Gorehill House is believed to date from 1872 and was commissioned by the then manager of the Leconfield Estate, Henry Upton, and designed by the noted Victorian architect Sir Norman Shaw. A substantial Victorian villa, Gorehill House benefits from beautifully proportioned family accommodation over three floors with many features one would expect from a property of this era including generously proportioned rooms, excellent ceiling heights and large windows allowing the property to be flooded with natural light throughout the day.

The principal reception rooms – the drawing room, sitting room and library – are located on the south elevation and all have access immediately on to the sun terraces beyond and look south over the surrounding countryside.

The property benefits from some beautiful period features including stone mullioned windows, original flooring, the staircase, stone and timber flooring as well as many original fireplaces.

Gorehill House offers wonderful flexibility of accommodation with the bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchenette to the top floor providing an excellent self-contained suite if required.

The property offers an incoming purchaser a wonderful opportunity to extend or reconfigure subject to the usual consents. We understand that the property benefited from a planning consent, now expired, to extend on the eastern elevation, adding large kitchen and a spa facility featuring a sauna and indoor swimming pool. Another previous consent allowed for the coach house to be converted into a two-bedroom guest cottage.

Outside, the property is accessed via old wrought iron gates with a formal driveway winding through the grounds to a turning area providing parking for several cars and leading in turn to the front door, kitchen courtyard, walled garden, triple garage and paddock land beyond. The grounds immediately surrounding the house are primarily laid to lawn with some established shrub borders and wonderful sun terraces lead off the southern elevation, taking advantage of the elevated position with exceptional views south over the surrounding West Sussex countryside. The property also features a flat area of lawn, once home to a Victorian lawn tennis court, which is a perfect children's play area or croquet lawn. Further to this are the orchard, a belt of woodland and three paddocks with stables.

Of interest, the courtyard to the rear of the property provides wonderful entertaining space during the summer months and is sheltered by the coach house and walled garden. This building is currently used as machinery and garden storage but would provide an excellent building suitable for use as a guest cottage subject to the usual consents.

Byworth 0.5 miles, Petworth 0.75 miles, Midhurst 7 miles, Pulborough 5 miles (London Bridge 75 minutes, London Victoria 70 minutes), Haslemere 12 miles (London Waterloo 56 minutes), Chichester 15 miles, London 54 miles, Gatwick Airport 28 miles, Heathrow Airport 48 miles

(All distances and times are approximate)