Detached house for sale in Thursford Road, Great Snoring, Fakenham NR21

Thursford Castle is an exceptional 4/5 bedroom contemporary home hidden away in beautiful North Norfolk Countryside with no near neighbours. There is also exceptional seperate guest accommodation which combined with the house offers over 4590sq ft of space.
The property uses the finest materials and the most recent technology.

Main House
- Entrance through the ruins of a period chapel
- Vaulted reception hall with glazed walkways
- Outstanding open plan kitchen dining and family room with double sided wood burner and bespoke kitchen by Naked Kitchens
- Sitting room with double sided wood burner
- Main bedroom suite with dressing room and en suite bathroom
- 3 further large bedrooms en suite
- Wide hallway with library/reading area
- Study/bedroom five
- Store room with provision to be converted fifth shower room
- Utility room and boot room area
- Plant room
- Inner hall

- WC

- Cloakroom
- Pantry
- Bathrooms by Porcelanosa
- Oak internal doors
- Triple glazed windows and external doors
- Vented warm air system via the woodburner
- 4G fast broadband via cat 6 wiring
- Inbuilt Sonos

The Garden Room and Garden Studio
Suite in the Walled Garden
- Open plan living area with kitchen/dining/sitting room
- South facing decked terrace
- Wood burning stove
- Bedroom
- En suite shower room
- Dressing room
- South facing decking
- Gas fired central heating

The Meadow Cabin
- Versatile Scandi Cabin
- Open plan kitchen/living/bedroom with wood burning stove
- Shower Room
- Private location
- Fully plumbed and with underfloor heating<br /><br />The entire site is fully enclosed and securely
fenced, with two separate entrances
secured by five bar gates, one of which is
electric. Gravelled driveways lead to two
symmetrically positioned open cart lodges,
each with three open bays and a lock up
garage and generous parking areas. Within
the quadrangle of the main house is a
very sheltered courtyard garden, it has a
Mediterranean feel with pea shingle area and
paved pathways, interspersed with herbaceous
borders filled with a variety of ornamental
grasses and structural plants. This is the
perfect place for outside dining, south facing
and protected from the wind. The main
event is the stunning walled garden, where
gravelled footpaths are bordered by seasonal
herbaceous planting and interspersed by
mown pathways and wildflowers.
A bespoke cedar framed greenhouse sits
against the east facing wall.
The walls and original corner turrets have
been beautifully restored, one turret houses a
gardener’s WC and utility room for the use of
the garden studio.
Outside of the walled garden is a natural
landscape with fine mature trees, lawns and
intermittent planting. The meadow is fully
fenced with beautiful sallow and oak trees
and mown pathways leading to the versatile
Scandi cabin. There is also has a further cabin,
tucked away behind the walled garden on
the west boundary which benefits from far
reaching views and sunsets. The cabin is fully
self-contained with a kitchen, shower room,
living area and three small bedrooms.
There is also a charming adjacent two acre fenced paddock which is rented from a neighbouring farmer and this arrangement could be tranferred to the purchaser.<br /><br />The property occupies a quiet hidden rural
location between the small villages of
Thursford and Great Snoring and the larger
village of Little Walsingham which offers
good quality amenities including the awardwinning
Walsingham Farm Shop, Vined Me
wine bar, the Black Lion pub, cafés, antique
shops, village store and a primary school.
The popular Georgian market town of Holt has
a wide range of independent shops along with
Gresham’s School for girls and boys. Beeston
Hall Prep School is also easily accessible in
West Runton.
About 10 miles to the north-west is Burnham
Market which is a vibrant village offering a
number of popular shops and restaurants.
Thursford Castle is also about 7 miles from
Holkham Hall and the wonderful Holkham
Beach.
Fakenham (4 miles) has a wider range of
amenities and a weekly market with a monthly
farmer’s market and a superb National Hunt
Racecourse.
Wells (6 miles) is a popular coastal town with
a wonderful sandy beach and a wide range
of amenities. The North Norfolk Coast is
designated an Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty and has one of the best bird reserves
in Europe and a wide variety of other leisure
pursuits available such as sailing, seal
watching, golf and walking.