The original building is thought to have been the summer house overlooking the formal gardens of the stately home.
Today the property’s grounds still overlook an ancient yew oval and topiary colonnade, which are both Grade II listed.
The ground floor accommodation in Garden House flows from a central reception hall.
The light-filled drawing room (Image: Inscope Imaging) The hall leads to a triple-aspect drawing room, which has an ornate fireplace surround and a south-facing door opening to the gardens.
The dining room, with parquet flooring, is also set off the hall. This room links to the orangery and the kitchen.
The spacious orangery features a wood burner (Image: Inscope Imaging) Ideal for summer dining, the vast 42ft orangery also has a large wood burner for the cooler months.
Beyond the kitchen, there is a more recently added utility room and rear hallway.
The snug links the hallway and east wing (Image: Inscope Imaging) A snug with a wood burner is set between the hall and the east wing of the property, where there are three multi-purpose rooms, which could be used as a study, a library or further bedrooms, as well as a shower room. There is independent access to this wing of the house.
On the first floor, the south-facing master bedroom has built-in wardrobes and a glazed door onto a balcony with views across the topiary gardens.
The master and another double bedroom share access to the main bathroom.
Outside, Garden House is approached via a pair of large wooden gates, which open to a shingled drive and parking area, where there’s a lean-to garage and potting shed range.
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The driveway continues to a further parking area beyond the house. There is an extensive range of domestic and garden stores in the grounds, including secure workshops, multi-purpose stores, a freezer store and dog kennel and run.
The property is set in about 2.3 acres (Image: Inscope Imaging) Garden House is set in about 2.3 acres of mainly walled gardens, which include areas of lawn, ornamental canals, herbaceous, rose and shrub beds and borders, manicured yew hedging and a plantation of Holme oak trees.
The gardens feature in books including Painted Gardens by Penelope Hobhouse and Country Life’s Lost Gardens of England.
The listed yew oval in the grounds (Image: Inscope Imaging)
The topiary yew colonnade is also listed (Image: Inscope Imaging) There is also a kitchen garden, large chicken run and a large and impressive subterranean icehouse in the grounds.
Garden House is situated a few minutes’ drive from the centre of the village of Campsea Ashe, which is home to a church, a pub and a restored railway station with cafe. Regular services on the East Suffolk branch line run to Ipswich, which runs mainline services to London.
Wickham Market, which is three miles away, offers shops, a primary school and health centre.
Woodbridge, which is eight miles to the south, can be reached via the A12.
To the east, there’s the Suffolk Heritage Coast, Tunstall and Rendlesham Forests and the picturesque coastal village of Orford.
For more information, contact Jackson-Stops.
PROPERTY FACTS
Garden House, Campsea Ashe
Guide price: £1.15 million
Jackson-Stops, 01473 218218
jackson-stops.co.uk