A beautifully presented 3 - 4 bedroom family home with fabulous views. Perfectly located on the edge of a small complex within Melton Hall Park. With separate one bedroom cottage, landscaped garden, garaging and outbuildings. In all about one acre (stms)
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GROUND FLOOR

- Entrance porch/boot room
- Reception hall
- Drawing room
- Kitchen/breakfast room
- Sitting room
- Dining room
- Utility room
- Study
- Back hall and pantry
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FIRST FLOOR

- Galleried landing
- Main bedroom suite with en suite bath/shower room
- Dressing room/bedroom four
- Two further double bedrooms with en suite shower rooms
- Attic storage room
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COTTAGE

- Entrance/boot room
- Kitchen/dining room
- Sitting room
- Double bedroom
- Family bathroom
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OUTSIDE

- Landscaped gardens and south facing terrace
- Gravelled driveway and ample parking
- Storage shed and wood store
- Double garage and store
- Loft studio above garage
- Pergola
- Greenhouse
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DRIVING DISTANCES (approx.)

- Holt (Gresham’s Schools) 5 miles
- Melton Constable 1 mile
- North Norfolk Coast 8 miles
- Norwich ( International airport and mainline trains to London Liverpool Street) 19 miles
- Fakenham 10.5 miles
- King’s Lynn (mainline London King’s Cross 1hr 40 mins) and Cambridge – 32 miles
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SITUATION

Dairy Farm is situated on the Melton Hall estate located in a wonderfully rural spot between Melton Constable and Hindolveston. The house sits in the southwest corner of the Dairy Farm complex and shares a party wall with the neighbouring property.

In the 1980’s the outbuildings and barns were converted to form a unique development of properties that incorporates the original houses. Dairy Farm has the great advantage of being at the end of driveway meaning it is not overlooked and it has wonderful parkland views.

Melton Constable Village was developed in the 1880s as a railway town and was at the junction of four railway routes crossing Norfolk. It is a small village with good independent food shops including butchers, a general store/post office and a garage. The village also has a primary school and a doctor's surgery.

The picturesque market town of Holt is a short drive away and is renowned for its attractive street frontages, Greshams Schools and a wide range of independent shops and boutiques.

There is a buzz in the air as the region enjoys everything on offer from locally sourced butchers, fishmongers and farmers markets to artisan bakers, cool coffee shops, restaurants, delicatessens, up-market farm shops and art galleries.

The town of Fakenham also offers schooling for all ages, medical centres, supermarkets, pubs and restaurants, garages and a cinema. Fakenham is transformed by its weekly market, with a farmer's market monthly and at least twelve race days a year held at Fakenham Racecourse - one of the finest national hunt racecourses in the country.

There are mainline train stations at Norwich (to Liverpool St), Kings Lynn (to Kings Cross) and Downham Market (Kings Lynn line). The cathedral city of Norwich is renowned for its shopping and cultural facilities and also benefits from an international airport.
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DESCRIPTION

The front door opens to an entrance porch/boot room with vaulted ceiling and exposed brickwork, this leads through to the main reception hall with oak flooring, and separate WC leading off.

The drawing room is a large, impressive room with high ceiling, original cornicing and bricked fireplace with wood burning stove. This room was originally the shoot day entertaining room for Melton Constable Hall and it is the perfect social space. There is a side room leading off with an external door to allow direct access to this room, which would have been used on shoot days.

The kitchen/breakfast room has south aspect and lovely views over the garden, it has been recently refitted with a range practically designed paint finished units with quartz worktops and a double Belfast sink. Integrated appliances include an electric Aga with extractor fan, Neff dishwasher and full-size fridge freezer. There is a separate utility room leading off the kitchen with fitted storage, Belfast sink, Meile tumble dryer and Bosch washing machine.

The kitchen is open plan to a fabulous dining room with a vaulted ceiling with glazed atrium and a wall of glass with French doors opening up to the garden and terrace. This room and the kitchen both benefit from pamment tiled flooring with underfloor heating.

