5 bedroom equestrian property for sale

A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE A SUBSTANTIAL DETACHED EXTENDED PERIOD PROPERTY SET WITHIN 14 ACRES (STS) OFFERING EQUINE FACILITIES WITH FURTHER POTENTIAL, INCLUDING 21 BOXES, OPEN BARN, 20X40 MENAGE, DETACHED OFFICE, SET WITHIN ROLLING COUNTRYSIDE, 5 MILES OUTSIDE OF NEWMARKET

The Property
Woolmer Cottage is a substantial and unique property with a detached office/studio enclosed courtyard garden, stables and paddocks extending to 14.9 acres (sts). The property has rendered elevations under a peg tiled roof with central heating via ground source heat pump and private drainage.

Extending to 2,911 sq ft this versatile property has a generously sized double aspect sitting room with high ceilings, an inglenook fireplace with log burning stove and French doors onto the terrace, dining room, garden room, spacious kitchen/breakfast room, utility/boot room and cloakroom. The light and spacious principal bedroom has vaulted ceilings, Velux windows, exposed beams and an en-suite bathroom, guest bedroom with en-suite bathroom, there are three further double bedrooms and a family bathroom.

Adjacent to the main house, the detached office has two large rooms and kitchen facilities.

The property offers huge potential for improvement and reconfiguration (stp) with the added benefit of being unlisted. The impressive range of equine facilities can be used for personal or business offering a large amount of grazing/paddocks with the advantage of being so close to Newmarket and Cambridge.

Location
Woolmer Cottage is situated on the edge of this sought after village of Brinkley situated on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border. Brinkley is a pleasant village located five miles south of Newmarket and twelve miles east of Cambridge, with local amenities including a church, public house, public hall, some sporting and recreational facilities and a good network of footpaths and countryside walks. For the commuter there is a local train service available from the neighbouring village of Dullingham, leading into Cambridge and Ipswich via Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds. The nearby horseracing town of Newmarket offers a good range of amenities including schools, shops, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities, including health clubs, a swimming pool and golf club. Brinkley is easily commutable to Cambridge with burgeoning high tech industries, science parks and reputable schools. There is excellent access to the A14 and A11 (M11). Cambridge, Audley End and Whittlesford Parkway offer direct rail lines into London with the fastest trains taking under one hour. Stansted International Airport is approximately thirty one miles.

• A11 access 4 miles
• Newmarket 5 miles
• Cambridge 12 miles
• London 66 miles
(distances approximate)

Stables and buildings

Main barn
This consists of a general purpose portal frame building of total size 21.5 x 21.6 m with 2 ranges of 6 loose boxes 3.6 x 3.6 m to each of the 2 sides. The building is clad to the gable ends under an asbestos fibre roof with photo voltaic panels installed.

The stables all have timber doors and breeze block divisions between boxes and between the boxes and the central part of the barn. This central area has an earth floor and represents a useful wet weather turnout area, storage area, or possible area for a horse walker. (12.7 x 21.8 m).

A further second barn is located a short distance away and is a brick built structure 8.4 x 18 m and has a concrete floor. There is a 2.9 m full height roller door to the gable end facing the road, and the barn could be adapted for a variety of uses.
There is a range of 4 stables attached as a lean-to to this barn constructed of breeze block on a concrete floor with upper and lower timber stable doors. These loose boxes are 4.8 x 3.7 m in size and there is a feed room to the end of the range. There is a further block of 3 stables of breeze block construction under a cement fibre roof each 3.6 x 3.6 m. A further area behind the barn has of 2 lean-to stables which have been used in the past for ponies.

The yard has a manure area 9 m x 4 m with walkway to the paddocks.

Land
The total area extends to 14.89 acres with the 5 existing fenced paddocks amounting to 13.16 acres with a gently sloping south facing aspect. All paddocks have post and rail fencing together with a perimeter fence of “Keepsafe” mesh fence. There is water to all the areas and track leading from the yard for access. Within one paddock there is an all weather manege area of 20 x 40 m.

In terms of national classification the land is described as South Suffolk and North Essex Clayland, and as having slightly impeded drainage, with rich loamy and clayey soils with naturally high fertility.

The cover is classified as typically base rich pastures and classic “chalky boulder clay”.