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Wareham House, Guist Bottom Road, Stibbard

Land size
1.25 acres
Bedrooms
3

Key Features

  • Impressive, detached, Georgian fronted Residence
  • Requiring improvement
  • Potential to provide a spacious family home
  • Gardens and meadow extending to about 1 1/4 acres (stms)
  • Quiet rural location
  • Easy road access to Fakenham & Norwich

Description

Impressive, detached, Georgian fronted Residence, requiring improvement with considerable potential for refurbishment and extension to provide a spacious family home, set in lawned gardens and meadowland extending, in all, to about 1¼ acres (stms).
Located in a quiet position within a sought after, rural village within easy walking distance of open farmland and having easy road access to Fakenham & Norwich.
Ground Floor: Half glazed door to
Small Entrance Hall:
Sitting room: 13’4” x 12’5”, (4.1m x 3.8m). Tiled fireplace with matching hearth and mantle shelf. Arched recesses to either side. Centre light and 2 wall lights. Dimmer switch. Door to utility room.
Dining room: 12’5” x 12’3”, (3.8m x 3.7m). Small feature fireplace with matching hearth. Built-in shelved cupboard with double doors to side. Further built-in high level cupboard. Telephone point. TV point. Door to;
Kitchen: 13’6” x 6’9”, (5.0m x 2.1m). Sink unit with mixer tap, set in fitted work surface with drawers, cupboards, appliance space and plumbing for washing machine under. Fitted wall cupboards. Understairs cupboard. (Door to back stairs – blocked). Door to outside. Door to;
Utility room: 14’1” x 6’9”, (4.3m x 2.1m). Fitted work top with drawers, cupboards, and appliance space under. Fitted wall cupboard and wall unit. Understairs cupboard. Fitted shelves. Door to Sitting room.
Rear Hall: Built-in airing cupboard with lagged hot water cylinder and fitted immersion heater. Hatch to roof space.
Office: 13’6” x 10’5”, (4.1m x 3.2m). Shelved cupboard with split door. Boarded over fireplace. TV point. Double glazed window. Half double glazed door to outside.
Bathroom: Pink coloured suite of panelled bath with tiled surround. Pedestal hand basin with tiled splashback. Low level WC. Electrically heated towel rail and heater. Secondary double glazed window.
First Floor:
Landing/Study: 18’8” x 6’9”, 5.7m x 2.1m) max. Fitted shelves. Small hanging cupboard.
Bedroom 1: 12’5” x 12’4”, (3.8m x 3.8m). Boarded over fireplace. View over front garden.
Dressing room: 6’2” x 6’0”, (1.9m x 1.8m). Window overlooking front garden.
Bedroom 2: 12’7” x 12’5”, (3.8m x 3.8m). Boarded over fireplace. View over front garden.
Bedroom 3: 12’4” x 6’9”, (3.8m x 2.1m).
Outside: To the front of the property is a good sized, mainly lawned garden, with natural hedging and mature shrubs and trees.
A gravelled drive to the rear of the property leads to a turning area, ample car parking space and a detached timber and felt roofed Garage, 16’0” x 8’0”, (4.9m x 2.4m).
(Note: within the garage is a ride-on mower, which is included in the sale).
Adjoining the house at the North end is a Store, 11’9” x 10’9”, (3.6m x 3.3m), with a mainly brick floor, and entrance to Store 2, 10’9” x 9’9”, (3.3m x 3.0m), with mainly quarry tiled floor.
Approached from the outside is a further small Shed.
To the rear of Wareham House is a good sized garden with lawns, a flower bed, well, and aluminium framed Greenhouse, 8’0” x 6’0”, (2.4m x 1.8m).
A pedestrian gate leads to grassed meadow, bounded on the East side by mature trees.
The gardens and meadow together extend to about 1¼ acres (stms)
Services: Mains water, electricity and drainage are connected to the property.
District Authority: North Norfolk District Council, Cromer. Tel: . Tax Band: “D”.
EPC: TBA
Directions:
From Fakenham take the A.1067 Norwich Road, and at 4 miles turn left as signposted Stibbiard. Follow the road into the centre of the village, and turn right into Wood Norton Road. Bear right by the village hall into Guist Bottom Road, and Wareham is on the left, as marked by a for sale board.
Location:
Stibbard is a pleasant rural village with a primary school, Post Office, Village Hall and Church, on the edge of the Sennowe Estate. The Market Town of Fakenham is about 5 miles distant and offers an excellent range of shopping, educational, sporting and leisure facilities. The picturesque Coast with its fine sandy beaches, pinewoods, marshes, and sailing harbours is 10 miles distant, and the fine City of Norwich, (which offers a direct rail link to London Liverpool Street, and an international airport), is 22 miles distant.

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
D
Date Posted
2026-06-02

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 1,167 Homes with Land listings in East Anglia (1+ acres).

This Property£380,000 / acre
Homes with Land Average (1+ acres) £379,294 / acre
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Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity
Mains
Water
Mains
Heating
Open Fire
Broadband
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Sewerage
Mains

Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Private Rights of Way
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Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
Garage, Driveway, Gated Parking, Off-Street Parking, Rear Parking, Private Parking
Garden
Front Garden, Private Garden, Enclosed Garden, Rear Garden, Rear Garden

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

80 Mbps

Superfast

Suitable for

  • HD streaming
  • Video calls
  • Web & social

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • All Saints Stibbard Church of England Primary Academy and Nursery459 metresOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    208
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Little Snoring Community Primary Academy3.2 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    65
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Foulsham Primary School Academy3.6 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    5 to 11
    Pupils
    61
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Fakenham Infant and Nursery School3.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 7
    Pupils
    207
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Fakenham Junior School4.1 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    7 to 11
    Pupils
    257
    Type
    Academy converter

Secondary

  • Fakenham Academy4.5 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    723
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Reepham High School and College7.9 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    959
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Northgate High School8.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,203
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Litcham School8.9 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 16
    Pupils
    727
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Dereham Neatherd High School9.3 milesOfsted: Requires improvement *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,079
    Type
    Academy converter

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Morrisons Fakenham, Fakenham3.6 miles
Lidl Fakenham, Fakenham3.7 miles
Aldi Fakenham, Fakenham4 miles

GP surgery

Fakenham Medical Practice3.6 miles

Pharmacy

Fakenham Pharmacy3.6 miles

Hospital

Dereham Hospital8.5 miles

Green space

Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces843 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

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Getting Around

Nearest station

Sheringham Rail Station14 miles

Nearest bus stop

Green333 metres

Typical drive times

Holt15 min · 10 miles
Dereham16 min · 10 miles
Reepham13 min · 9.5 miles
Fakenham8 min · 4.8 miles
Norwich (city)36 min · 23 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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