4 bedroom detached house for sale

A wonderfully positioned property, partially converted into a spacious four bedroom home set in about 3 acres of gardens and grounds.

INFORMAL TENDER. BEST AND FINAL OFFERS REQUESTED BY 12 NOON ON WEDNESDAY 5TH JUNE 24.

Entrance hall, kitchen/dining room, sitting room, study, utility room, shower/cloakroom and two bedrooms. Unfinished first floor to comprise: master bedroom with en-suite shower room, second bedroom and a family bathroom.

Gated driveway and parking, detached single garage, gardens and grounds, meadow/paddock land, two box stable block and machinery/garden storage sheds. In all about 3 acres (sts). CHAIN FREE SALE

THE PROPERTY
Mokefield is a wonderfully located property offering the excellent opportunity to finish the project, instigated by the current owners, to a buyer’s own specification and taste. The property was originally a bungalow that, due to the outstanding location and grounds, afforded the scope to improve and extend the property and create a family home more in keeping with those grounds. The owner’s plans, which have been implemented in the main, improve the property by extending the ground floor accommodation and extends up into the roof space, having also enlarged/extended that. Planning (DC/18/2233/HH) and building consent was granted in 2019 and the improvement works were commenced. The property is habitable with the owners currently living there and affords a working kitchen/utility, a family shower room, bedrooms, study and the part completed but habitable sitting room. The main structural changes have been completed, with the steel work required for the first-floor accommodation and with the oak banister stairs fitted, so there is now the opportunity for a buyer to complete the improvement works in their own style and finish.

The accommodation, which is double glazed and oil-fired boiler heated, currently comprises a half glazed front door leading into the entrance hallway, which has new tiled flooring running through to the kitchen/dining room and the utility room. Stairs, with understairs cupboard housing the water softener, lead up to the first floor and the hall is open plan to what will be the kitchen once it is fitted by the buyers. The kitchen area benefits from double glazed windows to the side and stylish bi-fold doors to the rear – Permission has been granted and implemented (so will last in perpetuity) for a ground floor extension off the side of the kitchen/dining room for an oak framed garden reception room which would further enhance the accommodation, with doors from both the dining room and the sitting room and out to the garden. There is a temporary kitchen unit with electric oven and hob and plumbing for a dishwasher. The ceiling is yet to be boarded and plastered and has been left open to the first floor to allow building materials to be passed up. It has been wired and fitted with downlighters. An obscure glazed door opens from the hall to the spacious sitting room which features large windows and doors to the gardens and provides excellent views of the surrounding equestrian paddocked countryside. There is also good scope to reinstate the former fireplace and hearth. The study, which is finished to a stylish standard, benefits from a double-glazed window to the front, exposed floorboards and is fitted with a desk unit with wall unit above. The utility room has been completed with a modern range of base and wall mounted kitchen units, a light granite style worksurface, inset Blanco sink and drainer unit and with space and plumbing for a washing machine. A half-glazed door and double-glazed window open to the rear garden. Bedroom one benefits from downlighting, a double-glazed window to the front, exposed floorboards and a fitted wall display shelf. Bedroom two has a double-glazed window to the rear and downlighting. The shower room/cloakroom has been finished to a good standard with corner shower enclosure with hand shower and fixed rain shower head, pedestal hand wash basin, low flush wc, tiled flooring and three walls, radiator towel rail and obscure glazed windows to the rear. On the first floor the accommodation requires completion as the space is currently open plan and partially floored. Windows for the two double bedrooms, family bathroom and the en-suite, are fitted and the plumbing in place. There is also a new pressurised hot water cylinder.

OUTSIDE
Set back from the quiet country lane, the property benefits from gated access to the front drive, which leads up between cherry trees to a detached single garage to the side of the house. The house sits well in a central position surrounded by gardens with lawns, wildflower beds, another fruit tree avenue to the rear, flower and herbaceous beds to the side and another vehicular 5-bar gate to the front of the property, giving alternate access to the store sheds and stables beyond, where the paddocks lie. A further notable feature is the ancient tree lined trackway that leads up to the side of the meadow which adds ‘money can’t buy’ character to the grounds. The meadow benefits from well-established and maintained grass ley and is gently sloping, enabling good drainage. To the side of the meadow there is also a small orchard area. The two box stable block benefits from power and light and stands on concrete slab under a tin roof. There is also a new double door fronted machinery store/garden shed which would also be useful as a feed store for those wanting to have livestock/horses on the land.

LOCATION
Mokefield occupies a very pleasant, secluded outlying position in the sprawling village of Wickhambrook, with excellent views across the neighbouring countryside. The village has a thriving community with a post office and stores, public house, primary school, doctor’s surgery and a village hall. It is conveniently situated 10 miles from Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds, both of which offer further amenities including schooling in the private and public sectors, shopping facilities and leisure facilities. For the commuter there is a railway station in Newmarket linking to Cambridge and London and from Bury St Edmunds linking to Stowmarket and London. The village also has a regular bus service. For those wishing to travel by road, there is easy access to the A14 and A11 (M11).

DIRECTIONS
From Bury St Edmunds proceed southwest along the A143 through the village of Horringer and past the village of Chedburgh. Continue along the A143 and take the next right hand turn to Depden. Follow this road through Depden, across the large village green and upon reaching the T junction at the far end of the village turn right and then almost immediately left to Baxters Green. The property will be found just past Easterwood Farm and the footpath sign, on the right-hand side.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating.
Local Authority West Suffolk
Council Tax Band D
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Ofcom states speeds available of up to 1000 Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes
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