House For Sale £795,000
Bury St. Edmunds

Detached town centre house, fully renovated with 2 reception rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and walled garden

11 High Baxter Street is a Grade II listed townhouse sitting within the town centre conservation area, whose extensive and sympathetic restoration, undertaken by the Bury Town Trust in partnership with a number of highly skilled local contractors, now nears completion. They have managed to preserve, enhance and modernise this historic property for a more sustainable future. The original historic fabric dates back to the late 15th century, with changes in both the 16th and 17th centuries when the attic was converted, staircase and chimney stacks were added. In the late 18th and 19th centuries a further remodelling with more fundamental changes in the 1970s, when the building was adapted for multiple occupancy.

The first-floor layout still survives and much of the original fabric, where possible, has been retained and inappropriate materials, such as the hard render, has been removed and replaced with more sympathetic materials appropriate for a timber-framed medieval structure. Together with a meticulous programme of rewiring, plumbing and installation of solar panels, an air source heat pump and extensive insulation. A late 20th century single-storey extension at the rear was removed and has been replaced with a more contemporary open-plan kitchen/family room with a utility and cloakroom. To the rear is a private walled garden.

Briefly it comprises

RECEPTION HALL – 12’4” x 11’.10” minimum – with large refurbished inglenook fireplace with large carved bressummer beam on Hadleigh stone pillars, exposed studwork and high timbered ceiling.

SITTING ROOM – 17’.9” x 14’.9” – with high timbered ceiling, exposed beams, double-aspect room with shelved alcove and expose red brick chimney breast with open fireplace.

STAIR HALL with staircase to first-floor with galleried opening in to kitchen, with exposed reclaimed panelling.

KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM – 21’.3” x 12’.4” – with high mono-pitch vaulted ceiling with high-level lights, sliding doors to terrace and garden, extensively fitted kitchen with peninsular, providing ample work surface, inset sink and drainer unit, built-in dishwasher, fridge, freezer, oven, microwave and induction hob, sliding door to terrace and garden.

CLOAKROOM with low-level WC and wash hand basin.

UTILITY

FIRST FLOOR

LANDING with understairs storage cupboard.

BEDROOM ONE – 14’.2” x 13’.1” max overall with shelved storage and exposed beam.

SHOWER ROOM – 11’.5” x 5’.9” max overall in to large tiled shower cubicle with overhead rain and hand shower, shelved alcove and twin vanity unit with wash basins and WC.

BEDROOM TWO – 14’.2” x 12’.10”

SECOND FLOOR

BEDROOM THREE – 9’.10” x 9’.9” in to the eaves max overall, excluding three wardrobe cupboards.

BEDROOM FOUR – 9’ x 8’.4” in to the eaves.

BATHROOM – 12’.10” x 7’ max in to the eaves, with panel bath, large walk-in shower cubicle, exposed timbers, vanity unit with inset basin, heated towel rail and WC.

OUTSIDE is a split-level terrace within a generous walled garden.

Services: Mains water, electricity, drainage, fibre broadband, photovoltaic solar panels, and air source heat pump.

Local Authority: West Suffolk – Council Tax Band D.

Leasehold: 999-year lease.

Ground rent: £1 per annum.