See inside Grade II listed former rectory in Great Waldingfield near Sudbury
A former rectory with 11 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms in a Suffolk village is now available on the market.
Rectory Manor in Great Waldingfield, near Sudbury, is considered to be one of the finest properties in the county with a mostly Georgian façade despite having a timber framed medieval building underneath.
The Grade II listed building is now on sale with David Burr with a guide price of £2,750,000.
Run as a successful B&B for some years, the detached former rectory provides a four-bedroom coach house and a separate annexe ideal for multi-generational living as well.
It sits adjacent to the Church of St Lawrence and has been run as a successful, award-winning B&B by the current owners for part of the year while also enjoying it as their family home.
The accommodation spans four storeys including both a cellar and staff apartment on the top floor and an impressive reception hall and three further reception rooms on the ground floor.
In 1866, the library was remodelled with reredos (a large decoration/screen) and panelling taken from Sir Christopher Wren's church - St Michael's of Cornhill in London.
On the first floor of the property, a principal suite benefits from an en-suite, as do three other bedrooms.
In the reception hall, there is an open fireplace and extremely rare original Victorian brass heating grates.
The oldest part of the house is the drawing room with views over the property's grounds as well as egg and dart cornicing, deep skirting and a central open fireplace with a carved marble surround and granite hearth.
Moving into the dining room, there is a fourteen-seater dining table and in the library, there are painted panels of the Ten Commandments by Robert Streater, 'Sergeant Painter' to King Charles II.
Outside, the property’s grounds contain areas of lawn with various trees as well as a heated swimming pool and tennis court.
Rectory Manor has the additional benefit of sitting within a conservation area which has been carefully established to preserve the property's surroundings.
