House For Sale £1,150,000
Wickham St Paul
What we Say at The Zoe Napier Group
What a wonderful opportunity for the incoming buyer where the farmhouse provides a delightful family home with the potential for equestrian facilities as well as the conversion of the outbuildings into potential holiday lets, classic car storage, stables, or an annex. The surrounding bridleways and footpaths are unsurpassed on the undulating Essex/Suffolk border.
What The Owners Say
This was our late parents’ home of over 40 years. We have all enjoyed the property with the grandchildren playing in the mature grounds, woodland, and rear meadow, (where there is a pond), to family gatherings and parties being enjoyed in the leisure building. We will be sad to see the house go and equally hope the incoming buyers will embrace the property as our family has.
History & Background
A most attractive double-fronted traditional Essex Farmhouse, dating back to the mid 16th century in part, listed as Grade II and offered with an extensive range of outbuildings, whilst situated in an enviable position overlooking the extensive village green and cricket pitch. The property, offered with 3.8 acres, has been in the same ownership for some 40 years and in the early 1980’s it underwent major restoration (stripped back
to the timber frame), where the late owners lived on-site in a mobile home during these works. The owners interestingly, documented photographic evidence of the works with the ‘then, during, and now’ imagery. The quality of this restoration remains evident today with its solid oak internal doors, attractive fireplaces, and other characterful features including a semi-vaulted ceiling on the landing to display the magnificent Crown post. Whilst the property now requires a modest level of updating, it provides immediate well-presented accommodation with unusually high ceilings and bright rooms (several rooms being dual aspect) with delightful views over the village green from its tall sash windows. The outbuildings provide excellent barn storage with a workshop, garaging, and a separate detached ancillary/leisure building, and the meadow beyond, covenanted against any future residential development (no housing), offers a fabulous opportunity for equestrian use or simply to retain as a private area for re-wilding and/or rural related activities.
Setting & Location
The property is nestled back off The Village Green adjacent to one of the two village ponds, adjacent to the Village Hall. A driveway leads to an extensive area for parking (with space to expand the parking) providing access to the courtyard arrangement of outbuildings and house. The mature gardens and buildings extend to just under one acre with a field gate leading immediately into the rear meadow where there is a central natural pond with Weeping Willow and a field gate onto Church Road. Wickham St Paul is a highly sought-after village on the Essex/Suffolk border, largely centred around a vast village green where there are the immediate local facilities of a village hall (with part-time post office), The Victory Inn pub, overlooking the green, and a vibrant Farm Shop (Cox’s at Spencer’s Farm) which has a restaurant, children’s activity/play area, pick your own area and more. The village has a richly supportive and varied community atmosphere where there are many annual events, (ranging from the village dog show to a scarecrow competition as well as Trafalgar Day fireworks), alongside regular clubs and activities including a village cricket team who plays on the green during the summer months. The village is largely surrounded by open countryside with an extensive network of footpaths and bridleways from which to enjoy off-road rural walks, cycle routes, and some fantastic horse riding. School busses collect children from outside the village pub for the local primary and secondary schools with good Ofsted reports. Shopping is via the nearest market towns of Halstead and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Agents Notes
1) here are three title deeds that form the sale. EX613851 (House & Garden) EX588351 (strip of land) EX935219 (Farm Buildings and Rear Meadow)
2) Title Number EX935219 (the rear meadow/paddock area part only) has a covenant restricting any residential or commercial development. The land is to remain for agricultural, equestrian uses, or for the purposes of
encouraging wildlife/re-wilding. Equestrian/agricultural facilities would be permitted, subject to the required planning permissions.
3) Historically (for planning applications for equestrian facilities), the meadow has had horses grazing on the land for well over ten years. However, the existing outbuildings adjacent to the farmhouse may be a preferred
setting for stables.
4) Broadband access is excellent within the village with existing fibre speed options from both BT and County Broadband.
5) The adjacent village hall is available to hire. It is generally used for community and club meetings, occasional fundraising evenings, occasional function hire, and on the rare occasion, a wedding reception (usually for a
local couple), where a marquee has been permitted on the green. The village cricket team uses the pavilion and hall usually bi-weekly on a Sunday and all are welcome to watch and support the team. The hall is
considered an asset as opposed to being of any disturbance.
6) A Bramford, Ipswich to Twinstead, Near Sudbury National Grid substation is planned on the A131 south of Sudbury between Waldergrave wood and Butler’s Wood. (Approximately 1.2 miles from the property).
