Price changed to £850,000
May 15, 2025
Listed for £899,500
November 2, 2024
Sold for £565,000
2011
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On the first floor a small landing with double-glazed window to the front has a useful ‘home office’ unit built-in with desk, shelving and cupboard. A three-plank original latch door opens to the main bedroom which has a semi vaulted ceiling, double-glazed windows, built-in wardrobe cupboards to one wall and an en-suite bathroom. Bedroom two has windows to the front and side, a door to an airing cupboard and also enjoys a stylishly fitted en-suite shower room.
A connecting hall leads through to a third shower room and bedroom three, which has a semi-vaulted ceiling with exposed timber frame, windows to the side and rear and stairs down to the kitchen.
There is an integrated garage with a door to the reception hall, double doors to the front, workshop area and storage space, a connecting door and step down to the garden storeroom, with double doors to the rear.
OUTSIDE
The house is set back behind a high hedge to the front with spacious gravelled drive and parking area to the front capable of easily accommodating several vehicles and giving access to the integral garage and to the side, via the covered veranda space, the rear garden. The outstanding grounds extend to around 0.25 of an acre being mainly fence and hedge enclosed with landscaped paved terrace, ideal for alfresco entertaining, that steps down into the sunken garden and beyond too another terrace with a water feature. The gardens are laid to lawn with shrub and flower beds and borders and there is a separate kitchen garden area with vegetable beds and fruit trees incorporating Quince, Medlar, Mulberry, Plum, Damson and a grape vine arch. The garden also benefits from a substantial garden house, currently used as an exercise room and of particular note a very useful underground 3,800 litre rainwater harvester tank, ideal for use during drought conditions.
LOCATION
Fiddler Simpson’s Cottage is situated on the northern outskirts of Lavenham, close to the delightful Lavenham circular walk and award-winning Dyehouse Field Wood, within walking distance from the centre of the village, which contains many fine period houses and cottages and is often described as one of England’s finest preserved medieval villages with its fortunes arising from the wool trade in the 15th and 16th centuries. The village has a magnificent parish church and a wonderful selection of ancient houses and cottages from Tudor timber buildings, through to Georgian period and the Victorian era.
Today the village is very vibrant with the most active community and useful range of shops including a Butchers, post office, pharmacy, bakery, traditional grocers, a modern Co-Op, well regarded primary school and doctors’ surgery. There are also a selection of interesting shops and galleries, fine public houses and restaurants, such as The Greyhound Pub, The Great House Restaurant and The Swan Hotel.
DIRECTIONS
From Bury St Edmunds head south towards Sudbury on the A134 passing through the villages of Sicklesmere and Bradfield Combust. Take the left turning signposted Lavenham (A1141) and follow this road until you reach the outskirts of Lavenham. As you proceed over the brow of the hill, Fiddler Simpson’s Cottage will be found on the left.
PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water, electricity and drainage.
- 24 Fitted Solar Panels affording 7.2KW
- 13.5 KWH Tesla Powerwall Battery also affording power cut backup.
- Zappi Car Charger included.
- Eddi hot-water solar diverter that has enabled the current owner the opportunity to turn the gas supply off during the summer months.
Local Authority Babergh District Council
Council Tax Band F
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Ofcom states speeds currently available of up to 55Mbps but with Gigaclear currently running fibre to the property this should soon lift to 1000Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes
Viewing Only by appointment with Jackson-Stops. Tel.