Location

Despite its rural setting, the house is less than a mile from the popular village of Debenham that provides all the necessities of successful village life, including a butcher, hairdressers, a greengrocer, a post office, leisure centre, two pubs, and café, as a well as a super market and hardware store. Snape Maltings, an incredibly popular centre for music, independent shops, galleries & places to eat is about 20 miles away and Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk Heritage Coast, about 25 miles away. Well positioned in central Suffolk, Bryces Farm is within ready reach of Stowmarket and Ipswich rail stations with their main line connections to London's Liverpool Street.

DISTANCES
Stowmarket & A14 – 12 miles (London Liverpool Street Station 85 mins), Ipswich – 16 miles, Framlingham – 9 miles

Description

This wonderful country home sits in perfect isolation surrounded by a two-acre plot in the Suffolk countryside near Debenham. The dwelling is made up of a number of individual parts, including a beautifully converted barn, a 16th-Century grade II-listed farmhouse and adjoining outhouse, a pool house, swimming pool and a tennis court. The mature gardens encircle a central pond and lawns.

Accessed along a half-mile private drive that borders neighbouring fields, the house is approached via a gravelled parking area with space for a number of cars. The clapboard pool house, swimming pool and tennis court are organised in a self-contained section of the grounds to the right of the drive. To the left is a brick-laid path that leads to the elegantly converted barn, containing the principal living space, two bedrooms and mezzanine-level study / sitting room.

The centerpiece of the extraordinary double-height living space is an intricately designed end wall with an exposed structural formwork interspersed with glazing that looks out over fields beyond. The floor is laid with soft-toned terracotta bricks arranged in a herringbone pattern, beneath exposed brickwork and lime-washed oak beams. Original brick partitions are used to form room areas for reading or playing music.

The kitchen sits beneath the exposed beams of the mezzanine level, arranged around a large central island. Behind the scenes there is a pantry, and off the entrance hall, a utility room. Glazed doors open to a south-facing decked terrace.

The old farmhouse sits across the garden from the barn, providing a versatile alternative to the current living arrangement. Proportionally very different in style, the house has an endearing atmosphere and salvages many of the most charming original details, like exposed beams and flagstone floors.

The farmhouse has four bedrooms in total, a large living / dining room with beautiful brick fireplace, and a separate kitchen leading to a utility room and conservatory. The adjoining outhouse has been used as a games room / store, and is equipped with a regulated wine cellar.

Directions

POSTCODE FOR SAT NAV - IP14 6NP

From Debenham head north taking the last left hand turning by the primary school signposted Mendlesham. Turn first right signposted Mendlesham and Aspal onto Little London Hill. The road will bear sharply to the left followed by a sharp right and a second sharp left. Opposite Old Hall (for sat nav purposes use the post code for this property - IP14 6NP) on the right hand side turn left up the unmade track, following the signs to Bryces Farm.

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