An attractive Grade II listed cottage with 3-car garage adjoining fields, situated within this well-served village between Diss and Bury St Edmunds.
Set back in private gardens adjoining fields, Endings is an attractive and well-presented Grade II listed village house believed to date back to the 16th-century, built of traditional timber-frame construction with rendered elevations under a thatched roofline with a later modern two-storey addition.
The accommodation offers versatile and spacious accommodation arranged over two floors extending to 2,400ft2, with a high degree of natural light throughout and many notable features, to include a fine exposed frame and inglenook fireplaces.
The property comprises a large, rear reception hall with pamment floors and staircase to the first floor, a shower room and study with double aspect and views across the garden towards open countryside.
The kitchen/breakfast room is equipped with a range of wood-fronted base level units with preparation worktop wit 1.5-stainless steel sink unit, ranger cooker with extractor. The kitchen leads into a double aspect formal dining room with inglenook fireplace housing a wood-burning stove on pamment hearth.
The sitting room is a comfortable double aspect reception room with attractive inglenook fireplace with wood-burning stove on pamment hearth, with access down to a utility room, providing useful storage and housing for the boiler. There is a further double aspect reception room to the south, with fireplace (closed) and staircase to the first floor.
In the original part of the house, there are two staircases leading to 3 good-sized double bedrooms, served by a high-quality bathroom suite comprising ball-and-claw freestanding bath, pedestal wash basin and low-level WC and heated towel rail. There is a further staircase in the modern addition that leads to two further bedrooms, which has ease of access to the ground-floor shower room at the 'foot' of the stairs.
Outside
Endings is set back in 0.25-acre grounds, approached from the road onto a large, gravelled driveway, leading to a detached triple-garage and adjoining kennels. The front gardens are largely laid to lawn interspersed with mature shrubs and trees along with an attractive brick-and-flint wall.
Wrapped around the house is a paved walkway and terrace, enjoying a westerly orientation, with steps leading up to a lawned garden enclosed by picket fencing.
Services
Mains water, drainage and electricity • Oil-fired heating • Council Tax Band: Mid Suffolk Band 'F' • Broadband: Ofcom suggest Superfast 80Mb available • Mobile: Ofcom suggest all providers likely.
Location
Hopton is a popular and well-served village, found on the south Norfolk borders and within the beautiful and unspoilt countryside near to the Suffolk fen.
The village still retains a strong and active local community and has the benefit of good amenities and facilities by way of having a dentist, public house, convenience store, schooling and fine church. A further range of day-to-day amenities and facilities can be found just 9 miles to the east within the historic market town of Diss, also having the benefit of a mainline railway station with regular/direct services to London Liverpool Street and Norwich.
