Number of bedrooms: 6
Number of bathrooms: 3
Number of receptions: 4
Features
*6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms *3 reception rooms *3 Bedroom Barn Conversion *Outbuildings, Gardens *Stables, About 23 acres
Situation
Hestley Hall is centrally positioned in its grounds of part-moated gardens, paddocks and meadows approached by a long tree lined private drive. iHestley Green is a quiet rural hamlet located equidistant between the attractive sought after villages of Debenham and Eye and the market towns of Diss and Stowmarket. The commuter can take advantage of the mainline station in the latter where the journey to London's Liverpool Street Station takes about 75 minutes. A wide range of shopping, educational and leisure amenities are available in all the above and Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, which is 21 miles away which offers a quicker train service to London's Liverpool Street Station, the journey taking about 65 minutes
Description
Grade II Listed of special architectural or historical interest, Hestley Hall is a former manor farmhouse dating back to the early 16th century. There are records originally back to Doomsday where there was believed to be a settlement positioned around a full moat. There are many attractive period features inside the house including high wall timbered ceilings, large open fireplaces and some stencilled designs dating from 1525 in one of the rooms. Principally constructed on a timber frame there are early 19th century additions to the house with the external elevation being plastered under pitched pegtiled roofs. The house has undergone a sympathetic renovation programme including re-wiring, a new fitted kitchen and the installation of central heating system. The grounds are a mix of formal gardens, wooded areas and moats all surrounded by open hedged countryside.
A separate driveway leads to a wonderfully converted barn and there is planning consent to convert a further barn to a residential dwelling.
