5 bedroom detached house for sale

*Guide Price £950,000 - £975,000*
A handsome and intriguing Arts & Crafts style detached family house of 3,855 ft2, part of which is a separate annexe, and situated on a ridge overlooking the AONB of the Brede valley, in a country location with a detached studio/conservatory in the garden together with 0.51 of an acre.
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A handsome and intriguing Arts & Crafts style detached house (3,855ft2), originally converted from a former coach house to Westfield Place and benefiting from well-proportioned rooms with high ceilings.
The elevations are colourwashed brick beneath a tiled roof which was retiled in 2008, together with a brick and tile oast roundel, originally built as a harness room.
There is oil-fired central heating.
Wheel House provides wonderful accommodation for a family, part of which is a separate annexe, ideal for a relative/office/Air BnB. There is also a useful detached Studio/Conservatory in the garden, ideal as an office, gymnasium, or evening drinks.
The main features of the property are:
• Original front door (currently redundant) opens to a spacious T-shaped hall with bookshelves and door to the dining room/sun room. Cloak/shower room with walk-in tiled shower cubicle, basin with cupboard beneath, and WC.
• The useful study is panelled to half height.
• The well-proportioned drawing room features a brick fireplace with an imposing wooden surround and mantelpiece with inset mirror; range of bookshelves and a wood strip floor.
• From the drawing room there is a door to the annexe accommodation coloured pink on the floorplan and comprising a sun porch with door to the courtyard; fitted kitchen; shower room; roundel sitting room with staircase to roundel bedroom 5.
• The dining room/sunroom was created in 2020 by the present owners with a travertine tiled floor, skylight and bifold doors along the front elevation opening onto the paved south-facing courtyard. This room has become the hub of the house, being adjacent to the kitchen.
• The kitchen/breakfast room 26’4 x 15’5 overall with terracotta tiled floor, twin stainless steel sinks set in granite work surfaces with old pine cupboards and drawers beneath, plumbing for dishwasher. Professional Rangemaster cooker with extractor hood above. Space for upright American-style fridge freezer. Central island unit with cupboards and storage space for a microwave beneath. Bookshelves. Wide entrance through to the dining/family room and door to a side boot room with space for coats, wellington boots, etc, and door to the courtyard.

• The utility room has a range of cupboards, oil-fired central heating boiler and door to a useful freezer/store room.
• The first floor has a full length landing with cupboard.
• The principal suite comprises bedroom with walk-in wardrobe area and en suite bathroom with bath having shower attachment, twin basins with cupboards beneath and mirrors above, WC and tiled floor.
• Bedroom 2 is another double bedroom with basin and wardrobe cupboard. Tiled bathroom with bath having shower attachment, pedestal basin and WC.
• There are two further bedrooms, both of which have internal stairs to a first floor mezzanine study/sleeping area. This area has proved very appealing to teenagers.

Outside
Wheel House is approached over a side driveway off the lane leading to a large paved courtyard which is ideal as an entertaining area, adjacent to which is a brick garden/log store 12’8 x 9’3.

Special Note: a planning application has been submitted for the creation of a vehicular driveway off the lane to the north side of the house, and the vendors will undertake this work by forming a new drive approach/parking area once consent achieved.
This application also includes a detached garage/workshop and orangery attached to the house.

The garden is laid principally to lawn/rough grass with a number of shrubs, small orchard and established trees.
Another benefit within the garden is the delightful studio 13’11 x 7’5 with the attached conservatory 15’9 x 7’6.
In all about 0.51 of an acre.