4 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- 1784 sqft detached farmhouse
- 15th Century origins and Grade II Listed
- Timber framed and in need of renovation
- Four first-floor bedrooms
- 0.92 acres of grounds – west facing rear garden
- Superb location overlooking Barking Tye Common
- Large garage building with potential (stp)
- Needham Market & A14: 3.5 miles
- Chain free
Lower Farmhouse is a Suffolk County Council owned home which has been under the occupation of tenant farmers for a number of decades.
The property is offered for sale with significant modernisation required, but provides a super opportunity for the successful buyer to create an imposing family home that takes full advantage of its excellent plot, orientation, and location. Subject to planning consent we also expect it would be suitable for extension to the rear.
The accommodation includes four first-floor bedrooms, two reception rooms built around a large chimney, a ground floor bathroom, and a kitchen. There are two separate staircases and front and rear hallways.
GROUNDS AND OUTBUILDINGS
The grounds allocated to the house total 0.92 of an acre and include a formal garden at the front which faces east, and a west facing rear garden. The remainder of the grounds are mainly meadowland, albeit with established boundary hedges and a number of trees.
To the front, the house has its own single garage which is wide enough to be converted into a double sized garage if required (stp). This also has an attached shed/outhouse.
LOCATION
The property is one of four residential dwellings accessed from a privately owned, 700m track leading from the B1078. The house enjoys a peaceful setting (except for occasional air traffic activity from nearby Wattisham Air Base) and has a delightful outlook over farmland to the rear and over Barking Tye Common to the front. The common also provides excellent dog walking and play space for children.
Needham Market is just over three miles from the house, as is access to the A14 in both directions. Both Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds are around twenty minutes away by car.
DIRECTIONS
Postcode: IP6 8JD
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POINTS TO NOTE
The property is accessed via a private road and the purchaser would be expected to contribute 25% of the maintenance and repair costs when required. It is connected to mains water, electric and sewerage. Heating is provided by an oil-fired boiler (which has not been tested).
The house is registered in council tax band E with Babergh District Council and payments of £2450.98 PA. The house has not been EPC assessed due to its listing.
The property has broadband download speeds in the region of 5.0 Mbps (based on Offcom data) with Superfast upgrades available to 40 Mbps. Offcom expects mobile phone coverage to be available on all networks outside the property and limited mobile coverage inside the property, except on O2.
We understand that the neighbouring barns which are also owned by our client may be subject to an application for residential development in due course.
The proposed new Norwich to Tilbury Pylon route will run around 400m to the rear of farm house at its closest point.
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