7) Braintree Council Tax Band F
What we Say at The Zoe Napier Group
What a wonderful opportunity for the incoming buyer where the farmhouse provides a delightful family home with the potential for equestrian facilities as well as the conversion of the outbuildings into potential holiday lets, classic car storage, stables, or an annex. The surrounding bridleways and footpaths are unsurpassed on the undulating Essex/Suffolk border.
What The Owners Say
This was our late parents’ home of over 40 years. We have all enjoyed the property with the grandchildren playing in the mature grounds, woodland, and rear meadow, (where there is a pond), to family gatherings and parties being enjoyed in the leisure building. We will be sad to see the house go and equally hope the incoming buyers will embrace the property as our family has.
History & Background
A most attractive double-fronted traditional Essex Farmhouse, dating back to the mid 16th century in part, listed as Grade II and offered with an extensive range of outbuildings, whilst situated in an enviable position overlooking the extensive village green and cricket pitch. The property, offered with 3.8 acres, has been in the same ownership for some 40 years and in the early 1980’s it underwent major restoration (stripped back
to the timber frame), where the late owners lived on-site in a mobile home during these works. The owners interestingly, documented photographic evidence of the works with the ‘then, during, and now’ imagery. The quality of this restoration remains evident today with its solid oak internal doors, attractive fireplaces, and other characterful features including a semi-vaulted ceiling on the landing to display the magnificent Crown post. Whilst the property now requires a modest level of updating, it provides immediate well-presented accommodation with unusually high ceilings and bright rooms (several rooms being dual aspect) with delightful views over the village green from its tall sash windows. The outbuildings provide excellent barn storage with a workshop, garaging, and a separate detached ancillary/leisure building, and the meadow beyond, covenanted against any future residential development (no housing), offers a fabulous opportunity for equestrian use or simply to retain as a private area for re-wilding and/or rural related activities.
Setting & Location
The property is nestled back off The Village Green adjacent to one of the two village ponds, adjacent to the Village Hall. A driveway leads to an extensive area for parking (with space to expand the parking) providing access to the courtyard arrangement of outbuildings and house. The mature gardens and buildings extend to just under one acre with a field gate leading immediately into the rear meadow where there is a central natural pond with Weeping Willow and a field gate onto Church Road. Wickham St Paul is a highly sought-after village on the Essex/Suffolk border, largely centred around a vast village green where there are the immediate local facilities of a village hall (with part-time post office), The Victory Inn pub, overlooking the green, and a vibrant Farm Shop (Cox’s at Spencer’s Farm) which has a restaurant, children’s activity/play area, pick your own area and more. The village has a richly supportive and varied community atmosphere where there are many annual events, (ranging from the village dog show to a scarecrow competition as well as Trafalgar Day fireworks), alongside regular clubs and activities including a village cricket team who plays on the green during the summer months. The village is largely surrounded by open countryside with an extensive network of footpaths and bridleways from which to enjoy off-road rural walks, cycle routes, and some fantastic horse riding. School busses collect children from outside the village pub for the local primary and secondary schools with good Ofsted reports. Shopping is via the nearest market towns of Halstead and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Agents Notes
1) here are three title deeds that form the sale. EX613851 (House & Garden) EX588351 (strip of land) EX935219 (Farm Buildings and Rear Meadow)
2) Title Number EX935219 (the rear meadow/paddock area part only) has a covenant restricting any residential or commercial development. The land is to remain for agricultural, equestrian uses, or for the purposes of
encouraging wildlife/re-wilding. Equestrian/agricultural facilities would be permitted, subject to the required planning permissions.
3) Historically (for planning applications for equestrian facilities), the meadow has had horses grazing on the land for well over ten years. However, the existing outbuildings adjacent to the farmhouse may be a preferred
setting for stables.
4) Broadband access is excellent within the village with existing fibre speed options from both BT and County Broadband.
5) The adjacent village hall is available to hire. It is generally used for community and club meetings, occasional fundraising evenings, occasional function hire, and on the rare occasion, a wedding reception (usually for a
local couple), where a marquee has been permitted on the green. The village cricket team uses the pavilion and hall usually bi-weekly on a Sunday and all are welcome to watch and support the team. The hall is
considered an asset as opposed to being of any disturbance.
6) A Bramford, Ipswich to Twinstead, Near Sudbury National Grid substation is planned on the A131 south of Sudbury between Waldergrave wood and Butler’s Wood. (Approximately 1.2 miles from the property).
7) Braintree Council Tax Band F
