Room in a Shared House, Withindale Lane, CO10

The "Commodore's Cabin" is a first floor double room (all bills included) with an en suite bathroom (40 metres square the two). The room overlooks the river Stour to the north as it flows directly toward the house and slightly to the side of the room's north north east facing window. It is lit from two sides and is not unbeautiful. The room is in a shared house built 1805 of 440 square metres internal floor area set in peaceful and secluded grounds within-the-dale (with 160 metres of river frontage) beside the beautiful village of Long Melford. 

The property benefits from off street parking, gas central heating (the boiler is newish), a fruitful apple and pear orchard and raspberries plants at the back of the house. 

The £880 per month all inclusive, not un-splendid, room is on the first floor. The en suite bathroom has a bath not a shower. Babergh District Council forbids letting to couples in this case (as there is a limit on the number of potential lodgers at this address which a couple would breach).

There is a good chance that the music room will be becoming available too, circa 01-Mar-2025. The does not have an en suite bathroom. The rent for the music room, including all the bills, will be £640 per month (couples again forbidden by Babergh District Council).

Breaking the bills down (for your information) and amortising between a putative six inhabitants the council tax comes to £60 per month, the water bill £8 per month, the power bill circa £140 per month, £7 for the (optical fibre) internet and £35 for gardening, being £250 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. 

The property is peradventure shared with a forty something lady wine boutique manageress, a forty something website designing gentleman entrepreneur who performs gymnastics in the (waterless) swimming pool (gym), a sixty something gentleman online games (Bull Run also known as Manassas Junction 1861 - advertising due to begin in November 2024), and hopefully, Time Machine inventor-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 fifty something, cellist and music editor, a thirty something performer-casual worker of private means, a fifty something earth loving (!) care-worker-sage, and two twenty something scholars, including a statistician, who are a couple,  and, from time to time, particular friends of the aforementioned seven (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, libertarians (very approved of), physicists in need of a transluminal-travel project, history graduates, singers or apostles of the free market. Degree holders are preferred (though barely a plurality). 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 they would be more than welcome to put their case to a sceptical audience (which might include a majority of sympathisers).  

The Room is offered to single persons not couples (which would include single parents with a single child).

GROUND FLOOR (320 Square metres)

• The music room (landlord's bedroom) is 4.0 metres (east west) x 5.8 metres (north south) (23 square)
  
• The kitchen (lodger's use) is 5.0 metres x 4.4 metres (20 square)
  
• The breakfast room (lodger's 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 (sage's bedroom) 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 (landlord's) kitchen 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 room is 3.0 mertres x 1.4 metres (4 square)
  
• Cellar 3.2 metres x 5.3 metres (15 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 (craftsman's use) Room (north west bedroom) 4.0 metres x 3.1 metres (12 square)
  
• The Impulse Engine (craftsman's use) 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.

Although there is no deposit (against damages) taken, the first three months of rent are payable in advance.