An enthralling thatched cottage that really appeared on Cadbury’s chocolate containers greater than 130 years in the past is up on the market for £700,950.
Weavers is a sixteenth century, Grade II, timber-framed residence within the Suffolk village of Stradishall, full of uncovered wood beams, authentic fireplaces and stable oak flooring.
The historic cottage suits completely with the time period ‘chocolate field cottage’, which is used to confer with fairly nation, and so its not shock it was considered one of 12 chosen to be pictured the British chocolate big.
The present proprietor purchased the property 20 years in the past and extra lately rented it out by way of an AirBnb however now the four-bedroom house is being offered with Jackson-Stops.
Founding father of Cadbury’s cocoa and chocolate firm, Richard Cadbury first got here up with the concept of placing footage on the entrance of chocolate containers in 1868 to make them extra visually showing.
An actual-life chocolate field cottage, used for a few of the authentic Cadbury’s chocolate containers, has gone available on the market for £799,950
Sadly there are only a few catalogues of what containers had been on provide within the Eighties and the Cadbury’s archive doesn’t include an image of this property on a chocolate field. Pictured: A 1978 rectangular Milk Tray field
Weavers is a sixteenth century timber-framed residence within the Suffolk village of Stradishall
Weavers has 2,289 sq ft of lodging full of uncovered wood beams, authentic fireplaces and stable oak flooring
They included a variety of images and a few even had photographs of Cadbury’s work.
Sadly there are only a few catalogues of what containers had been on provide within the Eighties and the Cadbury’s archive doesn’t include an image of this property on a chocolate field.
The idea of utilizing bucolic scenes on the containers was standard till the Sixties.
Weavers has 2,289 sq ft of lodging with a kitchen and breakfast room, sitting room, eating room, examine and household room on the bottom flooring and 4 bedrooms and a household lavatory on the primary flooring.
There may be additionally a double storage hooked up to the home and an enclosed rear backyard with a paved terrace, garden, flower beds, pond with koi carp and a waterfall and two backyard sheds.
Lottie Watts from Jackson-Stops mentioned: ‘Weavers has all of the character and allure of a Grade II Listed property with numerous character options and in a wanted location.
‘It additionally has an attention-grabbing historical past and is kind of distinctive because it was considered one of solely twelve official chocolate field cottages that Cadbury’s featured on their most interesting chocolate containers.
All through the home there are uncovered wood beams, together with wood flooring boards. Pictured: The eating space
The bedrooms within the nation cottage are mild and ethereal, with carpeted flooring
The property has an enclosed rear backyard with a paved terrace, garden, flower beds, pond with koi carp and a waterfall and two backyard sheds
The property has a principal bed room, in addition to three additional bedrooms and a household lavatory
The property is a Grade II Listed property with numerous character options and in a wanted location
The should not a variety of facilities within the village, however there’s good companies within the massive village of Wickenbrook, property managers mentioned
‘It was additionally talked about within the Domesday Ebook. Stradishall is quintessentially English village with some fairly properties like this one.
‘There is not quite a bit by way of facilities however there’s good companies close by within the bigger village of Wickenbrook.’
In 2019, one other Cadbury’s chocolate field home constructed within the sixteenth century went available on the market for £495,000.
The three-bedroom cottage named Thatchways is within the village of Harvington, Worcestershire, and appeared on a 1978 Milk Tray field.
Jamie Youngman, senior negotiator at Knight Frank Stratford, mentioned on the time: ‘The property has been prolonged over time and now types a wonderful three bed room residence which blends the property’s wealth of authentic character with format that’s preferrred for modern-day residing.
The present proprietor purchased the property 20 years in the past and extra lately rented it out by way of an AirBnb
Weavers has 2,289 sq ft of lodging with a kitchen and breakfast room, sitting room, eating room, examine and household room on the bottom flooring and 4 bedrooms
There may be big household lavatory inside the chocolate field cottage
The property is marketed as a Grade II Listed property with numerous character options and in a wanted location
‘The Cadbury connection, with it showing on the chocolate field, definitely provides a romantic component to the property, in addition to the actual fact it was one of many Lilliput Lane cottages.
‘However this might not simply be a romantic purchase, because it has been designed and renovated in a method which makes it a sensible household residence, one thing which isn’t at all times the case with thatched cottages.
‘It truly is a particular residence and I do know the house owners have liked their time right here.’
The cottage can be believed to be the inspiration for the Strawberry Fields mannequin maker Lilliput Lane.
The corporate, based by the late David Tate, made a variety of miniature handmade fashions of actual English and Welsh cottages.