• A superb, well-presented Grade II listed property +
• Scope for improvement +
• Centrally located within this popular village +
• 3 Reception rooms +
• 4 Bedrooms & 2 bath/shower rooms +
• Driveway & parking +
• Outbuilding with utility room +
• Former garage/workshop store +
• Low maintenance enclosed rear garden +
• Formerly part commercial property +

A superb, well-presented Grade II listed property affording further scope for improvement, with garden, drive & parking; centrally located within this popular, well served Suffolk village.

Entrance porch, drawing room, dining room, garden room, kitchen/breakfast room (for completion), pantry store (off possible kitchen), inner & rear halls, shower room, store and a cellar.

First floor landing study space, sitting room/potential main bedroom, bedroom with dressing room/nursery bedroom, guest bedroom, family bathroom, separate cloakroom, kitchen/ 4th bedroom and a snug/bedroom.

Driveway & parking, outbuilding with utility room, former garage/workshop store and low maintenance enclosed rear garden.

THE PROPERTY
68 High Street was formerly known as Theobald’s, a well-regarded restaurant that hosted diners in the characterful front two reception rooms of this beautiful period property. The building is Grade II listed, with earlier origins as a shop, with two slightly bowed shop windows to the front and is mainly of a high status timber framed construction with brick plinth, rendered upper front and side elevations under a glazed clay pantile roof to the main frontage and to the rear partially timber clad, painted render and brick elevations under a mix of clay pantile and slate roofs.

The accommodation in brief leads in from a half-glazed door from the steps to the front, into a hall with traditional latch door opening to the drawing room. This room boasts a wonderful inglenook fireplace with bresummer beam, fire hood and exposed Tudor brick work, and features exposed heavy timber framework that is understood to date back to the early 16th century. A doorway opening connects to the open plan dining/garden rooms which enjoy the light from the former shop windows and unused ½ glazed door to the front, and double-glazed patio doors to the rear. The room boasts the exposed original timber frame and has stud partitions to the front and rear. The stud partition to the front can be removed if desired, however the rear partition cannot be removed as is part of the original framework. This room affords, alongside the further accommodation good scope for versatile change of use, perhaps as an open plan kitchen/living room as an option (subject to the relevant consents). A latch door leads through from the drawing room, via the oak panelled inner hall to the rear hall, former commercial kitchen room and storeroom (that could connect, if required, through to the garden room). The storeroom has a shelved wall, and a trap door that gives access down to the cellar. Change of use works have been completed, in the main, for the alteration of the former commercial kitchens to an additional spacious reception room or potentially outstanding family/breakfast room, with double glazed window and glazed French doors with side screen windows that open to the rear garden, and a short passage off to a larder/pantry store, with part exposed brick floor. The rear hallway has a ½ glazed door to the garden and two secondary glazed windows to the rear with a door also giving access to the ground floor shower room, which features a corner shower cubicle with electric Mira shower, wash basin unit with cupboard below, a radiator towel rail and a low flush wc. Stairs lead to the first floor with a useful under stairs storage cupboard below.