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Custom Build Package
Stamp Duty Example
CGI Plot 1
CGI Plot 5
Plots 1 & 5
CGI Plots 2, 4 & 6
Plots 2, 4 & 6
CGI Plot 3
Plot 3
CGI 5 Forest View
Plot 5 Forest View
Example Interior
Example Interior
Example Interior
CGI Kitchen
Example Interior
CGI Bathroom
CGI Bathroom
Example Interior
Semi-Rural Living
Nr Ashdown Forest
Site Plan

5 bedroom detached house

Featured
New build
Air source heat pump
Energy-efficient
Detached house
5 beds
3 baths
2707
Added > 14 days

Key information

TenureFreehold
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Features and description

  • Ever dreamed of building your own home?
  • A Custom Build could be right for you
  • Purchase the land
  • Abode Homes will build it for you according to your own internal specifications
  • After choosing your specifications, sit back and wait for your dream home to evolve
  • Plot price from £495,000; build price from £895,000 - Total cost from £1,390,000
Plot with Luxury Custom-Build package in the highly regarded Maresfield Park, nestled on the southern end of Ashdown Forest.

Description

Plots with Luxury Custom Build package, situated in the highly regarded Maresfield Park nestled on the southern end of Ashdown Forest. These generous plots give the opportunity to create an outstanding turnkey residence to the purchaser's detailed specifications.

Viewings strictly by appointment with the Agent. The site is a working building site and visitors must be accompanied.

Please be advised that the plot cannot be bought separately.


Property Description
With full planning permission already in place, clients can be fully involved in the creative experience. The concept, brought to you by award-winning Abode Homes, marries the design vision of the purchaser with the expertise of a professional construction and management team.

Each plot is generous enough to yield a five-bedroom property of between 2,707 and 3,067 square feet, with a private landscaped garden and a double detached car barn. As standard will be a thermally- and energy-efficient end product crafted using the finest materials, with no limit of how lavish the internal specification can be. as an added bonus, stamp duty is only payable on the cost of the land and not on the build.

Specification
The incoming purchaser has the opportunity to choose their own internal specifications; below is used as an example

Kitchen/dining/family room
- Contemporary British made kitchens are available in matt or gloss finishes
- Quartz worktops
- Parquet flooring
- Appliances including washing machine/dryer, dishwasher, oven, hob and extractor, fridge freezer.

Bathrooms
- Modern white bathroom suites
- Contemporary/period fitted furniture
- Quartz stone tops
- Porcelain wall and floor tiles

Lighting
- Low energy LED spotlights throughout
- Pendants for feature lighting to principal rooms

Decorative finishes
- Wool blend carpets
- Farrow & Ball paint colours to walls and ceilings
- Woodwork to be finished in Farrow & Ball eggshell
- Parquet flooring
- Porcelain tiles

Stamp Duty example breakdown:
Residential property
Value £1,390,000 Stamp Duty = £82,750 (from 1 April 2025)

Custom Build Stamp Duty only payable on the land value
Value from £495,000 = £12,250 (from 1 April 2025)

Total potential Stamp Duty saving = £70,500

Location

Maresfield has a primary school, parish church, Post Office, local shop, an 18th century public house/hotel and a recently opened M&S food hall. Comprehensive shopping: Uckfield three miles, Lewes 12 miles, Tunbridge Wells 14 miles.

There is a vibrant cultural scene in Sussex, with world-class opera at Glyndebourne, theatre at Royal Tunbridge Wells, and the nearby historic County town of Lewes and the annual Brighton Festival presenting a huge programme of theatre, dance, classical music and literary events.

Rail Services: Buxted (London Bridge from 63 minutes), Uckfield (London Bridge from 70 minutes), Haywards Heath (London Bridge/Victoria from 42 minutes) and Tunbridge Wells (Charing Cross/Cannon Street from 52 minutes).

Schools: There are a number of state and independent schools and colleges in the local area, including Bonners CEP school, Uckfield Community Technology College, Cumnor House, Great Walstead, Brambletye, Michael Hall, Ardingly College, Bede’s and Brighton College. Some private schools offer bus services for students which stop in the village.

All distances and journey times are approximate.

Square Footage: 2,707 sq ft



Additional Info

Agent’s Notes: Images are CGIs and are for illustrative purposes only.

Viewings strictly by appointment with the Agent. The site is a working building site and visitors must be accompanied.

Services: Central heating via an air source heat pump. Private drainage.

Outgoings: Wealden District Council. Tax band TBC.
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About this agent

Savills - Haywards Heath
Savills - Haywards Heath
4 Chelsea Arcade, The Broadway Haywards Heath RH16 3AP
01444 683522
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At Savills Hayward's Heath, our dedication to communicate clearly and honestly with clients is what sets us apart. Whatever your needs, our team are able to guide you through every step of the process, keeping you fully informed from start to finish. We can also tap into the expertise of our London-based teams on matters such as tax, finance, and international markets. Our services cover both town and country in and around Haywards Heath. Our local residential team know all there is to know about Haywards Heath and the surrounding mid-Sussex villages. Most visited website Savills.co.uk is the most visited UK national estate agency website, averaging over 2.4 million visits a month in 2020, and recording over 3.1 million visits in January 2021. Global exposure Our site is available in 22 languages including English, Chinese, Spanish and Russian. This guarantees your property will have the global exposure it deserves as well as providing access to more buyers via our website. Put simply, because we get more qualified visits, you get more opportunities to sell.
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