A rare opportunity to purchase a unique detached family home, located in a sought after location of Ranworth, with its, staithe and twelfth century St Helen’s Church, known as the Cathedral of the Broads.
Formerly a school house built in the nineteenth century, and still retaining the school reading room outside, Hillbrook Lodge has undergone a number of improvements and now presents as a long standing, modern and spacious family home.
Located on a generous corner plot measuring nearly half of an acre, the property is screened from the road by a low brick wall and natural high hedging. To the front a brick weave driveway provides ample off-road parking and access to a double garage, via remote controlled doors and an additional parking space is available outside of the gate at the rear garden. An arch and timber gates give access to either side and rear of the property where a number of brick and timber outbuilding offer a variety of options for hobbies, work space or as further accommodation (Subject to the usual planning permission). To the rear a generous, south east facing, broad paved rear sun terrace with steps descends to a beautifully maintained lawn garden framed by mature trees and distant field views.
Accommodation at Hillbrook Lodge is arranged over two floors with a spacious entrance hallway, a convenient shower room, family lounge and separate snug dining room, both with feature fireplaces and double doors leading out to the rear terrace. A further sitting room or fifth bedroom with an en-suite shower room suitable for family members preferring ground floor accommodation, and a bright kitchen breakfast room. To the first floor, four bedrooms, the master with built in wardrobes, a family bathroom and a separate cloakroom completes the accommodation.
This fond family home is further complimented in its location; a short stroll to Malthouse Broad, St Helens Church, the Wildlife Centre and the Maltsters Pub. To the rear the property over looks Fairhaven Water Garden and only nine miles to the capital city of Norwich.
