5 bedroom equestrian property for sale

A superbly presented and much improved modern family house standing in a picturesque rural setting in over 3 acres with excellent equestrian/small holding facilities.

Entrance hall, sitting room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility/boot room, study, snug and a cloakroom. Five first floor bedrooms and three bath/showers rooms (one en-suite).

Driveway and ample parking, formal gardens, paddocks, stables, outbuildings/hay barn and manége. In all about 3.2 acres (sts).

THE PROPERTY
Buttons Farm House is a superbly presented spacious family home built a little over 30 years ago and occupies a delightful setting off a small country lane, enjoying beautiful views over abutting countryside.

Presenting colour washed rendered elevations under a pantile roof, the well-proportioned accommodation extends to over 3,000 sq ft and has been much improved over recent years to include a granite fitted kitchen and matching utility room. The spacious reception hall features the stairs leading to the first floor with cupboard under, a front aspect and accesses the ground floor accommodation with a good size triple aspect sitting room featuring an impressive open inglenook fireplace with bressummer beam and leads through into the double aspect dining room which features a chimney breast, double doors to the garden and a return door into the hall. The spacious kitchen/breakfast room is comprehensively fitted with a range of base and eye level units, granite work surfaces, inset Aga range style oven, integrated dishwasher and a pamment floor. This well-appointed family area has a double aspect and enjoys beautiful unobstructed views to the rear over abutting countryside. A snug leads off the kitchen/breakfast room and also enjoys beautiful views to the rear and features an ornamental brick fireplace. The utility/boot room is fitted with units and granite work surfaces matching the kitchen, with a butler sink, bespoke boot room storage unit with cupboards, hanging space and drawers and leads into the study with windows to the front and side aspects, pamment floor, a range of cupboards and a boiler cupboard. The utility/boot room has a door leading to garden and accesses the cloakroom.

On the first floor the landing leads to five bedrooms with the master bedroom enjoying an en-suite and there is also a family bathroom and a separate shower room. All bedrooms enjoy far reaching picturesque views over abutting countryside.

OUTSIDE
Buttons Farm is approached over a gravel driveway leading to a large parking area for numerous vehicles. The formal front gardens are predominantly laid to lawn with well stocked herbaceous beds & borders.

The gardens to the real are also predominantly laid to lawn with mature hedging and a further side area of garden with an ornamental pond, flower & shrub borders and an outside office with kitchenette, dining area and a cloakroom. There are beautiful, unobstructed views to the rear over abutting countryside.

To the east is an enclosed 1.3 acre meadow, which is accessed from the rear lawn and also has a separate field entrance. A further paddock and turn-out area of around 0.6 of an acre, lie adjacent to the stables, which comprise 20 boxes, haybarn and storage and a 32x19m manége. In all the property extends to 3.2 acres (sts) of attractive gardens, paddocks and extensive stabling, enjoying an idyllic and picturesque rural setting with far reaching views over surrounding countryside.

LOCATION
Buttons Farm is pleasantly situated off a quiet lane on the edge of Blo’ Norton, a short distance from the Beehive Tearooms and Coffee Shop and The Dutch Barn Garden Nursery. Blo’ Norton itself is a popular village sitting on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, 6.5 miles west of Diss, which is a well-appointed market town offering a good range of everyday local shopping and leisure facilities and there is a mainline station, which offers a regular service to London’s Liverpool Street taking approximately 90 minutes. Thetford railway station, lies just 11 miles to the east with services to Cambridge taking approximately 45 minutes. The village has good access to the A11 and north to Norwich or south via the A143 to the medieval market town of Bury St Edmunds, which offers an excellent range of amenities with schooling in the public and private sectors, extensive shopping facilities and a good range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. There are numerous high-quality restaurants and cultural amenities including the beautiful Georgian Theatre Royal and The Abbey Gardens.

DIRECTIONS
From Bury St Edmunds head in a north easterly direction along the A143 passing through the villages of Great Barton and bypassing Ixworth. Continue along this road to Stanton, taking the first turning on your left signposted Barningham. Continue through Barningham and Hopton and as you leave Hopton take a right hand turning signposted Blo Norton. Continue past Blo’ Norton Church and after a further 1 mile, after passing The Beehive Tearooms/Coffee Shop and Dutch Barn Garden Nursery, take the left turn into Clay Hall Lane. Proceed along Clay Hall Lane for a further 0.3 of a mile and Buttons Farm will be found on the left.
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PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water, electricity. Private drainage, although is believed to be non-compliant with the General Binding Rules 2020. Oil fired central heating.
Local Authority Breckland District Council
Council Tax Band G
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Ofcom states speeds available of 9Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes
Viewing Only by appointment with the sole agents Jackson-Stops Tel.[use Contact Agent Button]