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Guide price
£2,500,000

4 bedroom townhouse for sale

Fordham Road, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8.
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Townhouse
4 beds
4 baths
4,950 sq ft / 460 sq m
Added > 14 days

Key information

TenureFreehold
Council taxBand H
BroadbandUltra-fast 1000Mbps *
Mobile signal
EEO2ThreeVodafone

Features and description

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • 4 bedrooms
  • 3 reception rooms
  • 4 bathrooms
  • Period
  • Detached
  • Garden
  • Patio
  • Stabling
  • Town/City
  • Town House
Hurworth House and Training Yard originate from the Victorian period and within the last 10 years, the house has been substantially remodelled and extended, creating a truly impressive home encapsulating all the requirements of modern family living and entertaining on a grand scale.
Built of Cambridge brick with a hipped slate roof with the addition of a centrepiece contemporary entertainment room panelled in French Walnut, vaulted with a central glazed atrium. The interior boasts limestone and timber floors on the ground floor with sash windows, contemporary timber panelling and recessed doors.
The front door is set within an imposing limestone portico leading to an open reception hall with glass atrium and magnificent staircase to the first floor and doors leading off to the drawing room, with open fireplace and access to the garden, sitting room with open fireplace and dual aspect windows.
The large contemporary kitchen with Gaggenau appliances and open-plan dining room provides access to the boot room with a side entrance door to the Training Yard, Butlers' kitchen and cellar, a pair of French doors lead out to the patio area. A corridor with two sets of recessed double doors accesses the impressive entertainment room with wall and ceiling panels of French Walnut with central atrium and full height glazed apertures, each housing French doors leading out to the garden and patio area.
The first floor galleried landing orientates around the staircase with atrium above. The large principal bedroom suite with dual aspect windows, built in wardrobes and a large marble en suite bathroom. Three further bedrooms with en suite shower rooms and laundry room.

GARDENS & GROUNDS
Gated in and out driveway with extensive parking and stunning landscaped gardens to the rear.

HURWORTH TRAINING YARD (LOT 2)
The attractive Racehorse Training Yard, built of brick, flint and pantile with 18 boxes, staff room, feed room, farriers' room, cloakroom, storeroom and former hay loft with 6 rooms (currently let with a passing rent of £32,400).


Hurworth House and Training Yard occupies a prominent location within a short distance of Warren Hill training grounds, the High Street, train station, Tattersalls sales rooms and amenities. Newmarket is set in attractive countryside on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border and is world famous as the headquarters of British horseracing. The town is home to many racing institutions including the National Stud, the National Horseracing Museum, Tattersalls and The Jockey Club. Some of the finest racing in the world is seen on Newmarket's two racecourses: The Rowley Mile and The July Course. Newmarket itself provides a good range of amenities including schools, shops, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities, including health clubs, a swimming pool and golf club; Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds offer further amenities. There is excellent access to the A14 and A11 (M11).

There is a branch line connection from Newmarket to Cambridge and Ipswich. Cambridge North, Cambridge, Audley End and Whittlesford Parkway offer direct rail lines in to London, with the fastest trains taking under one hour. Stansted International Airport is approximately forty minutes' drive.

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