For Sale6 Bedroom House in Honey Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33£1,750,000

A superbly positioned and appointed townhouse of over 4,300 sq ft, with garaging, parking and low maintenance courtyard garden. <br/><br/>Entrance hall, dining room, Aga kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, games room, study, utility room, cloakroom, bedroom with adjacent shower wet room. Spiral wine cellar & traditional brick cellar. <br/><br/>First floor drawing room, master bedroom with dressing room & en-suite, two further bedrooms, two bath/shower rooms, landing room and a cloakroom. <br/><br/>Two second floor bedrooms and a shower room. <br/><br/>Paved frontage & parking, gated under croft vehicle access & further parking, double carport garaging, wall enclosed courtyard garden and a spacious roof terrace. <br/><br/>THE PROPERTY<br/>Brewsters is an outstanding and highly versatile town centre home that was built around 17 years ago by Mothersole Builders for the current owners to a very high standard and specification. The property offers luxurious comfort and space throughout being over 4,300 sq ft and connects to No.10 Sparhawk Street, a Grade II listed building with character features. <br/><br/>Brewsters presents a buff brick double fronted main elevation under a slate tiled roof with subservient rendered frontage incorporating the gated under croft access, under a clay pantile roof with charming characterful Driel window feature and side door access. No.10 Sparhawk Street is attached to the rear of Brewsters and is believed to date back to the C16th being timber framed with a rendered, jettied front elevation under a plain tiled roof to the front. <br/><br/>The spacious, well designed and arranged accommodation that Brewsters offers, benefits in the main from high quality hard wood timber framed double glazing and gas fired underfloor central heating to the ground and first floor and radiator heating to the second floor. The Sparhawk Street portion of the property enjoys double glazing to the extension, with secondary glazing to the front and single glazing to the rear with radiator central heating. <br/><br/>The accommodation in brief, leads in from the columned front porch and panelled front door with window light above, into a gracious entrance hall which features the stairs to the first floor, ½ glazed double doors into the kitchen/breakfast room and dining room and doors to a well-appointed cloakroom and understairs storage cupboard housing the underfloor heating manifold. The kitchen/breakfast/family room is well located within the home and has doors leading out to the under croft, rear terrace and parking areas and glazed double doors into the sitting room. Fitted with a comprehensive range of bespoke hand built ‘Bryan Turner’ base and eye level units with polished granite worksurfaces, underset sink, gas fired Aga range cooker with electric Aga mate to the side, integrated Fisher & Paykel drawer dishwasher, Neff microwave oven, oversized fridge/freezer and an island unit. Of particular note is the floor hatch that lifts to give access to a spiral staircase leading down to a ‘cylinder’ wine store. The room enjoys a lantern roof light and benefits from an air conditioning unit. The sitting room features French doors out to the rear courtyard garden and doors to a cloakroom and former kitchen (No.10 Sparhawk St) now used as a utility/store. A door leads down to a fabulous brick lined arched cellar below. There is also a games room and study which open from the Sparhawk Street entrance and stairs lead up to two exceptionally comfortable bedrooms, a landing room and two bath/shower rooms. <br/><br/>Continuing on the ground floor, separate from the main house and accessed from the rear, under croft and front side door is a utility room, bedroom and a shower wet room.<br/><br/>On the first floor the landing with stained glass porthole window to the rear gives access to the master bedroom suite, drawing room and a cloakroom. <br/><br/>The drawing room is well-proportioned with a wonderful outlook over St Mary’s church to the front and through French doors to the rear to a roof terrace. The room enjoys a semi-vaulted ceiling with speakers and downlighters and there is an open fireplace with stone mantle and surround, currently housing a log effect gas fire. The master bedroom has a double aspect to the front and side and enjoys views over St Mary’s church, The Great Churchyard and Cathedral Tower beyond. The room benefits from built-in and walk-in wardrobes and there is an en-suite bathroom with a bath, shower, double bowl wash basin unit, wc and bidet. <br/><br/>On the second floor there are two bedrooms and a shower room. <br/><br/>OUTSIDE<br/>Brewsters is set back from Honey Hill behind iron railings with stone and block paved frontage, providing parking and driveway access through hardwood double electric gates to the under croft and rear courtyard beyond with double carport garaging. <br/><br/>An archway leads into the charming, enclosed garden with terrace and flower and shrub borders, which abuts the sitting room. <br/><br/>A spiral staircase leads up to the roof terrace garden, above the garaging, which is wall and railing enclosed and mainly stone and brick paved with a central sculptural water feature. <br/><br/>LOCATION<br/>In a sought-after position with views to the front of St Mary’s Church, the house is within the historic core of Bury St Edmunds and only a short walk to the town centre, which offers an excellent range of amenities with schooling in the public and private sectors, extensive shopping facilities and a good range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. <br/><br/>Newmarket, the headquarters of racing, is only 14 miles away and the University City of Cambridge is only 28 miles away and offers unrivalled schooling opportunities and excellent shopping and amenity facilities. <br/><br/>There is good access to the A14 and A11 (M11) and the railway station at Bury St Edmunds offers a link to mainline services to London Liverpool Street and Kings Cross.<br/><br/>DIRECTIONS <br/>From the centre of Bury St Edmunds head south from the Angel Hill along Crown Street and onto Honey Hill, continue to where the road forks right and Brewsters will be found on your right. <br/><br/>PROPERTY INFORMATION<br/>Services Mains water, electricity, gas and drainage. Underfloor central heating on the ground & first floors. <br/>Radiator heating to the second floor. <br/>Local Authority West Suffolk Council <br/>Council Tax Band H<br/>Tenure Freehold<br/>Broadband Ofcom states speeds available of up to 1800Mbps<br/>Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes - depending on network provider. Please visit www.ofcom.org.uk to check availability.<br/>Viewing Only by appointment with Jackson-Stops Tel: 01284 700535<br/><br/>Agents Note 10 Honey Hill has pedestrian access across the front from the street to their garden gate.