An outstanding period family home, ‘not listed’ but with good character and substance, superbly set in grounds of about 10.2 acres, with an excellent range of outbuildings, garages and barns.

Entrance hall, reception/home office, drawing room, dining room, sitting/media room with lift to first floor, games room/snug, Aga kitchen/breakfast room with pantry utility room, garden room, cloakroom and scullery.
Galleried first floor landing, master bedroom, five further bedrooms and three family bath/shower rooms. Second floor with two/three further double bedrooms.

Driveway, parking & significant 12 car garaging, versatile two storey detached barn with wc, further outbuildings incorporating former stables, tack room, garden store & workshop barn. Gardens, grounds and pond. In all about 10.22 acres (sts)

THE PROPERTY
Barningham Hall is a superb family home of significant character and substance, being originally a timber framed farmhouse, which appears to have been extended to the front and the side, initially by the Georgians and subsequently by the Victorians. The house, which has not been listed, is presented and maintained to a high standard and benefits from high ceilings and well-proportioned rooms throughout. Appealing and character features include open fireplaces with wood burners, some exposed timbers in the oldest part of the house and excellent views from the house across its gardens, parkland grounds and the outbuildings, being as it is, so well positioned in the setting. The accommodation is arranged over three floors, with the top floor used as storage/hobby space (but could be upgraded if required) This spacious (circa 5,500 sq ft) home is arranged in the traditional Georgian style with the main reception rooms opening off the hall, to the front and side, with the Aga kitchen/breakfast room, snug/playroom side hall, garden room and utility being to the rear of the building and overlooking the part walled rear garden and is ideal for modern day family living. There are six spacious bedrooms, two family bath & shower rooms and a family shower room on the first floor all accessed by the main stairs and a back staircase. In addition, there are many simple opportunities for a new owner to include their own details and personal style, from en-suite bathrooms to open plan accommodation. The lift coming up into Bedroom 6 at the moment from the TV/Media Room, is being left with the house (as can assist with future proofing).

THE BARN
Accessed from either the front or rear drives, the two storey detached block built and timber clad barn could, subject to consent, be converted to make a very comfortable and spacious annexe, home office or party barn, being a convenient distance from the main house and already benefiting from its own private drainage system. Currently it is used for garaging and as a workshop on the ground floor and as a store area and home office studio to the first floor, which is accessed by the internal staircase.

OUTSIDE
The Grounds of this wonderful home are a most appealing feature being superbly maintained and thoughtfully set out and arranged with the current owners having planted hundreds of trees that are maturing well and enhance the interest of this parkland pasture.
The property, which is set well back from the road, is approached over a long, gravelled driveway to the point in front of the house where it splits and the option can be taken to park on the block paved area to the side of the house, bear right to the block paved yard off which the outbuildings and garages open or continue around to the barn on the gravelled drive. The drive conveniently continues back to the road through a 5-bar gate across the neighbouring barns shared access. To the rear of the house the formal garden is laid to lawn with well-tended flower beds and a terrace ideal for alfresco dining, pergola leading down to a garden house and is part high brick and flint wall enclosed with a Ha Ha and fence division to the pasture. There is also a ‘Gardeners Rest’ and Wc outbuilding with door to the front. The pond at the front of the property adds further to the charm of this super country home.

The house sits well in its land, with the trees and pond to the front, the main pasture area with tree planted to the rear (including an area formerly used as a vineyard that sides the road at the end) and the formal gardens, yard and outbuildings around the house and extending in all to around 10.22 acres with a arable farm fields to the rear. There are no public footpaths or rights of way across the land.

The properties excellent range of garages and outbuildings including the following:

• Two 6 car garage barns.

• Former stables, now utilised as garden and grounds store rooms.

• Large corner box/ log store

• Attached single storey barn/workshop which could also work for an ‘American box’ stable building if required.

LOCATION
Barningham Hall is well located in this peaceful semi-rural area north of the A14 and Bury St Edmunds in charming rolling countryside walking distance back to the village which affords a local Spar convenience store, a primary school, parish church and The Royal George public house. Nearby there can be found Knettishall Heath Nature Reserve and SSSI and Riddlesworth Hall Prep School. The owner’s boys went to Culford school near Bury St Edmunds, which is approximately a 25-minute drive. More comprehensive facilities can be found in the cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds which offers a full range of schooling, recreational and shopping facilities, including the Arc shopping centre. Cultural amenities include the impressive Georgian Theatre Royal and The Abbey Gardens, both of which are home to the annual festival. The nearby centres of Cambridge and Newmarket are within easy reach and the international airport at Stansted is about 52 miles away where, in addition to air services, there is an express train service to London. For road communications the A11 is within easy reach and for the rail commuter there are fast and regular services from Diss and Stowmarket, taking approximately 85 minutes from Stowmarket to London’s Liverpool Street.