4 bedroom detached house

An attractive Grade II listed family house, we understand the property dates back to about 1450 at its oldest part, with further significant additions, including the kitchen, added in the mid-18th Century. Much modernised and updated during our clients’ ownership, the property benefits from many period features that one would expect of a property of this era, including exposed beams, some beautiful old brickwork and with much of the old house being built in local stone and brick under a clay-tile roof.

To the ground floor is a wonderful through-flow of reception spaces, incorporating two principal reception rooms. Both reception rooms offer good ceiling heights and period fireplaces, with an open fire to the drawing room, while the sitting room in turn features a log burning stove in a stunning old hearth.

The kitchen breakfast room is also a real highlight of the property, with the windows here looking out over the surrounding formal gardens to the paddocks beyond. Home Farm benefits from excellent flexibility of accommodation, with three bedrooms on the first floor, while to the ground floor is a self-contained bedroom suite, perfect for an au pair or older visiting relatives.

Located off the courtyard to the front of the property, the barn at Home Farm benefits from garaging and two secure stores to the ground floor, while to the first floor is the self-contained annexe/guest flat which is currently let out on an assured shorthold tenancy. This annexe is perfect to provide either an income for the property, or indeed for additional spillover accommodation. Please note the annexe currently pays council tax and is metered separately for electricity.

The property is accessed via an old farm gate into a gravelled courtyard providing parking for numerous cars. To the rear of the property the main house is bounded by sun terraces and formal lawns, with established shrub borders and a kitchen garden. Beyond this and separated from the main gardens via a post-and-rail fence, is the meadow, with the whole property being bounded by mature trees allowing for great privacy.

Across the farm lane from the main house is a secondary area of land which is currently used for the grazing of horses and has historically been used to graze sheep. Here lies the agricultural barn, currently used for storage and a small paddock.

LOT 2 - To the south of the small barn and paddock is a further parcel of land of about 6.79 acres, which benefits from two paddocks as well as a field shelter with two stables and a tack room. This parcel of land benefits from two separate entrances onto the public highway, one off the farm track opposite the main house, while the secondary access leads directly onto Miggs Lane.

The property occupies a private and secluded setting on the edge of the village of Fernhurst within the South Downs National park. The village provides a number of local shops, a post office, church, primary school, doctors’ surgery, village hall, and a highly regarded public house, The Red Lion. The picturesque village green creates the quintessential English setting. More comprehensive shopping facilities are available in the nearby towns of Haslemere, Midhurst, Petworth and Petersfield.

Communications in the area are excellent, with London being approximately 48 miles away and with the A3 giving access to the south coast, the M25 and Gatwick, Heathrow and Southampton airports. Sporting facilities are superb, with racing at Goodwood and Fontwell, polo at Cowdray Park and sailing off the south coast at Chichester. For the arts, the Festival Theatre in Chichester together with the concert hall in Guildford are also within easy reach.

Within the area there is an excellent range of preparatory and senior schools including Ditcham Park, Churcher’s and Bedales at Petersfield, Westbourne House at Chichester, Seaford College near Petworth, Highfield and Brookham at Liphook and Amesbury and St Edmund’s at Hindhead. Other schools include Charterhouse at Godalming, King Edward’s in Witley and Cranleigh School.