Guide price
£600,000
4 bed detached house for saleThe Street, Thornham Magna, Eye, Suffolk IP23
4 beds
2 baths
3 receptions
Just added
Freehold
About this property
Attractive period village house set back from the road
Superb rooms with a wealth of character throughout
Annex potential/studio/games room
Delightful front and back gardens
Garage and parking. About 0.25 acre
An attractive 16th-century village house with partially walled garden and studio.
Description
Situated within this well-regarded rural village, Lambs Farm House is a fine Grade II listed home, believed to date back to the early 16th-century and built of traditional timber-frame construction under a reed thatched roof.
The property has been a much-loved home of the present owners for almost 50 years, and during that time has been well-maintained and lovingly restored, cleverly enhancing the original fabric with bespoke high-quality detail and improvements throughout.
The original features are particularly notable, to include a wonderful, exposed timber frame, Tudor arches and carved bressummer, inglenook fireplaces, mullion windows and attractive period internal doors.
The accommodation is arranged over two floors, extending to around 2,300 sq ft with well-proportioned rooms and a high degree of natural light comprising entrance hall with tiled flooring access to a laundry and shower room. The kitchen and breakfast room are fitted with traditional base and wall mounted units with marble worktops, twin Belfast sink with wood drainer, integrated two-drawer dishwasher, stone floor and space for breakfast table and dresser, and a fireplace.
The sitting/drawing room is a wonderful, elegant reception room, with tiled floors and underfloor heating, red-brick fireplace with carved wood mantel and door to the front entrance. The dining room enjoys a double-aspect, with inglenook fireplace.
There is a study/garden room with windows and glazed French doors to the rear garden as well as a ground-floor double-aspect bathroom with underfloor heating, with traditional freestanding ball-and-claw bath, low level WC and pedestal wash basin.
The stair hall features storage and a beautifully hand-crafted staircase leading to a first-floor landing. The four bedrooms are all of good size, with double-aspect overlooking the gardens, with three having their own storage and wardrobes.
Outside
Lambs Farm House is approached from the village lane onto a side gravelled driveway, with turning space and its own garage to the rear. There is an adjoining outbuilding to the house, with workshop/garden store leading through to a studio/garden room with wood-burning stove. The garden is delightful with seating areas and an original well.
Location
The peaceful hamlet of Thornham Magna is the sister village of Thornham Parva on the former estate of Thornham Hall, the Henniker family seat. Thornham Walks are open to the public and is also used as a lovely Park Run location. The A140 Ipswich/Norwich road is approximately 1 mile to the east and 3.5 miles from the town of Eye. Shopping facilities are available in Eye together with its schooling, health centre and local hospital. The market town of Diss provides further shopping, cultural, educational and recreational facilities. The larger market towns of Stowmarket and Diss and the county town of Ipswich are readily accessible with large shopping centres, and the commuter can take advantage of direct train service links to London's Liverpool Street Station from either Stowmarket or Diss.
Square Footage: 2,325 sq ft
Acreage:
0.25 Acres
Directions
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Additional Info
Listed building entry
House. Early C16, stack inserted early C17, extended early C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Half hipped thatched roof. Small 5 bay, 3 cell cross passage plan, altered to lobby entrance. Always 2 storeys throughout. Lobby entrance to left of centre with a boarded architraved door, C19 gabled trellissed porch with cusped bargeboarding, C19 and C20 3-light glazing bar casements, 2 lights to right or service bay. Traces of panelled pargetting with zigzag patterning survive. Axial ridge stack towards left inserted in parlour. To rear left a clay lump and pantiled lean-to addition. To rear right early C19 red brick and clay lump, pantiled 2 storey service addition with a door towards front, further 1 storey addition. Interior: Close studding, hall has stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, chamfered mid- rail, restored 4-centred arched door heads to screens passage, a single 4- centred arched headed chamfered dorway to service end with trimmer joist for original stairs, 3 and 4-light diamond, square and rectangular mullioned window openings, chamfered 4 centred arched gauged brick fireplace to stack replacing original smoke hood, reduced parlour has a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts. First floor: Arched braces to open truss, reverse curved arched bracing in closed trusses and in walling, chamfered tie beams, always ceiled. Crown post roof, square posts with cranked arched braces to collar purlin, downward cranked braces to tie beams, a gap for original smoke hood.
