Capel St Mary
A pleasant rural enclave, situated between Ipswich and Colchester, Capel St Mary offers you a tranquil retreat from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Just two miles from Dedham Vale, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a new build home in Capel St Mary offers walking and biking trails straight from home - with city life on the doorstep.
Capel St Mary has a very large playing field featuring a range of pitches and courts for tennis, football, cricket and a bowling green. There's also a children's playground and a village hall hosting lots of local groups, clubs and events. Your new house in Capel St Mary is close to the local primary school with secondary schools available in nearby Ipswich. There are good facilities in the village including a well-supported pub, hairdressers, bakery, newsagents and a doctor's surgery with pharmacy. Whether you're grabbing groceries, meeting friends for a meal, or running errands, you'll have everything you need in your new home, Capel St Mary.
New Homes in Capel St Mary
Living in Capel St Mary
Great road links from home
Your new property in Capel St Mary is close to the A12, the key route all the way through Essex from Greater London and the M25, and on up through Suffolk to Lowestoft. The A12 joins the A14 on the outskirts of Ipswich, providing a bypass route on the way to Felixstowe.
A network of country roads cross the countryside to the North West of your new home in Capel St Mary, linking with the A131 and A134 between Bury St Edmunds and Braintree. It takes about 20 minutes to drive the 13 miles to Colchester, 15 minutes to drive to Ipswich and 30 minutes to drive the 25 miles to Harwich. Public transport is provided by the local bus service, with the mainline railway station in Ipswich giving you a direct service to London Liverpool Street, taking under an hour and a half.
Ipswich and Colchester
As an idyllic village, Capel St Mary is a great base to commute to the larger hubs of Ipswich and Colchester for employment, retail, entertainment and leisure. Great facilities in two very different places. Ipswich has a maritime heritage and though the dock area has now been transformed into a thriving leisure hub packed with bars and restaurants, it still plays an important commercial role hand in hand with the ferry town of Harwich and the container port of Felixstowe.
Your new home in Suffolk
Suffolk is one of the UK’s most rural counties. It’s so unspoilt and so easy to get off the beaten track. If you drive inland from your new home in Capel St Mary, you’ll come across stunning timber-framed houses in chocolate box villages like Lavenham. If you head to the coast, in the Suffolk Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, you’ll find riverside market towns like Woodbridge, remote coastal settlements like Orford and traditional seaside towns like Aldeburgh. With a new build home in Capel St Mary, you have the countryside, coast and city all nearby.
Capel St Mary new builds for sale
Persimmon Homes has a number of new houses available in Capel St Mary and new builds in Suffolk, including new homes in Colchester and Felixstowe. To find out more about our available properties in your area, see our list of Persimmon developments below…