Property Details: • Type: Character Property • Tenure: N/A • Floor Area: N/A
Key Features: • Grade II listed sixteenth-century house, timber-framed and thatched • Three bedrooms, en-suite shower room and family bathroom • Sitting room with an electric living flame stove and double French doors onto the terrace • Dining room with exposed timber framing and a brick central stack • Farmhouse kitchen and breakfast room with an oil-fired Aga • Exposed beams, jowled posts and wall studding throughout • Seventeenth-century rear wing, giving a T-shaped plan • Established formal gardens overlooking neighbouring parkland (not included) • Set beside the Higham Place estate in the Stour valley • Established holiday let, rated 4.92 out of 5 on Airbnb
Location: • Nearest Station: Manningtree Station • Distance to Station: 4.1009112806186065 miles
Agent Information: • Address: St. Johns Innovation Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS
Full Description: <p>This Grade II listed house dates from the later sixteenth century, with rendered elevations beneath a thatched roof and an off-centre ridge stack. A seventeenth-century single-storey cross wing to the rear, under a plain tiled roof, gives the house its T-shaped plan.</p><p>The front door opens into an entrance hall with a cloakroom/WC. The dining room and sitting room lie either side of the central stack, and the sitting room has an electric living flame stove and double French doors onto a paved terrace. The farmhouse kitchen and breakfast room has an oil-fired Aga. Exposed timbers run throughout, with jowled posts, deep chamfered beams and traces of early shutter grooves and diamond mullion mortices.</p><p>A winding staircase behind the stack rises to three bedrooms beneath a clasped purlin roof. The principal bedroom has fitted wardrobes, and there is an en-suite shower room and a family bathroom.</p><p>Outside, established formal gardens with lawns, clipped hedges and a paved terrace surround the house and look out over neighbouring parkland, which is privately owned and not included in the sale. There is driveway parking for three cars.</p><p>The thatch on the front elevation will need renewing, and we would be happy to discuss this in more detail.</p><p>Higham is a small village in the Stour valley, in the heart of Constable Country, within easy reach of Colchester and Ipswich, with mainline stations at Manningtree and Colchester. The house would suit a main home or a country retreat equally well.</p><p>It has also been let successfully as a holiday cottage through a specialist agency and is very well reviewed, currently rated 4.92 out of 5 on Airbnb with Guest Favourite status. The property is assessed for business rates as a self-catering unit rather than council tax, with a rateable value of £3,500, so a buyer continuing to let it may qualify for small business rate relief. Letting figures are available to seriously interested parties on request. A buyer intending to occupy the house as a home would need to apply for it to be assessed for council tax.</p>
