Lithgo Paddock, The Coppice, Great Barton, Suffolk, IP31

A well presented and proportioned detached family house standing in a favoured quiet location within this sought-after village with easy access to the A14 and Bury St Edmunds.

Entrance hall, reception hall, sitting room, kitchen/dining room, utility room, study, ground floor bedroom and bathroom. First floor master bedroom with en-suite shower room, two further bedrooms and a family bathroom. Gated driveway and parking, detached double garage and wall and fence enclosed gardens.


THE PROPERTY
Eleigh Cottage is a superb, versatile modern family home built towards the end of last century and which presents colour washed rendered elevations under pan tiled roofs. Internally the property benefits from period home character with an authentic timber framed appearance throughout and a converted barn style layout. The property benefits from a modern fitted kitchen with a stylish Rangemaster cooker with electric induction hob and extractor hood above. There is also space for an upright fridge freezer and the Utility Room leads off the kitchen giving further space for electric ‘white goods’. The entrance hall leads into a spacious central reception hall with stairs leading to the first floor, double doors to the sitting room and is open plan to the kitchen/dining Room which has double aspect windows to the front and rear. A music room/study also leads off the reception hall and is fitted with bookshelves and hard wood flooring. The well-proportioned Sitting Room which has a Villager log burning stove fireplace, also affords full height windows opening to the rear garden along with a glazed door, ideal for entertaining and giving further versatility for access to the ground floor bedroom and a bathroom, with jacuzzi style bath, that both lead from an inner hall off the sitting room. On the first floor there is a spacious master bedroom with built in wardrobe cupboards and a stylishly fitted en-suite shower room with walk in shower with body jets, designer wash hand basin, wc and double-glazed Velux roof light window to the rear. There are two further bedrooms on this floor and a family bathroom.

OUTSIDE
Eleigh Cottage is approached to the front from Lithgo Paddock over a pedestrian path and alternatively from The Coppice to the rear, through a 5-bar gated access through a high brick and flint wall to the graveled driveway, capable of standing numerous vehicles, leading a detached double garage with up and over door. The good sized attractive south west facing rear gardens are predominantly laid to lawn with a terrace immediately outside the back of the house. There are many mature shrubs and trees, a garden shed and possible access from either side of the house to the front.

LOCATION
Eleigh Cottage is located in a highly regarded peaceful setting within the much sought after village of Great Barton, which itself offers the amenities of a ‘Outstanding’ OFSTED rated primary school, a garage on the main road with convenience store, the Bunbury Arms public house and the parish church. Both nearby Thurston and Bury St Edmunds have link line railway stations to mainline services and there are more extensive cultural and amenity facilities in the medieval cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds just 4 miles south west which offers an excellent range of 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. For the road commuter there is very easy access to the A14 leading east to the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich and the county town of Ipswich and west to Cambridge via the A11 (M11) to Stansted International Airport and onto the M25 leading to the capital. Mainline train services are also available from Stowmarket with London Liverpool Street taking approximately 80 minutes.