6 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- stunning period features throughout
- six bedrooms and two bathrooms
- three reception rooms including a vaulted dining hall
- edge of village location and set back from the road
- established gardens with pond, moat and garden stores
- about 1 acre
Description
Listed Grade II of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Oak Farm is believed to date back to the 16th century and is constructed from a fine oak timber frame on a brick base with rendered colour washed elevations under a long pitched peg tiled roof. Internally the house, which has been extended over the centuries, provides numerous period features that include exposed beams and close studwork, oak panelling, mullion windows, open fireplaces with impressive surrounds and over mantels, stone and oak floors and well proportioned rooms with good ceiling heights. There is an impressive vaulted dining hall and the kitchen is fitted with shaker style units. The house displays some of the very finest features of the period and is also mentioned in Pevsner's book of Suffolk houses as the best farm house in the curtilage of the village. There are two staircases to the first floor where there are four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The second floor has two further impressive vaulted bedrooms (used for storage) and a large attic room.
Oak Farm is set back from road screened by established yew trees with the main southerly elevation facing over the established gardens. The gardens are a particular feature of the house with a large pond, lawns interspersed with shaped and well stocked beds and to the rear of the house is the old moat. The property further benefits from a large parking area and various garden outhouses along with a greenhouse, a well and productive vegetable garden and asparagus beds.
Location
Oak Farm is situated on the B1123 about 1 mile south of Metfield village. Metfield is approximately 8 miles west of Halesworth and 6 miles east of Harleston. The village has a community run shop selling a wide range of produce, a monthly farmers market, parish church and village hall. Both Harleston and Halesworth provide further shopping facilities, doctors surgeries, libraries and schools. Halesworth also has a railway station which offers a service via Saxmundham to London Liverpool Street. The larger town of Diss is 14 miles from Metfield and has regular direct train services to London's Liverpool Street Station. The village is also equidistant between Ipswich and Norwich which offer a much wider range of amenities.
Square Footage: 3,699 sq ft
Acreage: 1 Acres
Directions
What3words: ///chef.coins.browsers
Property information from this agent
Places of interest
See more properties like this:
*DISCLAIMER
Property reference IPS230206. The information displayed about this property comprises a property advertisement. OnTheMarket.com makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the advertisement or any linked or associated information, and OnTheMarket.com has no control over the content provided by the agent or developer. This property advertisement does not constitute property particulars. The information is provided and maintained by Savills - Ipswich.
OnTheMarket may have applied supplementary data to this property listing, including:
Broadband availability and predicted speed: obtained from Ofcom on January 11, 2022
Broadband speed is measured in megabits per second, with the number returned showing how fast the connection is. Each reading is based on the highest predicted speed of any major broadband network for services that deliver the download speeds. The following are the different readings that we may display:
Basic: Up to 30 Mbit/s
Super-fast: Between 30 Mbit/s and 300 Mbit/s
Ultra-fast: Over 300 Mbit/s
The data is updated three times a year. The checker results are predictions and should not be regarded as guaranteed. For more information, see: https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/about-checker#Answer_0_2
Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength: obtained from Ofcom on January 11, 2022
Mobile signal predictions are provided by the four UK mobile network operators: EE, O2, Three and Vodafone. Predictions can vary significantly from the coverage you may actually experience as a result of local factors (especially terrain). Ofcom has tested the actual coverage provided in various locations around the UK to help ensure that these predictions are reasonable. The values shown against a property can be broken down as follows:
Clear: No bars, no signal predicted
Red: One bar, reliable signal unlikely
Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
Green: Three bars, likely to have good coverage and receive a data rate to support basic web services
Enhanced: Full bars, likely to have good coverage indoors and to receive an enhanced data rate to support multimedia services
Energy Performance data and Internal floor area
Any supplementary data should not be relied upon as forming part of any property particulars and OnTheMarket cannot be held responsible for any incorrectness in this data. See here for more information.