Lawshall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk

The Ryes is a splendid Grade II Listed cottage located within one of the areas most favoured villages and abuts fields to the side a rear which in turn gives way to far reaching field views. Formerly the Village Post Office this charming property is steeped in history and has been an integral and instantly recognisable part of the village for centuries. The "chocolate box" façade gives way to an exceptionally well presented interior full of character and has been much improved throughout the current owner's tenure.

The front entrance is now used as a useful storage area, with doors linking to the sitting room and dining room and there is still the potential to utilise this more regularly. The current owners utilise the rear entrance on a day-to-day basis given the meandering flower bed bordered pathway that links this entrance to the parking area.

The sitting room and dining room are both perfect examples of a timber framed cottage with attractive exposed beams throughout, fireplaces in both and within the sitting room a particularly impressive inglenook fireplace complete with Oak bressummer and inset log burning stove. An inner hall provides for a staircase to first floor, access to a bathroom and also has a large useful storage cupboard complete with automatic lighting. The kitchen/breakfast room has exposed beams and is divided by open studwork into two distinct areas, the breakfast area having a solid fuel Rayburn set within a chimney and the kitchen area having an extensive range of storage cupboards and appliances. The rear vestibule also doubles as a utility area with useful storage cupboards, plumbing for a washing machine and access to the shower room.

On the first floor are three double rooms accessed via two staircases and with the central room having access from both and currently utilised as a dressing room. There are exposed floorboards, beams and useful built in storage cupboards.

Outside Twin 5 bar gates open to a large gravel driveway which provides extensive parking and in turn leads to a substantial outbuilding with weather boarded elevations under a tiled roof. This building is divided into two distinct areas, the larger being a double garage/workshop and the smaller currently utilised as a gym but offering potential to be studio/office etc. There are ample light and power points throughout. The grounds are exceptional, cleverly divided into distinct areas with the immediate area around the cottage designed in a traditional cottage style with well stocked colourful beds, open expanses of lawn and well-placed terraces. The remainder of the grounds incorporate a BBQ hut, ideal for entertaining on those late summer evenings, a large vegetable garden and paddocks incorporating a large pond.