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REYDON HALL FACTS: Location: Reydon, near Southwold Price: £2,250,000 Joint Agents: Jackson-Stops & Staff , Clarke & Simpson
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Historic hall with Southwold in its sights
n many ways Reydon Hall has got it all – a magnificent history, splendid accommodation and what some would describe as the most perfect British seaside resort, the beautiful town of
Southwold, just two miles away. The Grade II* listed 17th century hall also has ten acres of wonderful mature and picturesque gardens and seven acres of meadow beyond. Reydon Hall was built primarily by Thomas
Ewan in 1682 but was substantially altered and enlarged in the mid and late 19th century. It’s a handsome red brick building with sash windows; fine Flemish gables and impressive Tudor style ornate chimneys. The Hall is approached up a long drive, which sweeps to an extensive parking and turning courtyard. Inside the accommodation, which is
arranged on three floors, extends in total to some 9,700 sq ft and includes three fine, well proportioned principal reception
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rooms including a central and elegant drawing room, an equally impressive heavily timbered sitting room with and an atmospheric dining room, which features an impressive grand stone fireplace with carved marble insets. All three rooms have central French doors, which open out on to a south terrace and the gardens beyond. On the first floor are four bedrooms,
a bathroom and two washrooms, all of which enjoy fine views, while the East Wing provides three further bedrooms and bathroom. The second floor can be accessed by
twin staircases, the first of which leads to a large central multi-purpose attic room, with the potential for four further bedrooms accessible from it. In addition the second floor of the East
Wing, which has independently access is ideal for a three room staff flat, complete with bathroom and kitchenette area. Outside the well-structured gardens and grounds include a series of well kept
formal lawns interspersed with ornate ponds and colourful shrub, rose and flower beds and borders. There are numerous fine, mature specimen trees, including oak, horse chestnut and beech, together with further varieties of deciduous trees such as poplar, willow and ash, interspersed with evergreen varieties, providing year round colour. A series of rhododendron bushes are particularly impressive and there is also a pair of summerhouses. To the east of the house is an area
of former kitchen garden, enclosed by red brick walling and which contains a traditional timber barn providing utility storage, together with a further range of garden stores and south facing traditional greenhouses. There is a further walled ornamental
garden and a range of brick and pantiled stables and further stores, together with the former coach house, which currently provides garaging and has the potential for conversion to provide further annexe accommodation if required.
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