Property description
Price Range £500,000 - £540,000
A beautifully renovated and extended 3 bedroom detached country cottage set in pretty established well stocked mature gardens. Featuring a stunning farmhouse kitchen/breakfast room, study/dining room, a spacious sitting room with a handsome log burning stove, three double bedrooms, three modern, but traditional bathrooms. Off road parking and detached double garage. Sitiuated in a quiet semi-rural location about a mile from the village of Horam.
A quiet country lane location, within easy access of the local inn and garage at Vines Cross and about a mile from the larger village of Horam with its various shops & amenities serving day to day needs, including doctor's surgery, chemist and vets. The coast at Eastbourne is about 12 miles and Heathfield town centre about 4 miles. Royal Tunbridge Wells and the country town of Lewes can both be reached within half an hour or so and there is a good selection of both state and private schools throughout the area. Approached via Laundry lane, leading to off road parking for a couple of vehicles and a double detached garage with electric up and over doors. From the parking area a cottage style pathway leads through a mature garden stocked with a variety of shrubs, trees and perennials.
Front door to:
Entrance Hall
Stripped wooden floor, radiator, alarm, stairs to upper floors and understairs storage.
Kitchen/Breakfast room
4.5m x 5.87m
max. A most impressive extended \"T\" shaped room, allowing for a good sized table at one end. Two double windows across the rear and a further window to the right hand side, with double glazed French doors to the left leading out to the garden and overhead Velux providing plenty of light. Range of Shaker-style wall and base units, in Farrow & Ball pale powder blue, floor to ceiling storage with display unit and plate rack. A mixture of tiled, granite and butcher\"s block work surfaces with inset ceramic butler sink and antique style mixer tap. Integrated AEG electric hob and appliances including a tall fridge/freezer. Oil fired cream Rayburn running the cooking, hot water and heating. Three radiators. Attractive floor tiles complementing the kitchen units.
Access to dining room and door to patio outside doors:
Inner Lobby
Hanging space for coats and boot storage, dogs etc., and access to garden and further access to:
Cloakroom
Low level WC, wash basin with tiled splash back, tiled floor, double glazed window.Radiator.
Dining room
2.69m x 3.68m
A bright, double aspect room with stripped wood flooring, telephone point, radiator and double doors leading to sitting room.
Living room
3.66m x 7.0m
max. Extended to create flexible living, split between a library area, with space for a table to read at with bespoke fitted book shelving, ample storage cupboard below and double doors to the garden. The other side of this room incorporates a bay window, the focal point being a brick fireplace with inset cast iron woodburner, tiled hearth and ornate wooden surround. Three radiators and return door to hallway.
First floor galleried landing
With stripped wooden banister. Airing cupboard with shelving and radiator
Bathroom
Heated towel rail. Spot lighting. Cast iron free standing bath with shower attachment, low level w.c with medium height cistern, pedestal wash basin with period style chrome taps, wooden floor and wooden panelling on the walls finished in a tasteful farrow & ball period paint. Airing cupboard housing pressurised hot water tank providing instant hotwater through out the house.
Bedroom 2
3.69m x 3.69m
Double aspect room with stripped wood floor, period feature cast iron fireplace and surround, double glazed window overlooking the rear of the property. Radiator.
Bedroom 1 Master
3.66m x 3.68m
Ornate Iron feature fireplace, double glazed window, radiator, and good size room. Door to;
Dressing room
1.71m x 2.18m
Built in double his and hers wardrobes with hanging, radiator and windows overlooking the front of the property. Access to spacious attic with boarded floor. Door to:
En Suite
2.9m x 1.75m
Bathroom suite which includes a separate shower cubicle as well as a bath.
Second Floor Landing
Door from landing to enclosed area giving access to stairs leading to 2nd floor and small storage area.Window to the side for light.
Bedroom 3
3.55m x 4.1m
Perfect as a guest suite with plenty of light from a gable end window and Velux roof window, radiator. Galleried landing.
En suite
Through a latch door, Walk in glass shower cubicle with chrome mixer controls,extractor,pedestal wash basin, heated towel rail, panel bath with hand held shower attachment, part tiled walls, Velux window. Access to remainder of boarded loft space with light. Restricted head height and an ideal general storage area.
Outside
The garden has secure fenced boundary to front. Gated access and path leading to hard standing for two vehicles in front of the double detached garage with electrically operated up and over doors to front and personal door to side, power and light connected.
A most attractive picture-book façade with mature Climber to the front of the house which extends onto a timber lean-to log storage, and archway laced with Honeysuckle. There is access round the entire house and raised by kitchen forming iron railings. Beyond is a courtyard area (with outside power) on slightly different levels,tiered to lower garden from house. Encompassing lots of ferns and moss growing amongst the wet rockery set in raised edging and a Laurel hedge marks the boundary. The drainage is septic tank which is cunningly concealed in a wooden shed within the garden. The oil tank is stored by the house.
Agents note
Please note that these details have been prepared as a general guide and do not form part of a contract. We have not carried out a detailed survey, nor tested the services, appliances and specific fittings. Room sizes are approximate and should not be relied upon. Any verbal statements or information given about this property, again, should not be relied on and should not form part of a contract or agreement to purchase.
Directions
From our offices in Heathfield, turn left on Station Road. Drop down the hill to the traffic lights by the Prince of Wales, and turn right onto the Hailsham Road, passing the shops and continuing on through Maynards Green into Horam. Take the first turning left into Vines Cross Road and continue to the junction. Turn right into Laundry Lane and after about 200 yards, The property will be found on the left hand side.