Brooming Burgh Hill, Etchingham, East , TN19 7PB BROOMING

A handsome and very appealing character house with potential to extend, • Hall • Kitchen • Large Workshop privately set within a beautiful garden and grounds with stabling and paddock • Cloakroom/WC • Utility Room • Garage and Stabling (both in • Drawing Room • 5 Bedrooms need of upgrading) - in all about 2.3 acres. Enjoying farmland views yet a 400 yard level walk to • Sitting Room • Bathroom • Beautiful Garden and Etchingham village and mainline station • Dining Room • Shower Room Paddock - in all about 2.3 acres AMENITIES Brooming is ideally located to the western end of Burgh Hill and only 400 yards east from Etchingham station ( Bridge/Charing Cross) and village. The present owner who commuted to London for many years was thus able to walk to the station and enjoy a country lifestyle. There is a popular bistro at the station as well as an excellent village shop/ delicatessen, a butcher’s shop, Post Office, parish church and village hall. Hurst Green on the A21 is about 1 mile. , with its attractive tree lined high street and various amenities including an excellent village store, is 3 miles. Hawkhurst and its broad range of shops, supermarket and general amenities, is some 4.3 miles whilst Tunbridge Wells is about 16.4 miles. State and private schools in the area include Hurst Green and Etchingham Primary Schools; Community College; Bricklehurst Manor at Stonegate; Vinehall at Robertsbridge; Battle Abbey at Battle; Marlborough House and St Ronan’s at Hawkhurst. DESCRIPTION Brooming is a handsome and very appealing detached character house originally built in 1926 with later additions and offers the potential to create a much larger country house, subject to planning consent. The elevations are brick beneath a slate roof and there is oil fired central heating. Wonderful westerly views from the garden are enjoyed across adjoining farmland. The main features include: • front door to entrance hall with cloakroom • the drawing room has an open fireplace and full length windows and doors at one end overlooking the garden. The sitting room also has an open fireplace • the dining room has recessed shelving either side of a former fireplace which has been converted into a bookcase, and is adjacent to the kitchen. The utility room is accessed from outside. • the first floor has 4 bedrooms plus a bathroom with WC and separate shower room • a staircase rises to Bedroom 5 which has walk in roof storage. OUTSIDE The garden and grounds form a delightful and private setting with a large parking area for several cars to the side of which is a single garage. To the rear of the house is a Garden Store 14’3 x 13’9 including oil tank. There is a path leading up to the front door, areas of lawn, flower beds and a selection of trees and shrubs including a walnut tree, cotoneaster, etc, and within the grounds is a 60’ well.

The remainder of the garden is principally lawned with areas of rough grass, wild flowers and a wonderful selection of specimen trees and shrubs providing colour throughout the seasons, including a number of apple trees and a small copse. There is an Amdega summerhouse with light and power connected which was formerly used as an art studio, from where wonderful views are enjoyed; this is sited upon a WWII Pill Box which has acted as a very good wine cellar. There is also an area of light woodland running along the north eastern boundary. Beyond is a good sized paddock next to an excellent Store/Workshop 17’8 x 11’9 and two timber Loose Boxes (in need of renovation). In all about 2.3 acres. DIRECTION From the church in the centre of Etchingham proceed in an easterly direction over the railway crossing and after a further 400 yards take the first turning left into Burgh Hill. The entrance drive to Brooming will then be found shortly on the left. Additional Information: Local Authority: Council, Bexhill-on-Sea. Telephone 01424 787000. www.rother.gov.uk Services (not checked or tested): Mains electricity, water and drainage. No mains gas. Links: www.environment-agency.gov.uk, www.highways.gov.uk, www.caa.co.uk, www.landregistry.gov.uk Tenure: Freehold. Land Registry Title Number ESX28740 PRICE GUIDE: £890,000

VIEWINGS For an appointment to view please contact our Battle Office, telephone 01424 775577

Battle Haywards Heath Pulborough Tunbridge Wells London 01424 775577 01444 453181 01798 872081 01892 512020 Mayfair Office [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Brooming, Burgh Hill, Etchingham, , TN19 7PB APPROX. GROSS INTERNAL FLOOR AREA 1846 SQ FT 171.4 SQ METRES (EXCLUDES GARAGE & OUTBUILDING)

Down Store / Workshop Bedroom 5 17'8 (5.38) 12'7 (3.84) x 11'9 (3.58) x 12'7 (3.84)

NOTE: Batcheller Monkhouse gives notice that: OUTBUILDING Utility Room 1. These particulars including text, 12' (3.66) x 7' (2.13) SECOND FLOOR photographs and any plans are for the guidance of prospective purchasers only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact; 2. The particulars do not constitute any part of a Contract; 3. Any description provided herein represents a subjective Dining Room Bedroom 4 opinion and should not be construed as 12'7 (3.84) Bedroom 3 11'9 (3.58) max 11'9 (3.58) max statements of fact; 4. A detailed survey has x 11'9 (3.58) x 8'3 (2.51) max Kitchen x 11'8 (3.56) max Stable not been carried out, nor have any services, 11'5 (3.48) 11' (3.35) appliances or specific fittings been tested; x 8'5 (2.57) x 11' (3.35) Down 5. All measurements and distances are approximate; 6. We strongly advise that a prospective purchaser should contact the agent to check any information which is of particular importance, particularly for anyone who will be travelling some distance to view the property; 7. Where Drawing Room Bedroom 1 20' (6.10) Sitting Room Bedroom 2 13' (3.96) 13'2 (4.01) max Stable there is reference to planning permission x 13' (3.96) 13'3 (4.04) max x 12'5 (3.78) max Up x 12'7 (3.84) x 11'6 (3.51) max Up 11' (3.35) or potential, such information is given in x 11' (3.35) good faith. Purchasers should make their own enquiries of the relevant authority; 8. Any fixtures & fittings not mentioned in the sales particulars are excluded from the sale, but various items may be available, OUTBUILDING 1 GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR subject to separate negotiation.

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