New build homes for sale in Capel St Mary

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.

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.

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.