Billingford Hall is a delightful Grade ll listed Georgian family house with spacious, easily managed accommodation. From the entrance, with its elegant staircase, a door leads into the morning room and then through to the drawing room which has a dual aspect and attractive garden views.
The spacious sitting room features a bay window overlooking the garden, while the dining room is useful for entertaining, and located to the kitchen/breakfast room. Beyond these are a spacious boot room and the south facing veranda with glazed roof.
Upstairs, the master bedroom suite has an adjoining dressing room and bathroom, and the property offers six/seven further bedrooms spread over the first and second floors.
Ground source heating also adds to the attraction of the property – this considerably cuts the running costs.
Accommodation in total comprises: four reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, master bedroom with en suite, dressing room and bathroom and four further bedrooms and the family bathroom. There are two/three bedrooms on the second floor along with the games room and a further bathroom.
The beautiful gardens are a feature of the property, with both formal and informal areas, a partly walled garden, a Victorian greenhouse and a stream. The kitchen garden is productive and an area of woodland is planted with spring bulbs. The paddocks are post-and-rail-fenced and include field shelters and water. A listed ice house comes complete with crinkle crankle wall; the gardens come to over ten acres. Beyond the walled garden is a range of five loose boxes, tack room and feed store with access to the paddocks. The two bedroom cottage is completely self-contained while outbuildings include garaging, a studio, stables and outbuildings
Billingford Hall is situated two miles from North Elmham in Norfolk which has a village shop, post office, doctor’s surgery, primary school and two public houses. The nearby village of Bawdswell also has an excellent village store, whilst the market towns of Dereham and Fakenham offer a good selection of supermarkets, schools and other facilities. Norwich is some 15 miles to the south.
The guide price is £1.35m. For further information please contact Jackson-Stops & Staff on 01603 612333 or visit www.jackson-stops.co.uk.
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