- Historic moated and beautifully restored and modernised manor house in 139 acres
- Extensive accommodation and leisure facilities including offices, indoor swimming pool and 4 cottages
- Outstanding equestrian facilities including stabling, Olympic size indoor arena, outdoor arena and post and rail paddocks
Martley Hall includes a beautifully restored and modernised manor house with exemplary equestrian facilities set in extensive parkland. The Hall has been thoroughly renovated but still retains timeless period characteristics while offering completely modernised and spacious living. The house sits within a moat and has a mixture of 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 and across a bridge over the moat. The house presents attractive rendered elevations with a timber frame under a plain tile roof with leaded light windows.
The large limestone floored hall leads to the majority of the reception rooms which include a large drawing room and dining room, both of which have magnificent fireplaces. There is also a sitting room, library and study. The large well-appointed kitchen with 5-oven Aga has both a conservatory and breakfast room. At the rear there is a large utility room/back-kitchen, gym and boot room. The cellar is ideal for the wine connoisseur and accessed from the entrance hall.
On the first floor, the principal bedroom suite is at the eastern end of the house with a large bedroom, dressing room and en-suite bathroom. There are a further 4 bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a smaller double bedroom and family bathroom.
Gardens and Grounds
Outside the terrace runs along the entire eastern and southern elevations and is accessed from various ground floor rooms. Beyond the well maintained 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 very spacious one-bedroom accommodation and underneath is further storage for the house.
Entertainment and Leisure
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 backdrop is the 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 an Italian style courtyard are four well-appointed individual guest bedroom suites each with en-suite bathrooms as well as a guest kitchenette & sitting room. At the end of the courtyard is ‘Grooms Cottage’, a well laid out one-bedroom open plan cottage with its own private garden and 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)
An outstanding set of facilities providing both modern stabling and exemplary training facilities for sports and thoroughbred horses. The equestrian facilities benefit from their own access through electric gates
1 & 2 Martley Hall Cottages: A pair of traditional semi- detached cottages situated adjacent to the stable yard. The houses are constructed of brick under a plain tile with leaded light double glazed uPVC windows. The accommodation comprises a living room and sitting room, kitchen breakfast room and conservatory on the ground floor and 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor. Each house has an area of garden.
Arenas: An outstanding Olympic sized indoor arena (62m x 24m) constructed to an extremely high standard. The arena features an ‘Equestrian Surfaces’ surface, is fully boarded with part mirrored walls and a glazed central ridge providing a very light and airy atmosphere. In addition, it features an entertaining suite, with offices, changing facilities, commercial kitchen, viewing gallery and cafe area, judges’ box all with an in-built sound system. A short distance away there is a further outdoor arena with box hedging, 2 all-weather turnout paddocks, stallion pens, a covered 5-stall horse walker and lunging ring.
Stables: An attractive modern brick stable yard built in a traditional style around a courtyard providing 24 looseboxes with 4 heated foaling boxes with CCTV. In addition, there is stallion box, grooms flat with windows over the foaling boxes, veterinary room with stocks and weighing machine.
There are a further 7 American style looseboxes along one side of the indoor arena which also provides further covered storage areas.
Paddocks: The stables and training facilities are served by 68 acres of post and rail paddocks spread across the park. These range in size from less than an acre to over 8 acres and therefore cater for all types of horses, ages and temperaments.
Beyond the paddocks is a belt of mixed woodland (totalling 26 acres) which provide both shelter and privacy as well as a pleasing backdrop
Location
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. Newmarket is 47 miles to the west. Felixstowe and other ports are approximately 21 miles south.
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.