4 bedroom detached house

A wonderful Grade II listed, 4 bedroom connected house and cottage set in mature grounds of about 0.7 of an acre with superb converted barn/recording studio with good versatile scope, all renovated to a high specification, stylishly and sympathetically modernised.

PLOUGH HOUSE
Sitting room, dining room/Bedroom 3, kitchen/breakfast room, cloakroom with shower, boot room/rear hall and cellar. Two first floor bedrooms and a family bathroom.

PLOUGH HILL COTTAGE (Connected and linked)
Hallway, sitting room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, two bedrooms (one ground floor and one first floor), bathroom and attached studio office/garden room.

CONVERTED BARN/RECORDING STUDIO with music room, recording room, kitchenette & wc - good scope for use as party/games room, home office or just as further accommodation.

Gated drive, parking area, garage, gardens and grounds. In all about 0.7 of an acre.

THE PROPERTY
Plough House and Plough Hill Cottage can be owned and used separately or as one whole as they interconnect with the house being Grade II listed as a 16th century timber framed and plastered house, probably the surviving part of a larger property, with a wing that extends to the south at the west end. The house, cottage and barn have all undergone, and benefit from, a recent comprehensive renovation project and have been superbly and sympathetically improved and modernised. The house roof is tiled, being steeply pitched to the main block with an exposed crown post over the master bedroom. Plough Hill Cottage, whilst the sitting room is of the same era and construction type as the house, was principally a later red brick, clay tiled roof single storey extension attached to the north and in which the owners re-discovered and established a mezzanine 1st floor bedroom, which galleries the cottage dining room.

Plough House leads from the front driveway via the porch, into the main high ceiling’d drawing room, with windows, one being a rediscovered and opened timber mullioned window, to the front and side elevations, a pamment tiled floor, bressumer beamed inglenook fireplace with log burning stove and log store alcove. The impressive and substantial exposed timber frame is particularly notable in this room. A door leads off to a charming dining room/study with window to the side and a hatch to the breakfast room to the rear. This room sits over the old barrel cellar below, accessed via steps down from the sitting room, and has restricted head height and a hatch that opens to the front. A central hall gives access to the staircase, the modernised ground floor shower room/cloakroom and the stylish semi vaulted kitchen/breakfast room. This room principally forms the lean-too single storey timber clad extension to the rear of the house and has been substantially rebuilt as part of the renovation work and now features an excellent range of wall and base mounted units, electric hob with ovens below, sink with view to the rear drive, barn and garden and a cupboard which houses the water softener. There is excellent space for a breakfast table to the end of the room, with good views down the garden and the oak back door opens to the rear drive. Upstairs there are two comfortable double bedrooms that have been restored to their original grandeur, with the master bedroom being fully vaulted exposing the beautiful crown post. There is also a spacious family bathroom off the landing.

Plough Hill Cottage connects through a door from the Plough House drawing room, via an ante room rear hall, with door to the rear outside passage and through to a comfortable sitting room, with inglenook fireplace and log burning stove. The Cottage also benefits from a private front door that leads from the front garden of the property, into a central hallway. The cottage kitchen/breakfast room is well fitted with a modern kitchen and benefits from windows to the front and side, and an original fireplace with inset log burning stove. A door leads from the kitchen to the vaulted ceiling’d dining room, from which a new staircase leads up to the galleried mezzanine double bedroom which overlooks the dining room. There is also a good ground floor double bedroom and a modern family bathroom. A studio extension has been added to the side, being weatherboard clad beneath a clay pantiled roof. It offers a door and two windows to the front garden and two sets of French doors to the rear garden, views of the paddocks beyond and affords good scope for those looking for a hobby room or to work from home.

OUTSIDE
A gated long driveway leads to the front of the house, down the side of the spacious and private front garden for the cottage and around to the rear of the house, where there is a good parking and turning area and access to the link detached converted period barn and garage. THE BARN has been superbly and sympathetically converted with underfloor heating, double glazed windows and is currently used by the owners as an excellent recording studio. It affords superb, versatile further accommodation with the potential as a home office/party barn or further annexe/guest accommodation, if required, as it is already fitted with a kitchenette and cloakroom. It is linked to the house by the boiler room, which houses the modern oil-fired boiler and there is a rebuilt timber clad lean-too garage attached to the other end. The rear garden extends down the hill being mainly lawned with a terrace with pergola, ideal for alfresco entertaining, shrub and flower beds and a selection of mature specimen trees. There are delightful views over the neighbour’s horse paddock to the rear and from the garden behind the barn, beyond the Cottage Studio/Garden House.

LOCATION
Plough House is located in the heart of Stansfield, a popular village lying approximately 13 miles south of Bury St Edmunds. The village enjoys an active community and features a village hall, cricket pitch and playing fields and there is a popular pub nearby, The Queens Head at Hawkedon, which has an enviable reputation. Stansfield is set in an extremely attractive area of undulating Suffolk countryside and is within easy reach of the villages of Clare, Cavendish and Long Melford, which all have many amenities. More extensive shopping facilities can be found in the historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury, both of which have railway stations.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil fired central heating.
Local Authority West Suffolk Council
Council Tax Bands Plough House D
Plough Hill Cottage C
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Predicted speeds from 16 Mbps +
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes
Viewing Only by appointment with the sole agents Jackson-Stops. Tel.[use Contact Agent Button]

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