On the north side of the kitchen, the sitting/family room is semi open plan too, creating a really sociable family living space, this comfortable room has north aspect, exposed beams and a wood burning stove.

The study is another nicely proportioned room with south aspect and open fireplace and beyond this there is a further small storage room.

Taking the stairs to the first floor, the landing is fully galleried with double aspect and an original cast iron fireplace.

The current vendor has created a main bedroom suite, turning the fourth bedroom into a fully fitted dressing room, however this could be returned to a bedroom is required.

The main bedroom has wonderful views over the garden and parkland from large south and west facing windows, this is a very spacious room with a lovely high ceiling. The en suite has been fully refitted with a very stylish large contemporary shower, bath, vanity unit and heated towel rail.

There are two further double bedrooms on this floor, and both have en suite shower rooms.

A further set of stairs lead up to an attic room with restricted head space.

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THE COTTAGE

There is a small cottage in the garden which offers perfect annexe or holiday let potential, it is currently set up as a one-bedroom property, with a good sized fully fitted kitchen/dining room, sitting room with wood burning stove and family bathroom. It is situated in a way that it can have a private area of garden away from the main house.

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OUTSIDE

Dairy Farm is approached via the main shared driveway that leads to all of the properties , from here you access the private gravelled driveway sheltered by tall laurel hedges, mature trees and azaleas to a good-sized parking and turning area.

One of the main attractions of this lovely property is the garden; the vendor has recently redesigned the garden to the south of the house with a large entertaining terrace and bricked pathway leading though symmetrically laid out borders filled with alliums, cat mint hydrangeas and ornamental grasses, which lead the eye through to the parkland beyond.

The back of the house is adorned with climbing roses and wisteria, with herbaceous borders filled with peonies and lavender adding scent and colour,

The garden extends to about one acre and has some magnificent specimen trees. Tall hedges provide total privacy from the neighbouring property and many sheltered areas are created in the curtilage of the cottage and lovely old brick walls.
The majority of the garden is laid to lawn with a kitchen garden area and green house and a charming iron pergola set in the perfect location for the evening sun and views over the parkland: perfect for a sundowner and is it not uncommon to see herds of grazing deer.

There is a double garage with an external staircase that leads to a loft studio room above, this would make a great yoga space/ home office or teenage hangout.

A further building currently houses gym equipment and there is an open fronted wood store and garden shed within this area.

Dairy Farm House is the perfect family home, set in a rural but not isolated located within easy driving distance of Holt and the North Norfolk Coast.

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LOCAL AUTHORITY

North Norfolk District Council Band G

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TENURE

Freehold
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SERVICES

Mains electricity, private water (mains water does supply neighbouring properties) and private drainage. Oil fired central heating and electric Aga.
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DIRECTIONS

From the B1534 approaching Melton Constable village from the west,
take the first turning before you enter the village to the right into Melton
Road, signed to Hindolveston. Proceed for about one mile past the
entrance to the old church and take the next right hand turning signed
to Dairy Farm. Follow the gravel driveway into the group of properties,
follow round to the left, past a cottage on the right and then turn right
and just after a beech hedge on your left you will see a big sign saying
Dairy Farmhouse and the entrance to the drive is on your left.
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DATE DETAILS PRODUCED

From the B1534 approaching Melton Constable village from the west, take the first turning before you enter the village to the right into Melton Road, signed to Hindolveston. Proceed for about one mile past the entrance to the old church and take the next right hand turning signed to Dairy Farm. Follow the gravel driveway into the group of properties, follow round to the left, past a cottage on the right and then turn right and just after a beech hedge on your left you will see a big sign saying Dairy Farmhouse and the entrance to the drive is on your left.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

1. These particulars have been prepared in good faith as a general guide, they are not exhaustive and include information provided to us by other parties including the seller, not all of which will have been verified by us.

2. We have not carried out a detailed or structural survey; we have not tested any services, appliances or fittings. Measurements, floor plans, orientation and distances are given as approximate only and should not be relied on.

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