5 bedroom detached house for sale

Guide price: £650,000-£675,000. A most attractive, individual and beautifully presented 5-bedroom detached house, which was built just 2 years’ ago to a high standard, situated in a convenient position within easy walking distance of village amenities and the station.

Guide price: £650,000 - £675,000
Situation: The property is situated in a convenient location at the end of the High Street in Etchingham village, with its pretty church, post office and shop, well regarded primary school and mainline station. The villages of Burwash (2½ miles distant), Hawkhurst (5½ miles distant), Hurst Green (2 miles distant) and Ticehurst (4 miles distant) all provide further local shops and amenities, and Heathfield is 9 miles to the West and offers a comprehensive range of amenities including supermarkets. The larger coastal town of Hastings lies 14 miles to the South and the Spa town of Tunbridge Wells with its excellent shopping facilities is approximately 17 miles to the North.

Etchingham station is less than ¼ mile distant and provides a regular service to London Bridge, Waterloo East, Charing Cross and Cannon Street. The A21 is also within 2 miles and provides a direct link to the M25 (junction 5) and the coast. Gatwick Airport is about 50 miles to the west, the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone is about 40 miles to the east and London is about 60 miles away.

The area is extremely well served with educational facilities for all age groups – as well as village primary school there is Vinehall School, Battle Abbey, and the villages of Wadhurst, Heathfield and Robertsbridge all have Community Colleges.

The beautiful surrounding countryside is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and includes Bewl Water Reservoir, reputedly the largest area of inland water in the Southeast, where a wide range of water sports can be enjoyed.

Description: Wayside is an individual detached house built in 2021 with attractive external elevations of brick and weatherboard beneath a tiled roof and double-glazed windows and doors throughout. The property is immaculately presented and beautifully appointed throughout, providing spacious and flexible accommodation of approximately 1598sq.ft/148.5sq.m and benefits from off-road parking for several cars, landscaped side and rear gardens, and a useful workshop.

Arranged over three floors, the accommodation on the ground floor has underfloor heating and includes: a spacious entrance hall; a triple aspect sitting/dining room which extends to 22’7 and has bi-folding doors leading out to the garden; a cloakroom; a utility room; a good-sized, well-appointed kitchen/breakfast room, which is fitted with an extensive range of contemporary wall and base units with Corian worksurfaces, tiled splashbacks, island with breakfast bar and solid oak worktop, range cooker with induction hob, and bi-folding doors leading out to the garden. On the first floor there are four double bedrooms (two are currently arranged as home offices and a third is used as a dressing room),
a family bathroom and ensuite. On the second floor is a further double bedroom and a bathroom.

Outside, the property is approached through brick pillars to a large block-paved driveway providing off road parking for several cars. The property has a brick wall to the front and close board fencing to the sides and rear boundary. There is a gate giving access along the side of the house with a garden shed and charging point for an electric vehicle, which leads to the rear garden. The rear garden has been landscaped with terracing outside the kitchen and sitting/dining room, ideal for outdoor entertaining, with steps up to an area of lawn with railings and sleeper beds planted with shrubs and climbing plants. There is a further area of garden on the south side of the house, which is laid to lawn with a timber outbuilding/workshop with power and sleeper beds planted with olive trees. To the left of the property is an additional driveway with further parking for two cars.

Current energy efficiency rating: B
Local Authority: Rother District Council[use Contact Agent Button] Services:
Mains water and electricity. Air source heat pump Council tax band: F (£3,475.73 per annum)