Mains water, drainage and electricity • Electric underfloor and storage heating
Description
Situated within this well-regarded rural village, Lambs Farm House is a fine Grade II listed home, believed to date back to the early 16th-century and built of traditional timber-frame construction under a reed thatched roof.
The property has been a much-loved home of the present owners for almost 50 years, and during that time has been well-maintained and lovingly restored, cleverly enhancing the original fabric with bespoke high-quality detail and improvements throughout.
The original features are particularly notable, to include a wonderful, exposed timber frame, Tudor arches and carved bressummer, inglenook fireplaces, mullion windows and attractive period internal doors.
The accommodation is arranged over two floors, extending to around 2,300 sq ft with well-proportioned rooms and a high degree of natural light comprising entrance hall with tiled flooring access to a laundry and shower room. The kitchen and breakfast room are fitted with traditional base and wall mounted units with marble worktops, twin Belfast sink with wood drainer, integrated two-drawer dishwasher, stone floor and space for breakfast table and dresser, and a fireplace.
The sitting/drawing room is a wonderful, elegant reception room, with tiled floors and underfloor heating, red-brick fireplace with carved wood mantel and door to the front entrance. The dining room enjoys a double-aspect, with inglenook fireplace.
There is a study/garden room with windows and glazed French doors to the rear garden as well as a ground-floor double-aspect bathroom with underfloor heating, with traditional freestanding ball-and-claw bath, low level WC and pedestal wash basin.
The stair hall features storage and a beautifully hand-crafted staircase leading to a first-floor landing. The four bedrooms are all of good size, with double-aspect overlooking the gardens, with three having their own storage and wardrobes.
Outside
Lambs Farm House is approached from the village lane onto a side gravelled driveway, with turning space and its own garage to the rear. There is an adjoining outbuilding to the house, with workshop/garden store leading through to a studio/garden room with wood-burning stove. The garden is delightful with seating areas and an original well.
Location
The peaceful hamlet of Thornham Magna is the sister village of Thornham Parva on the former estate of Thornham Hall, the Henniker family seat. Thornham Walks are open to the public and is also used as a lovely Park Run location. The A140 Ipswich/Norwich road is approximately 1 mile to the east and 3.5 miles from the town of Eye. Shopping facilities are available in Eye together with its schooling, health centre and local hospital. The market town of Diss provides further shopping, cultural, educational and recreational facilities. The larger market towns of Stowmarket and Diss and the county town of Ipswich are readily accessible with large shopping centres, and the commuter can take advantage of direct train service links to London's Liverpool Street Station from either Stowmarket or Diss.
Square Footage: 2,325 sq ft
Acreage:
0.25 Acres
Directions
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Additional Info
Listed building entry
House. Early C16, stack inserted early C17, extended early C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Half hipped thatched roof. Small 5 bay, 3 cell cross passage plan, altered to lobby entrance. Always 2 storeys throughout. Lobby entrance to left of centre with a boarded architraved door, C19 gabled trellissed porch with cusped bargeboarding, C19 and C20 3-light glazing bar casements, 2 lights to right or service bay. Traces of panelled pargetting with zigzag patterning survive. Axial ridge stack towards left inserted in parlour. To rear left a clay lump and pantiled lean-to addition. To rear right early C19 red brick and clay lump, pantiled 2 storey service addition with a door towards front, further 1 storey addition. Interior: Close studding, hall has stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, chamfered mid- rail, restored 4-centred arched door heads to screens passage, a single 4- centred arched headed chamfered dorway to service end with trimmer joist for original stairs, 3 and 4-light diamond, square and rectangular mullioned window openings, chamfered 4 centred arched gauged brick fireplace to stack replacing original smoke hood, reduced parlour has a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts. First floor: Arched braces to open truss, reverse curved arched bracing in closed trusses and in walling, chamfered tie beams, always ceiled. Crown post roof, square posts with cranked arched braces to collar purlin, downward cranked braces to tie beams, a gap for original smoke hood.
Mains water, drainage and electricity • Electric underfloor and storage heating
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