Lot 1 Martley Hall, Entertaining and Leisure facilities, Offices and Guest Courtyard, Annex & 1 bedroom cottage.

Martley Hall is a beautifully situated country houses that combines 18th and 19th Century period characteristics with all the essentials for modern living. In addition, the house has modern offices, boundless guest and/ staff accommodation and incomparable leisure and entertaining facilities.

The moated Hall has been thoroughly renovated but still retains timeless period characteristics while offering completely modernised and spacious living. The house combines traditional timber frame intertwined with strong Arts and Crafts influences. The most recent renovations have been carried out to the highest standard and take full advantage of modern lighting, heating and security systems.

The front drive winds through the garden to the Hall which presents attractive rendered elevations with a timber frame under a plain tile roof with leaded light windows. The limestone floored Hall leads to the majority of the reception rooms which include a large drawing room and dining room, with magnificent fireplaces. There are also a sitting room, library and study. The spacious well- appointed kitchen with 5- oven Aga with a conservatory and breakfast room. At the rear there is a large utility room/back-kitchen, gym and boot room and there is a wll appointed cellar accessed from the entrance hall.

On the first floor, the principal Bedroom Suite has a large bedroom, dressing room and ensuite bathroom. There are a further 4 bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, a smaller double bedroom and family bathroom.

Low cost heating to the entire property is provided by a woodchip boiler with RHI payments partly offsetting the cost of woodchip.

This property has 139 acres of land.

Outside

Gardens and Grounds The terrace runs along the entire eastern and southern elevations and beyond the moat are extensive areas of lawn to the south.

At the rear of the house an Annexe has been cleverly created from a former garage to provide spacious one - bedroom accommodation and underneath is further storage for the house.

Across the moat to the rear of the house is the beautiful walled garden in which has been created stunning leisure and entertaining facilities. Along one side is the magnificent pool complex with 15m pool, infrared sauna, and a jacuzzi, his-and-her changing facilities together with a bar and above a large games room area. Along the northern elevation of the walled garden is a stylish pavilion housing internal dining area and a fully equipped kitchen, with outside dining terrace, all of which overlook the immaculate croquet lawn and pétanque courts. The back drop are spectacular formal gardens featuring magnificent hydrangea bushes.

Set in the grounds a short distance away is a hard tennis court and a half basketball court. Offices and Guest Courtyard To the rear of the house is a beautifully created office and guest complex. The modern offices have been created from a converted traditional timber frame barn and have the space for 18 desks, 2 meeting/ boardrooms, kitchen and WC facilities and benefit from two high- speed fibre lines.

Situated around a courtyard are two well-appointed and individual guest cottages each with two ensuite bedrooms with a kitchen and sitting room. At the end of the Courtyard is the Grooms Cottage, a well laid out one-bedroom newly built cottage which has an area of garden with a pond to the rear.

Adjacent to the offices is the Warehouse Barn (2,640 ft²) which is currently used for storage and has automatically controlled heating but could be used for a wide variety of purposes ancillary to the house or as further offices or entertaining space.

Lot 2 Two Staff Cottages, Stable Yard, Indoor School, Grooms Flat, 68 acres of paddocks, Horse Walker and lunging ring, About 129 acres (52 Ha) 1&2 Martley Hall Cottages An outstanding set of facilities providing both modern stabling and exemplary training facilities for sports and thoroughbred horses.

The equestrian facilities benefit from its own access through electric gates

1 & 2 Martley Hall Cottages A pair of traditional semi- detached cottages situated adjacent to the stable yard. The brick built cottages provide a living room and sitting room, kitchen breakfast room and conservatory with 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor. Each house has an area of garden.

Stables An attractive modern brick stable yard built in a traditional style around a courtyard providing 23 looseboxes with 4 heated foaling boxes with CCTV. In addition, there is stallion box, grooms flat, veterinary room with stocks and weighing machine.

There are a further 7 looseboxes boxes along one side of the Indoor Arena which also provides further covered storage areas.

Arenas An outstanding Olympic sized indoor arena (62m x 24m) constructed to an extremely high standard. The arena features an ‘Equestrian Surfaces’ surface, with a glazed central ridge providing a very light and airy atmosphere. In addition, it features an entertaining suite, offices, changing facilities, kitchen, gallery and judges’ box .

A short distance away there is a further outdoor arena with box hedging, 3 all-weather turnout paddocks, a covered 5- stall horse walker and lunging ring.

Parkland The 68 acres of parkland lies provides a beautiful southerly aspect to the the Hall with and is bordered by mixed woodland (totalling 26 acres) which provides both shelter and privacy. There are a range spread across the park.

Situation

Martley Hall is situated in a wonderful south facing setting overlooking its extensive private parkland. It is located on the northern edge of the village of Easton in Suffolk close to the revered Heritage Coastline.

The village of Easton is within striking distance and has an excellent village community together with a popular pub, primary school and thriving cricket club. The larger settlements of Wickham Market (3.5 miles) and Framlingham (5.5 miles) offer local supermarkets, a range of shops, doctors’ surgery and a post office.

Martley Hall is just 3 miles from the A12 giving good access south to Woodbridge and north to Southwold. Ipswich is 14 miles distant and offers regular trains to London (Liverpool Street) taking about 1hr 5 mins. There is an excellent selection of private and state schools in the area, including Framlingham College, Thomas Mills, Woodbridge School, Farlingaye High School, Finborough School, St Felix School & Orwell Park.

Nearby activities include Snape Maltings, Southwold with the Adnams brewery and harbour, Minsmere Nature Reserve, Dunwich beach, Woodbridge and Aldeburgh golf courses, and Thorpeness.

The area is well served with excellent local pubs and restaurants including White Horse Easton, Watson and Walpole, The Crown Framlingham, Greyhound Inn Pettistree, The Suffolk Aldeburgh, The Crown Ufford, Turks Head Hasketon and The Unruly Pig, Bromswell.