31 Leicester Road is a fine red brick late Victorian property providing light-filled accommodation. Configured to provide an ideal family and entertaining space, the ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming entrance hall and comprises a generous sitting room with feature cast iron open fireplace flanked on each side by bespoke storage and a large modern family bathroom. Stairs from the reception hall lead down to an extensive open plan lower ground floor kitchen, dining and family room, the kitchen featuring a range of wall and base units, wooden worktops and a part-glazed door to the rear terrace. The remaining space, configurable to the purchaser’s own requirements, has space for a sizeable table and a sitting area with feature panelled wall and fireplace with woodburning stove. On the first floor the property offers a large front aspect principal bedroom with built-in storage and feature cast iron open fireplace and one further rear aspect double bedroom. The property’s remaining double bedroom can be found on the second floor.

Set behind low-level stone walling and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached through a wrought iron gate over a block-paved path leading to the front door. The enclosed garden to the rear is laid mainly to lawn bordered by well-stocked raised flower and shrub beds and features a paved terrace with external utility room and W.C. together with a weatherboarded summer house/home office at the end of the garden, also accessible through a door from a rear alleyway and with French doors to a raised decked terrace, the whole ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.

Located just to the west of both Lewes High Street and the town’s mainline railway station, Leicester Road enjoys excellent parking and a popular corner shop on the corner with Valence Road and benefits from easy access to local parks with recreational facilities, a wildlife pond and walks along the River Ouse. The vibrant and historic county town of Lewes forms part of the South Downs National Park and provides an excellent range of individual shops, supermarkets including Waitrose, cafés, restaurants, public houses and recreational facilities including a cinema and racecourse. More comprehensive amenities are available in Haywards Heath and in the coastal business and entertainment city of Brighton. Communications links are excellent: the nearby A27 provides fast access to the A23 which links to the M23 and provides fast access to the national motorway network, London Gatwick Airport and central London, and Lewes station offers regular direct links to central London in a little over an hour. The area offers a good range of state primary and secondary schooling together with a wide election of noted independent schools including Lewes Old Grammar, Northease Manor, Roedean, Brighton College, Windlesham, Lancing College, Brighton Girls, Burgess Hill Girls and Hurstpierpoint College.