diving board). There is a good selection of shrubs and trees to the rear border and a gravel path along the fence line, connecting the summer house, in one corner of the garden to the shed and fenced working/store area, in the other. To the rear of the garage there is a roofed potting/store area and an attached outside loo. There is double gated access to the side.

LOCATION
The Limes is well positioned in this peaceful edge of village setting, with a view to the front across fields, yet only a short walk from the centre of the village. Woolpit has a thriving and well-appointed community and benefits from a primary school, village stores, post office, doctors’ surgery, two village pubs/restaurants and lies just 8 miles to the east of Bury St Edmunds and 6 miles to the west of Stowmarket.

Woolpit is just south, with exceptionally easy access to the A14, leading to Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket and beyond to Cambridge. The historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds offers an appealing and comprehensive range of amenities, 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.