3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale

Delightful semi-detached cottage set in 3.7 ACRES (stms), with superb (approx. 43' x 25') garage with room for 5 cars, toilet, shower and kitchen. Beautifully extended home and on no-through road with excellent outriding / walking.

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This charming three bedroom semi-detached cottage is located on a no-through road in the rural Suffolk village of Wattisfield, between Bury St Edmunds and Diss. Wellsummer Cottage offers superb ground floor space and features a beautiful crafted oak garden room with a door opening out to the raised garden terrace outdoor living area. The views into the garden extend into the countryside and the wide sky line beyond. Set in 3.7 ACRES (stms), it could be an ideal equestrian /smallholding property, or suitable for somebody wishing to enjoy the countryside location. The large garage/workshop would be perfect for a classic car enthusiast as it provides space for at least five vehicles. The shepherd hut would be useful for Airbnb/glamping to provide additional income subject to planning consent.

 

ACCOMMODATION Kitchen, dining room, garden room, sitting room, three first floor bedrooms, family bathroom. 

OUTSIDE Large garage/workshop approximately 43' x 25' with shower, toilet, utility room and kitchen, space for 5 cars, currently set out with office/seating/'Man-cave' area and separate workshop; raised outdoor terrace; shepherds hut with terrace seating area; outbuilding/barn (approx. 17'9" x 27'3") currently used for storage/tractor sheds (potential stable block), front and rear gardens; large gravel parking areas; meadow with separate gated access from the road, electric vehicle charging point, rear and front gardens.

 

APPROXIMATE DISTANCES Diss 9.8 miles; Bury St Edmunds 14.2 miles; Ipswich 26.7 miles; Norwich 36 miles; Kings Forest 18 miles; A14 8.5 miles; A11 14 miles
Topthorn Arena 18 miles; Suffolk Equestrian Centre (The Jays) 17 miles; Anvil Stud 14 miles
 

LOCAL NOTES The market town of Diss offers an extensive and diverse range of many day to day amenities and facilities along with a mainline railway station with regular/direct services to London Liverpool Street and Norwich. The historic market town of Bury St. Edmunds offers an excellent range of shopping and recreational facilities, as well as a large selection of local shops, restaurants and pubs.

For the equestrian buyer the property is well placed for local show centres and events.

 

ACCOMMODATION
The farmhouse kitchen which has a tiled floor, is well laid out with a breakfast bar, double butler sinks, and hardwood worktops over kitchen cupboards. There is a built-in dishwasher, washing machine and water softener. A Rangemaster cooker with lpg gas 6 burner hob and dual electric ovens is in the chimney recess which has attractive exposed bricks. A doorway from the kitchen leads to the dining room which is open plan on one side to the oak-framed garden room which creates natural light and space. On the other side there is a doorway with a sliding door to the sitting room, in the original part of the cottage, which has an inglenook fireplace with exposed brickwork and a woodburning stove. From the sitting room there is an external door to the front garden.

Stairs from the kitchen lead to the first floor, which has three bedroom with countryside views. The family bathroom has a panel bath with a central shower rose with a central shower curtain.
 

OUTSIDE The SHEPHERD HUT which has its own garden terrace is beautifully decorated. There built-in double bed and a sofa seating area which creates excellent occasional guest accommodation utilising the bathroom and kitchen in the adjacent garage/workshop outbuilding.

The LARGE GARAGE / WORKSHOP which provides a private showroom for at least five cars has an office/seating area, a kitchen, utility room, shower and toilet. There is a separate room used as a workshop. The outbuilding has two double remote roller doors with a parking area to the front. This is an ideal building for the storage of classic cars but has many other potential uses such as office / business use or annexe accommodation subject to any necessary planning consents.

The purpose built BARN OUTBUILDING which is in the garden area to the rear of the property is currently arranged for garden tractor and garden machinery storage. The layout would allow straightforward conversion into loose boxes for equestrian/smallholding use.

The PADDOCK is adjacent to the garden and has mature hedge boundaries. It has separate gated access from Honeypot Lane and gated access from the end of the garden.

Honeypot Lane is a designated Suffolk Quiet Lane. There is excellent outriding and walking from the property including a bridleway opposite Wellsummer Cottage. Stanton rides are nearby and the all year round riding in Kings Forest is approximately a 30 minute drive away.

 

MID SUFFOLK DISTRICT COUNCIL Council Tax Band C 


EPC Rating - D

The cottage has been thermally insulated to the outside and inside throughout and all windows are double glazed. 

SERVICES Private drainage – treatment plant
Mains water and electricity
Oil fired central heating
EV charging point
 

AGENTS NOTE A public footpath from Honeypot Lane runs along the hedge boundary of the meadow.