House For Sale £775,000
Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33

A comfortable, well-proportioned detached Grade II listed home, standing at the end of Cannon Street, giving easy access to the town centre, with private enclosed garden, parking and garage.

Hallway, open plan kitchen/dining & sitting room, drawing room, utility room, cloakroom, conservatory garden room and a three-room cellar. First floor master bedroom with en-suite shower room, walk-in dressing room, three further bedrooms, family bathroom and a separate wc.

Fence & wall enclosed rear garden, off road parking and a detached garage.

THE PROPERTY
This excellent property was formerly a public house and is Grade II listed as ‘The New Inn and attached wall’, believed to date back to circa 1860, on an earlier site. This comfortable detached home, which principally presents white brick elevations under slate tiled roofs, with a later extension to the rear, has been sympathetically converted from the pub and retains some interesting characterful features such as the original salon bar with foot rail, some impressive and charming open and feature fireplaces, exposed floorboards and the three-room cellar, which could afford scope for further improvement.
The property has been owned and lived in by the vendors for the past 25 years, during which time it has been well maintained and they have further improved it with the addition of the stylish conservatory garden room that overlooks and gives access via modern bifold doors, to the excellent garden to the rear.
The accommodation in brief comprises a front door, with window light above, leading into the hall which gives access to the main ground floor reception rooms, the kitchen, stairs to the first floor and a door and separate trapdoor hatch down to the cellars. The drawing room is a spacious, light and airy room, benefiting from windows to three elevations and also features an outstanding Georgian fireplace with mantle shelf and surround, half paneled walls and former bar shelf, with built-in glazed and store cupboards. The kitchen is fitted with a comprehensive range of base and eye level units, with multi-level granite topped worksurfaces, inset sink, 4 ring gas hob with electric oven below and extractor hood above and opens, through the original bar, to the open plan dining and sitting/snug areas, which benefit, like the kitchen, from secondary glazed sash windows to the street and an internal window, opening to the conservatory garden room to the rear. The sitting area also affords the comfort of a log burning stove and the character of exposed floorboards and wall uplighting. To the rear of the house, is a useful quarry tile floored utility room with worksurface, butlers sink, space and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer and access into a cloakroom and the conservatory/garden room beyond. The cellar can be accessed from either the hall or via the ‘barrel roll’ steps from the external hatch opening, from the parking area to the rear. The three cellar rooms afford excellent potential scope for either further accommodation or storage/workshop areas and are the only part of the property in which any pre 1860 features are visible, with coursed flint walling in part with some stone blocks. The gas fired boiler is located in a boiler room accessed separately from the drive/parking area.
On the first floor, the landing leads to four double bedrooms, a family bathroom, separate wc and a walk-in dressing room cupboard/box room. The main bedroom is a well-proportioned room with sash windows to the front and side, exposed floorboards and a feature fireplace. The en-suite shower room features a corner shower enclosure, low flush wc, bidet, ‘Heritage’ wash basin vanity unit and a radiator towel rail. The other bedrooms benefit from built-in cupboards, while the fourth is currently used as a studio, with built- in worksurface, sink and storage. The family bathroom presents a panel enclosed bath with separate shower over the bath, wash basin set into a worksurface and the airing cupboard, with a window giving a view to the rear garden. A separate wc opens off the landing next to the bathroom.

OUTSIDE
To the side of the house there is a gated area of hard standing providing space, to the side of the garage, to park a car off the road. There is pedestrian gated access to the rear garden from this area, a door to the rear hallway, barrel roll hatch down to the cellars and doors to the external boiler cupboard and the detached single garage, that has painted red doors opening to Cannon Street. To the rear, the south facing garden benefits from a high degree of privacy, being wall and fence enclosed and is raised above the street level with steps down to the pedestrian gate access set into the wall, to the Northgate Street side. As the property has been owned and tended by the same owners for the past 25 years, it enjoys mature planted beds and borders, with a prolific fig tree, paved pathways, lawn and a garden shed. The orientation and raised nature of the garden means that the sun is on it from morning through to evening throughout the year creating an ideal alfresco dining and entertaining area.

LOCATION
Northgate Street and Cannon Street, between which the property stands, are generally regarded as good residential streets within the town, that offer a pleasing mix of period and more modern housing (at the lower end of Cannon Street) and sits within the Bury St Edmunds Town Centre Conservation Area, Within easy walking distance of the town centre, which offers extensive schooling in both the public and private sectors, a wide range of shopping facilities and amenities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. The property is also conveniently located for easy access to the train station (0.2miles). The University City of Cambridge is approximately 28 miles away and Stowmarket 12 miles away, which offers a fast and regular mainline train service to London Liverpool Street, taking approximately 85 minutes. For the road commuter there is excellent access to the A14 and A11(M11).