Bury Road, Hitcham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7

An outstanding, beautifully presented Grade II listed six bedroom family home, with excellent character and substance, superbly set in 1 acre with part landscaped grounds and a detached double garage, at the end of a country lane.

Entrance hall, drawing room, dining/garden room snug, sitting room, spacious kitchen/breakfast/living room, utility/boot room, rear hall/boiler room and a cloakroom.

First floor master bedroom with en-suite & dressing room, guest bedroom with en-suite shower room, two further double bedrooms and a family bathroom. Two second floor double/twin bedrooms and a family bathroom.

Gated gravel driveway, detached double garage with store room above and part moated gardens & grounds.

In all about 1.02 acres (sts).

THE PROPERTY
Old Bloxhall House is a superbly presented Grade II listed detached formed Hall House, being timber framed with rendered elevations under clay tiled roofs and boasting superb, well-proportioned reception rooms and bedrooms with comfortably high ceilings throughout. The property is understood to have origins dating back to 1257, with the grounds that extend to just over 1 acre being part bounded by the former moat to the south. This spacious family home, that enjoys stylishly presented accommodation over three floors affords the benefit of oil-fired central heating and modern casements windows throughout. During the current owner’s custodianship of the property they have improved the electrics, updated the water heating system, replaced the old insulation with more efficient and sympathetic lamb’s wool insulation throughout, replaced the old private drainage system with a modern Klargester and have installed CCTV, that will be left with the property.

The accommodation in brief comprises and entrance hall, with traditional stairs turning up to the first floor and doors to the drawing room and the sitting room, which are rooms that both benefit from wonderful, exposed timbers, bressummer beamed fireplaces, that boast efficient log burning stoves, and windows overlooking the garden. From the drawing room there is an arched door opening and exposed timber wall studwork with glazed inserts, through to the dining room/snug, which has a superb wall of fitted shelves and cupboards, a bressummer beamed fireplace and is open to a ‘garden room’ area that has fitted window bay seating with storage and views over the garden. The excellent kitchen/breakfast living room is a great space for everyday family living and for entertaining friends for supper parties, with space for a 12-place dining table, a glazed door opening to the west facing terrace to the side and a built-in display/entertainment unit with shelves, cupboards and draws to the living room end. The kitchen is well fitted with a range of base and wall mounted framed units with polished dark granite worksurfaces, underset ceramic butlers sink, integrated larder fridge and dishwasher, bottled gas fired Rangemaster range style cooker with splashback and extractor hood above. A door also opens to the utility boot room to the rear of the kitchen that boasts space for an American style fridge freezer with a further range of base units with polished granite worksurfaces and space and plumbing for a washing machine.

A straight 2nd flight of stairs leads up to the first-floor landing from which there is access to 4 double sized bedrooms and the family bathroom on this floor. The main bedroom and guest bedrooms both benefit from well-presented en-suite bathroom/shower room facilities, with the main bedroom also boasting a separate linked dressing room with fitted cupboards and draws. Both second floor bedrooms have fitted furniture with one benefiting from fitted twin beds with storage and shelving and the other, a fitted desk/workstation and fitted book shelving, and has a door that gives easy access through to the loft space. The 2nd family bathroom that is also on this floor has been luxuriously fitted with a freestanding designer slipper bath and as with almost every room in the house, presents character features such as exposed timbers, brickwork and floorboards.

OUTSIDE
There is gated access from the lane to the gravelled driveway, which affords parking space for up to 6 cars, and leads to the detached, block built double garage that is located to the side of the house. The garage also affords good, boarded loft storage above and a personal door to the side. A beautiful low brick and flint wall gives separation from the parking to the garden and house, with oak gated access to the stone and brick pathways that lead around the house and connect the south and west facing terraces, ideal for al-fresco dining and entertaining. The owners also commissioned garden design plans from Jeremy Allen Garden Design, the hard landscaping elements of which have been completed, and to the rear of the house there is a kitchen/vegetable garden, easily accessed from the back door, with gravel paths and raised beds. The majority of the garden is lawned and the owners having recently established a small orchard area, with a variety of fruit trees. The former moat runs along the southern boundary of the garden and there is also a natural pond to the eastern side of the grounds, next to the parking area.

LOCATION
Old Bloxhall House is peacefully located to the end of a rural no through road country lane, backing onto a stable yard/farm buildings on the outskirts of Hitcham, which is an historic ribbon village set in the Suffolk countryside. Bildeston, 2.4 miles up the road, is a charming village, situated north of the Dedham Vale AONB and south-east of the larger cultural town of Bury St Edmunds.

This thriving village hosts a selection of useful amenities, including several pubs, one of which is the well-regarded gastropub, The Crown. Along with these, there is a village shop and Post Office, a village hall and a bike shop, doctors’ surgery and primary school.

The property is well placed for access to Stowmarket (8 miles), which offers a good range of everyday facilities, and the mainline railway station provides a regular service to London Liverpool Street taking approximately 80 minutes (some alternatively commute from Manningtree). The village is also conveniently located for easy access to the A14. More comprehensive facilities are available in the historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds, which offers an excellent range of amenities, extensive shopping facilities and a good range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. Cultural amenities include the beautiful Georgian Theatre Royal and The Abbey Gardens.

The international airport at Stansted is about 45 miles away and in addition to air services there is an express train service to London.

Schooling: There are excellent local schools in both the public and private sectors including nearby Finborough School and Old Buckenham Hall with Culford, Ipswich School, Framlingham College and St Joseph’s College, all accessible.

DIRECTIONS
From the bottom of the lane, signposted with a ‘No Through Road’ sign proceed up the lane for about 0.3 of a mile where Old Bloxhall House will be found on the left-hand side just before the signs at the end of the lane to the public footpaths.

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PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains electricity and water. Klargester private drainage. Oil fired central heating
Local Authority Babergh District Council
Council Tax Band G
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Ofcom states speeds available of up to 1800Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes - varies depending on network provider. Please visit to check availability
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