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A substantial and quietly imposing six-bedroom Victorian Norfolk country house standing in around three acres of formal gardens, paddock and grounds on a private country lane near the village of Saxlingham, three miles south-east of Holt. Built in around 1860 in traditional Norfolk flint with red-brick quoins and a clay-pantile roof, the house extends to approximately 380 square metres over two principal storeys plus attics, and combines its considerable original character with a comprehensive recent renovation throughout. A gravel sweep leads to a panelled timber front porch with stained-glass top lights, opening onto a generous oak-panelled reception hall with parquet flooring, an open stone fireplace and the original Arts and Crafts oak staircase. A formal drawing room sits to the right with a large bay window onto the gardens and an antique marble fireplace; a formal dining room opposite is panelled to dado height in painted timber. The library, lined floor-to-ceiling in oak with a working fireplace, leads through to a substantial garden room with full-height glazing onto the formal gardens. The kitchen-breakfast room has been refitted in a Plain English specification with a four-oven AGA. The first floor accommodates four principal bedrooms — three with ensuite bathrooms, including a master suite with a dressing room — together with a family bathroom. Two further bedrooms and a shower room occupy the second floor. Outside, the grounds extend to approximately three acres in total, with formal walled gardens, deep mixed herbaceous borders, a kitchen garden with greenhouse, mature specimen trees (including a magnificent cedar), an ornamental pond, and a small fenced paddock with a separate flint-and-pantile stable building. Council tax band H, EPC E. Freehold.

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