1 bedroom house share for rent in Withindale Lane, Long Melford, CO10

Property Reference: 2684203.
The “Commodore’s Cabin” first floor double room, with en suite bathroom (40 metres square) all bills included – is available 21-May-26. The room overlooks, to the north,  the river Stour as it flows south west perpendicularl to the long axis of the house. The impulse Engine Room first floor double room, with en suite bathroom  (16 metres square) – is available 14-May-26. The port Nacelle first floor double room, with en suite bathroom (22 metres square) –  is available 12-May-26. The Library is available 01-Jun-26.The rooms are in a shared house built 1805 of 440 square metres internal floor area set in

peaceful and secluded grounds within the dale (with 140 metres of river frontage) beside the beautiful village of Long Melford and are available to singles or couples (with a £135 per month surcharge). The property benefits from off street parking, gas central heating, a fruitful apple and pear orchard and raspberry plants at the back of the house.
The Commodore’s Cabin is £920 per month. The Impulse Engine Room is £770. The Port Nacelle £810 per month. All bills are included.
Breaking the bills down (for your information) and amortising between a putative six inhabitants the council tax comes to £70 per month, the water bill £8 per month, the power bill circa £129 per month, £6 for the (optical fibre) internet and £42 for gardening, being £255 per lodger for all the bills. This breakdown is simply for comparison with landlords who charge bills separately. The rent does include all the bills. 
Improvements in 2025-6
The windows in both nacelles are being improved to make them enhance the architecture of the house. This is a circa £15,000 job of which an £11,000 deposit has been paid. Scaffolding is  up. New Bath stone sills have been set in place. The aim of the work is to match, at the back of the house, the aspect ratio (though not surface area) of the grander windows at the front of the house while increasing the rooms’ natural light and improving insulation (by making them double glazed argon gas filled). The windows it is hoped will be installed by 21-Mar-26. In addition two new radiators (with one old removed) with 80% more surface area than their predecessors were installed in both the Port and Starboard Nacelles in December 2025. In October 2025 the carpet was removed from the port Nacelle, and the floorboards thereby exposed were restored and lacquered.  I will submit additional photographs of the Port Nacelle and Library, once I receive them circa 15-Mar-26 and additional ones once the new windows are in place.
The property is peradventure shared with a forty something information technology specialist at a local brewery business who performs physical training in the (waterless) swimming pool (gym), a sixty something gentleman online games (Bull Run also known as Manassas Junction 1861) publisher, and hopefully, Time Machine inventing-landlord (M.A. Cantab), a fifty something Kiwi (Orthodox) Reverend Doctor software-engineer-priest-lawyer (who is actually resident in the Old Garage) but is often to be found, in the atrium, thrashing the landlord at a game of Korea, the twenty something quality control engineeress and her hard working delivery driver boyfriend (currently away), and from time to time, particular friends of the aforementioned five (the landlord being, naturally, friendless!) without whom the collective would be incomplete. For your information, board gamers (depending on the game, so not go, scrabble, monopoly, cludo or chess!!) would not, by a significant minority of the inhabitants, be frowned on and nor would piano players and classical musicians, libertarians (very approved of), history graduates, singers or apostles of the free market. As for those who think the world is going to Hades in a hand basket, who are more worried about global warming and overpopulation than the coming ice age and underpopulation, who would wisely decline to lay down their life for private property rights being extended to the asteroid belt and Mars or who simply like to party on a universal income, they would be more than welcome to put their case to a sceptical audience (which might include a majority of sympathisers).  
GROUND FLOOR (320 Square metres)

The music room (lodger’s use) is 4.0 metres (east west) x 5.8 metres (north south) (23 square)
The kitchen (lodgers’ use) is 5.0 metres x 4.4 metres (20 square)
The breakfast room (lodgers’ use) is x 6.0 metres x 4.4 metres (26 square)
The cloakroom is 3.1 metres (east west) x 2.1 metres (6 square)
The library (lodgers’ use) is 5.3 metres x 4.4 metres (23 square)
The reception (landlord’s primary office) is 5.9 metres x 5.1 metres (30 square)
The atrium (landlord’s secondary office) is 4.2 metres (east west) x 10.6 metres (north south) (45 square)
The pool room (lodgers’ play area) is 7.9 metres x 10.6 metres (84 square)
The secondary kitchen landlord’s use) is 4.8 metres x 2.4 metres (12 square)
The shower room (collective use) is 4.8 metres x 8.0 metres (38 square)
The cloak rooms x2 (collective use)  3.0 metres x 1.4 metres (4 square)

FIRST FLOOR (117 Square metres)

The dressing (entrepreneur’s) room 4.3 metres x 2.8 metres(12 square)
The master bedroom (available) 5.2 metres x 6.1 metres (32 square)
The master bedroom en suite bathroom (available) 2.0 metres x 4.0 metres (8 square)
The family bathroom (three inhabitants use) 2.3 metres x 4.0 metres (9 square)
The Starboard Nacelle (independent’s) room 4.2 metres x 4.0 metres (17 square)
The Port Nacelle (available) room 4.0 metres x 4.0 metres (16 square)
The Port Nacelle en suite bathroom (available) 1.5 metres by 4.1 metres (6 square)
The Impulse Engine (available) Room (north west bedroom) 4.0 metres x 3.1 metres (12 square)
The Impulse Engine (available) en suite bathroom 1.3 metres x 2.8 metres (4 square)

The pool is currently not in aquatic use and would not be under the terms of this lodging. 
The rooms are available to couples but there would be a surcharge for a couple of £130 per month. 
Although there is no deposit taken the first two months of rent are payable in advance. For payment 11 or 12 months in advance there would be a 5% discount with a 4% discount for payments 9 or 10 months in advance and a 2% discount for payment 7 or 8 months in advance.
Summary & Exclusions:– Rent Amount: 4 rooms available, from £620.00 each per month (£143.08 per week)– Deposit / Bond: from £0.00 per room– 8 Bedroom Property (4 rooms currently available for rent)– 5 Bathrooms– Property comes furnished– Available to move in from 13 May 2026– Live-In Landlord– Minimum tenancy term is 5 months– Maximum number of tenants is 8– DSS enquiries welcome– Students welcome to enquire– No Pets, sorry– No Smokers– Not Suitable for Families / Children– Bills Included– Property has parking– Property has garden access– EPC Rating: EPC Not Required (Shared Accommodation)
If calling, please quote reference: 2684203
Fees:You will not be charged any admin fees.
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