A regal-looking home in an elevated position with approximately 500 metres of river frontage, Burefield looks like it’s come straight out of a period novel – and it’s now on the market for only the third time since it was built in 1911.
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The mock timber-framed property with brick and rendered elevations under a thatch roof lies to the east of the village of Horning, near Wroxham, on the north bank of the River Bure, and is on the market with Strutt and Parker at a guide price of £2.85 million.
It occupies just under 14 acres of grounds and boasts over 5,000 sq ft of accommodation over four storeys inside.
The spacious ground-floor entrance room welcomes you into the main living space – a large open-plan kitchen with areas for dining and seating and double doors to the outside. Burefield’s array of period features begin in this room, which include a woodburning stove, dumb waiter and Edwardian servants' bell box.
A handy utility room with pantry lies adjacent to the kitchen, and there is also a games room, cloakroom and internal garage room on the ground floor.
Three further reception rooms are located on the first floor and enjoy lovely views over the gardens and waterways beyond. The impressive drawing room is 29 ft long and features an ornate ceiling with plasterwork and a large bay window with seating.
Double doors in this room open into the large, wood-panelled study, which also has a curved bay window and access to a balcony with steps leading down to the garden terrace.
The dining room is adjacent to the dumb waiter, and its panelled walls and adjoining servants’ kitchen with pantry add to Burefield’s stately feel.
The first of five bedrooms is also located on this floor as well as a family bathroom, with the remaining bedrooms on the second floor. All of the bedrooms are doubles, and the principal bedroom has an en suite bathroom. There is also a separate shower room and WC on the second floor.
Outside, an external door on the property’s east elevation leads into a large cellar.
Burefield’s extensive and landscaped grounds are home to a varied selection of mature specimen trees, including varieties of oak, Atlantic and blue cedar, Cypress pine and wellingtonia. The sweeping lawns and lush green surroundings make this garden a haven for wildlife, and Strutt & Parker says that kingfishers and marsh harriers are a typical sight.
A York stone driveway with parking for multiple cars brings you to the front of the property, and there is a large garage barn and smaller tractor shed with apple store to the side.
The stone paving wraps around both sides of the property, leading you to the south-facing rear terrace before continuing past a large lawn garden and down to the water’s edge. Here, there is a boat house with shed and quay heading, and an island bordered by two inlets of the River Bure that is accessed by a footbridge.
The island also has a boat house and quay heading and takes you down to a summer house on the river’s edge.
Further gardens to the east of the property lead to a part-sunken walled tennis court with a stone pillared galleried staircase, and beyond this is a right-angled machinery barn where pumps that once serviced an irrigation and domestic system are housed.
An ornate crinkle crankle brick wall with a pitched tiled roof separates the gardens to the east and guides you through a unique moon gate and to an open plan brick barn. There are walled gardens to the rear of the barn and parterre kitchen gardens, orchards and greenhouses to the front.
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Burefield is situated next to St Benedict’s Church just east of the village of Horning in the heart of the Broads. Wroxham is around four miles away and provides rail links to Norwich and beyond.
For more information, please contact Strutt and Parker.
PROPERTY FACTS
Burefield, Church Road
Guide price: £2.85 million
Strutt and Parker, 01603 361891
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