Jocelin House, in Northgate Avenue, Bury St Edmunds, on the market with David Burr for £1,495,000
A Victorian family home with nine bedrooms and five bathrooms in a sought-after Bury St Edmunds location is on the market for nearly £1.5 million.
Jocelin House, in Northgate Avenue, is listed with David Burr at a guide price of £1,495,000 and benefits from off-road parking at the front and generous gardens.
The agents have described it as a stunning Victorian family home of grand proportions which is believed to have formerly been a dormitory for residential pupils of Culford School, which was the Methodist Secondary School at the time.
The house is spread across around 5,600 square feet and now comprises nine bedrooms, five bathrooms, four reception rooms and a bespoke kitchen/breakfast room which leads on to the rear gardens.
It has been significantly renovated, including the creation of an internal, two-bedroom annexe ideal for multi-generational living, with the house flexible enough for use as one substantial dwelling subject to individual preferences.
The ground floor opens into an entrance hall which leads on to a drawing room, sitting room, dining room cloakroom and kitchen/breakfast/living room.
The latter has Quartz worksurfaces and integrated applicances and a ceramic sink with a boiling water tap.
It is finished with parquet effect flooring and French-style doors opening on to the terrace.
The first floor has three of the bedrooms, all of which are double, including the principal bedroom which is en suite.
The family bathroom is on this floor, which has a panel bath with a shower attachment.
On the second floor are bedrooms four to seven, three of which have skylights – all are doubles.
This floor has a shower room.
The annexe is spread over two floors. The ground floor has a sitting room, kitchen, cloakroom and cellar while the first floor has a main bedroom with an en suite bathroom and second bedroom with apsect windows.
Viewings are on an appointment basis and can be arranged with David Burr. It has offices in Long Melford, Leavenheath, Clare, Castle Hedingham, Woolpit, Newmarket, Bury and London.
