Burnham Overy Staithe

Extending to almost 4,600 sq. ft., Seabreeze is a beautiful five-bedroom home designed and built by one of the most highly respected and established local family builders in North Norfolk.

It takes years of experience to create a property that, from the outside, appears beautiful yet subtle. As you drive through the gates of Seabreeze, you would be forgiven for thinking that behind its elegant yet meticulously finished flinted exterior lies a modest home. Step into the wide and welcoming central hallway, flooded with natural light from its double height and triple width glass windows. These draw your eyes all the way through the house, across the garden to the obelisk at Holkham in the far distance; this entrance sets the tone for the true proportions of this incredible house.

The ground floor is both practical and fun. There are two double bedroom suites for older family guests or teens arriving home late. An essential utility room and a large boot room with its own door are perfect for corralling muddy or sandy two and four-legged little ones, sluicing them down before releasing them back into the wilds of the garden. Then, the fun: a full-sized games room, currently equipped with a pool table, with space for table tennis or as a TV room or home gym, however it suits you.

Moving to the back of the house, we discover one of the most incredible spaces imagined: the fully vaulted, open-plan kitchen, dining, and living room. Measuring approximately 1,200 sq. ft. and over 60ft in length, this room has both the proportions and style to render most people speechless.

At one end lies the immaculate kitchen with elegant units and a substantial island. If that weren’t enough, it boasts a full-size walk-in pantry and a fully fitted, discrete drinks bar. Additionally, there’s a fully fitted American Diner-style banquet, perfect for relaxed kitchen suppers or catching up with friends over a cafetiere of coffee.

In the centre of this room, the dining space is well-positioned with intimate lighting above. At the end, family or friends retire to relax, with ample space for an array of soft, comforting sofas. This is the perfect place to curl up in front of the log burner after a winter’s walk to Scolt Head or simply to watch a movie or enjoy a good book.

Its large porthole window nods to its coastal proximity, while three triple sets of glass doors open, making this room perfect for bringing the outdoors in during summer months. With all three doors open, allowing the cooling sea air to flow through the house, this room is ideal for enjoying summer evenings to the full.

Upstairs, two very opulent double bedroom suites await. Both feature walk-in dressing rooms and en-suites, but the principal bedroom stands out with its delightful east-facing roof terrace - where better to sit out and enjoy the morning summer sun than here?

To the front of the house, in addition to ample gravelled off-street parking, stands a separate two-bay garage. It benefits further from a one-bedroom guest suite above it. With the entire plot extending to approximately half an acre, the garden to the rear is equally impressive in size as the house, providing an idyllic space for little ones to run off steam in complete privacy and safety.

Burnham Overy Staithe is regularly voted one of the top five prettiest and most desirable coastal villages to live in throughout the entire United Kingdom. Families retain their village homes for generation after generation, whether through close affection for sailing or simply the charm of this relatively timeless North Norfolk stalwart. Therefore, to find a house like Seabreeze, offering such substantial and beautifully crafted living space while managing to appear quite modest and understated, is almost unique.

BURNHAM OVERY STAITHE
A small village on the North Norfolk Coast, Burnham Overy Staithe has a natural tidal harbour. It has a good gastro pub - The Hero and there are good walks across the marshes and long sandy beaches. It’s close to Burnham Market with all of its amenities.

Both Overy Town and Overy Staithe lie on the River Burn, and until the end of the Middle Ages trading ships were able to reach the village of Burnham Overy Town. Whenever a ship arrived a gong would be sounded at the top of Gong Lane in Burnham Overy Staithe, to alert the farm workers to unload the incoming goods.

Perhaps Burnham Overy’s most famous resident was Richard Woodget. He first went to sea in coasters plying the waters off the east coast of England. In 1885 he was appointed captain of the Cutty Sark. He made several record breaking journeys between the UK and Australia.

Burnham Thorpe, the birthplace of Nelson, is a mile to the southeast. King’s Lynn is 20 miles away with mainline access to Cambridge and London and Norwich is 30 miles away with its international gateway via Schiphol.

SERVICES CONNECTED
Mains water, electricity and drainage. Heating via air source heat pump.

COUNCIL TAX
Band D.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY RATING
To be confirmed.

To retrieve the Energy Performance Certificate for this property please visit and enter in the reference number above. Alternatively, the full certificate can be obtained through Sowerbys.

TENURE
Freehold.

LOCATION
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