Woodbridge Suffolk - House but no garden as such!!! - Would You??

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DP and I have been mulling over moving to Suffolk - don't ask why but there you go - have been having a nosey on the net and have found the perfcet house - thing is it has no garden to speak of - a 'courtyard with an appletree' is how the estate agent describes it - the house is lovely - wonderfully done out internally and externally and has a one bedroom flat as well as 5 bedrooms for the bargain price of £250k - I think I could live without a garden - we hardly use ours now and if we do just sit around the tabel and let DD play with her toys - do you think you could live without a big garden - ours is a decent size now and we only seem to go out in it when we are gardening!!

Oh and the nice house is in Framligham?woodbridge - do any of you mumsnetters live near there - what is is like, is there lots of open space that could make up fior having a postage stamp garden???

I know Framlingham. It is a gorgeous small town. There is a huge castle with grounds that you can run about in. There is a playing field called the Pageant Field which has swings, climbing frame etc.

Where exactly is it in Framlingham, does it say?

Framlingham is not Woodbridge, though. It is just its postal address. It is about a half hour drive away from Woodbridge, and almost as close to Ipswich.

Ooooh station road - it is a cream coloured town house!! - Am so excited that someone knows where it is!!

In that case it is the opposite end of town from the Pageant Field, so it would be a 10-15 minute uphill walk. It is closer to the castle and the mere. I think there is another park nearby.

It would also be very close to the supermarket - you could virtually walk.

Station Road is a very busy road, however, which might be a problem with dd - a lot of the houses open directly onto a narrow pavement and then the front road.

Can you post a weblink to the details?

When I say you could virtually walk to the supermarket, I mean it would take 2 minutes to walk there, therefore you could virtually walk your trolley back to your front door!

I think Suffolk is lovely but I couldn't live without a garden, even though, like you, I don't use it loads...BUT...your new baby could turn into a football mad little girl/lad in a few years and it would be nice to turn both your children & their friends loose into the garden while you and your friends hang out with a bottle of wine. Also good for Easter Egg Hunts, summer birthday parties, swings, playhouses, paddling pools... I love my garden and would only move somewhere with a bigger garden, but that's my vrey personal opinion.

God it is right on the edge of the road - DP would not go for that if the road is busy - what supermarket it is - he would also draw the line at living in walking distance of anywhere but a waitrose or sainsbury's!! - actually not sure I would want to live so close to a supermarket - must be busy and noisy - No??

Can't do the weblink - sorry I am a bit of a wally with things like that but if you go into Prime Location and put in 200k to 300k and 4 bedrooms in woodbridge it should come up!!

Feel sad now - realise why it seemed so bloody reasonable!!

Oh well, dp would have to learn to slum it - it's a solar, which is a co-op, I think. Round by the supermarket is pretty quiet (it's not what you would call big) but station road (if I've got the right one) is a very busy road - it takes any through traffic that there is. Property in Framlingham is pretty expensive, so a bargain like that is probably the location and lack of garden.

Lovely part of the world, though. I'm jealous (except that I'm with your dp on supermarkets - and pizza delivery too)