5 bed detached house for sale

North Street, Hundon, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10

Street farm is a versatile and well-proportioned period property, offering many charming original features throughout. The house, which dates back to the 17th and 18th century, has benefitted from a rear extension along with a loft conversion which now provides ideal accommodation for a large family.

Located centrally in this popular and well served village within walking distance of all facilities, the property also provides plenty of off-street parking, 2 former stables and storeroom and an outdoor swimming pool.

Accommodation comprises an elegant hallway with original tessellated flooring, dating back to Victorian times, with a staircase leading to the first floor.

The property offers 3 large reception rooms, all with fireplaces containing wood burning stoves with other features including exposed brick chimney breasts and beams throughout.

The hub of the home is the large kitchen/dining room which overlooks the rear garden and is fitted with a range of base units with double Butler sink inset to granite work tops. Appliances include a Bosch dishwasher, oil fired aga and adjacent Everhot cooker. A large original walk-in larder is fully shelved and there are further built in storage cupboards. The utility room houses the Camray oil fired boiler and has plumbing for a washing machine and space for a tumble dryer, a butler sink and a deep shelved cupboard. Adjacent is a cloakroom and a side door leads to the rear garden.

A further formal rear entrance hallway with brick flooring has double doors leading to the kitchen and an adjacent boot room. To the far end of the reception rooms, an inner hallway leads to a small room which could serve as a 2nd kitchen for a dependant relative and a ground floor shower room. The adjacent snug could be turned into a bedroom if required.

The first floor provides a master bedroom suite accessed via a 2nd staircase with ensuite and offers a twin aspect and ensuite bathroom with dressing area with 2 fitted wardrobes. There are 3 more bedrooms on the first floor and a family bathroom. To the rear of the landing a turning staircase leads to the 2nd floor bedrooms and a shower room.

Outside the property has a walled front garden with pathway and floral boarders. The rear of the property is accessed via the driveway with two entrance gates. The former stables have been converted to storage rooms which could be converted to an outside office or gym. The swimming pool is gated and a pathway leads to the formal lawned gardens which are well stocked with mature trees and shrubs with a former vegetable garden.

Hundon is a small village situated on the borders of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex, and has a thriving community with many local amenities and facilities including a popular pre-school and primary school, village pub and village hall, thriving community shop, church, playing fields with Astroturf sports facilities including tennis courts and a recently updated children’s play area. There are strong family-based sporting teams including young football and cricket teams as well as evening adult 5-a-side football and hockey. The village is well served by local state schools and has the opportunity of private education at Barnadiston (4 miles). Further amenities are available from Clare (3 miles) to the southeast, the large cathedral and market town of Bury St Edmunds (14 miles) to the northeast and the market town of Saffron Walden (19 miles) lying to the west and only about 22 miles from Cambridge with trains to London from the new Cambridge South, and Cambridge North.