Cottage for sale in The Street, Bramford, Ipswich, Suffolk IP8

The property occupies a prominent position in the heart of this historic, well served village centre. Bramford offers café, village stores and post office, a public house, pharmacy and primary schooling. The county town of Ipswich is approximately three miles distance offering a wide range of shopping and recreational facilities including mainline railway link to London's Liverpool Street. The A14 trunk road offers access in an easterly direction to the A12, Ipswich and Felixstowe and in a westerly direction to Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge and onto the Midlands.

This charming, unlisted period house displays a wealth of period features associated with this era including red brick fireplaces, recently fitted with modern wood burning stoves, exposed timber frame, ledge & brace doors and stripped and polished floors. This deceptive house is larger than it first appears offering two generous reception rooms with a, most impressive farmhouse style kitchen to the rear overlooking the garden. There is a further large utility room and ground floor shower room. The spacious first floor landing provides access to four large double bedrooms and second shower room. The property further benefits from modern gas fired heating to radiators and has recent PVC double glazed windows and doors. The exceptional rear garden is of large proportions with walled boundary, now somewhat overgrown but offering enormous potential with pedestrian access to the rear. Internal viewing is essential to appreciate the features and size of the accommodation overall.

Entrance hall:
Modern PVC double glazed entrance door, period pine doors leading to the sitting and dining rooms.

Sitting room:
12' 4" x 12' 4" (3.76m x 3.76m) Stripped and polished pine floor, radiator, exposed ceiling beams, attractive red brick original fireplace with quarry tiled hearth inset with recently installed woodburning stove, pine ledge & brace doors, door to the staircase, modern PVC double glazed window to the front aspect.

Dining room:
12' 3" x 12' 0" (3.73m x 3.66m) Wood effect flooring, radiator, attractive period red brick fireplace with open grate, brick hearth, modern PVC double glazed window to the front aspect.

Kitchen/breakfast room:
14' 5" x 11' 4" (4.39m x 3.45m) Fitted with a generous range of base and wall mounted units having shaker style doors and drawer fronts, fitted worktops inset with stainless steel single bowl sink unit with mixer tap, integrated Neff stainless steel and glass fan assisted oven, black glass ceramic hob above and extractor hood connected over, feature period fireplace with recently fitted woodburning stove, tiled floor, radiator, PVC double glazed window and glazed PVC door opening to the rear garden.

Utility room:
11' 3" x 7' 8" (3.43m x 2.34m) Feature period open fireplace, tiled floor, wall mounted storage cupboards, 6'3" long shelved lobby, PVC double glazed window and door opening to the rear garden.

Shower room:
8' 4" x 6' 8" (2.54m x 2.03m) Modern white suite comprises low level wc, pedestal wash hand basin and double shower tray with fixed glazed screen, chrome towel radiator, tiled floor.

Partly galleried landing:
16' 9" x 9' 8" (5.11m x 2.95m) At the longest points. Stripped and polished pine floor, access to the loft space, PVC double glazed window to the front aspect.

Bedroom 1:
15' 0" x 11' 4" (4.57m x 3.45m) Radiator, chimney breast with Victorian style black iron fireplace, modern wall mounted gas fired boiler, PVC double glazed window overlooking the rear garden.

Bedroom 2:
12' 7" x 10' 8" (3.84m x 3.25m) Radiator, good range of built-in wardrobes inset with fitted shelves and hanging rails, PVC double glazed window to the front aspect.

Bedroom 3:
13' 2" x 9' 10" (4.01m x 3m) Radiator, space for wardrobes, PVC double glazed window to the front aspect.

Bedroom 4:
11' 6" x 9' 9" (3.51m x 2.97m) Radiator, space for wardrobes, PVC double glazed window overlooking the rear garden.

Shower room:
7' 0" x 5' 0" (2.13m x 1.52m) Wall mounted wash hand basin, wc and shower enclosure, chrome towel radiator.

Outside:
The large rear garden comprises patio and gravel seating areas leading to a brick and timber open fronted store, this in turn leads to further areas of garden, former vegetable plot with original walled boundary, timber summer house, mature fruit trees and flowering shrubs fenced, walled and hedged boundaries. To the far end of the garden there is a pedestrian gate and path leading to Ravens Lane.

Postcode: IP8 4EB

energy rating: C 78

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