Farm for sale
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- 5 bedrooms
- 4 reception rooms
- 3 bathrooms
- 90.30 acres
- Outbuildings
- Period
- Detached
- Double Garage
- Equestrian
- Garden
An attractive double fronted Grade II listed 15th century farmhouse, believed to date back to the Tudor period, built of red brick and tile hung upper elevations with later additions. The property offers flexible family accommodation with a wealth of character features including exposed timbers and an inglenook fireplace.
The house also offers the potential to create a two bedroom self-contained ground floor annexe, ideal for multi-generational living, if required.
Gardens and Grounds
The house is approached via a tree-lined driveway leading to the parking area at the front of the house and a double garage with attached workshop. The front garden is laid to lawn and divided into various sections, divided by formal hedging. To the rear of the house there is a paved terrace as well as a vegetable garden. To one end of the terrace a gate leads through to the swimming pool with paved surround, enclosed on all sides by hedge/wall borders, and a further paved terrace.
Land and Outbuildings
The property has been a working, productive farm during the current owners' tenure for the last 35 years. The land totals about 90.3 acres and boasts water to all fields, extensive fencing and hedging. It has been farmed under organic farming principles since 1989 and under Soil Association Certification 1999-2023 (inclusive). The current owners have also restored traditional hedgerows across the entire 90 acres and there is an abundance of wildlife including wild fowl, roe deer and trout in the two streams traversing the property.
At the rear of the garage, there are numerous attached agricultural buildings comprising a large traditional Sussex barn (believed to date back to the 18th century), stables, wood store, tack room, cattle barn, various store rooms and greenhouse. To one side of the house, with separate vehicular access, there is a further extensive range of agricultural buildings.
NB: The property is available with only approximately 50 acres (ie excluding circa 40 acres to the west with access from Chilsham Lane) if a buyer preferred, subject to negotiation.
Planning
The barns offer huge potential with lapsed planning permission to convert into ancillary accommodation and a link walkway to the main house. Further details are available at: quoting reference: WD/2003/0119/JF.
Lapsed planning permission also exists for the barns for change of use to as ancillary holiday accommodation. Further details are available at: quoting reference: WD/1987/1474/F.
Herstmonceux 2.2 miles. Rushlake Green 3.4 miles. Heathfield 7.4 miles. South coast 7.8 miles. Battle 9.5 miles (London Bridge from 76 minutes). A21 (Johns Cross) 9.7 miles. Stonegate 12 miles (London Bridge about 1 hour). Etchingham 14.3 miles (London Bridge from 65 minutes). Tunbridge Wells 20 miles. (All times and distances approximate)
The property is located in the Wealden village of Bodle Street Green which has a pub, church and village hall. The property is within close proximity to the larger villages of Rushlake Green (2 miles) and Herstmonceux (3 miles) both of which offer amenities for local shopping. The south coast is within easy driving distance and the major towns of Tunbridge Wells and the county town of Lewes are both about 20 miles distant. Eastbourne and the market town of Heathfield also offer a variety of shopping, commercial and recreational facilities, as does the historic town of Battle. Stonegate, Etchingham and Battle stations (all around 10 miles away) offer a good train service to London. The A21 at Battle provides connections to the national motorway network and the M25 giving access to London Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The M20 provides connections to the Channel Tunnel, the ferry ports and the International Eurostar station at Ashford.
There is an excellent choice of state and private schools in the area with the popular schools of Dallington Primary School, St Andrews Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Eastbourne College, Vine Hall at Robertsbridge, Bede's at Upper Dicker and Mayfield (girls).
Leisure facilities in the area include golf courses at Horam, Battle, Eastbourne, Piltdown and the East Sussex National Course at Little Horsted. Riding and walking in the surrounding countryside. Opera at Glyndebourne. Sailing at south coast centres, Bewl Water and at Eastbourne Marina.
Property information from this agent
Places of interest
See more properties like this:
*DISCLAIMER
Property reference TNW012308633. The information displayed about this property comprises a property advertisement. OnTheMarket.com makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the advertisement or any linked or associated information, and OnTheMarket.com has no control over the content provided by the agent or developer. This property advertisement does not constitute property particulars. The information is provided and maintained by Knight Frank - Tunbridge Wells.
OnTheMarket may have applied supplementary data to this property listing, including:
Broadband availability and predicted speed
Broadband speed is measured in megabits per second, with the number returned showing how fast the connection is. Each reading is based on the highest predicted speed of any major broadband network for services that deliver the download speeds. The following are the different readings that we may display:
Basic: Up to 30 Mbit/s
Super-fast: Between 30 Mbit/s and 300 Mbit/s
Ultra-fast: Over 300 Mbit/s
The data is updated three times a year. The checker results are predictions and should not be regarded as guaranteed. For more information, see: https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/about-checker#Answer_0_2
Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength
Mobile signal predictions are provided by the four UK mobile network operators: EE, O2, Three and Vodafone. Predictions can vary significantly from the coverage you may actually experience as a result of local factors (especially terrain). Ofcom has tested the actual coverage provided in various locations around the UK to help ensure that these predictions are reasonable. The values shown against a property can be broken down as follows:
Clear: No bars, no signal predicted
Red: One bar, reliable signal unlikely
Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
Green: Three bars, likely to have good coverage and receive a data rate to support basic web services
Enhanced: Full bars, likely to have good coverage indoors and to receive an enhanced data rate to support multimedia services
Energy Performance data and Internal floor area
Any supplementary data should not be relied upon as forming part of any property particulars and OnTheMarket cannot be held responsible for any incorrectness in this data. See here for more information.