Elegant Georgian Home in a Rural Yet Accessible Location
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Elegant Georgian home in a rural yet accessible location Hops House, Stairbridge Lane, Bolney, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH17 5PA Freehold Reception hall • Drawing room • Study • Kitchen • Orangery breakfast room/sitting room • Utility room • Cloakroom • Lower ground floor comprising family room, play room and wine cellar • Principal bedroom with en suite bathroom • 4 further bedrooms • Bedroom 6/dressing room • Bathroom • Shower room • Double garage • Stabling • Tractor shed • Greenhouse • Swimming pool • Tennis court • Gardens, grounds, paddock land, former sandschool and woodland • About 7.4 acres • EPC rating F Local Information renowned Opera House at Situated in an enviable rural Glyndebourne. position with delightful views, on the outskirts of Bolney. Bolney Mainline Rail Service: Haywards has a primary school, post office, Heath has direct services to service station and public houses. London Bridge/Victoria/St. Cuckfield is three miles distant Pancras International, journey and offers a good range of time from 42 minutes. boutique and independent shops. Comprehensive shopping is The A24 and A/M23 provides available at Haywards Heath 5 access to the South coast and miles, Horsham 11 miles and connections to Gatwick airport, Brighton 13 miles. the M25 and national motorway network. Sussex offers a superb range of sporting and leisure opportunities There is an excellent range of with golf at Royal Ashdown, Mid highly-regarded schools in the Sussex and Piltdown, and many area, including Warden Park other courses across the county. Secondary Academy, Cumnor There is racing at Goodwood, House, Great Walstead, Ardingly Lingfield and Pyecombe, and College, Hurstpierpoint College, sailing at Ardingly and the coast. Brighton College, Burgess Hill There are many footpaths and Schools for Girls, Handcross bridle paths across the South Park, Worth School and Christ’s Downs and surrounding Hospital. countryside, as well as riding on Ashdown Forest by permit and All distances and journey times show jumping at Hickstead. are approximate. Spa and country house hotels include Ockenden Manor, South Lodge, Alexander House and Gravetye Manor. The market town of Horsham and the City of Brighton and Hove offer theatres, cinemas, shopping and restaurants, and there is the world About this property There are six bedrooms on the Hops House is an elegant first floor, including an excellent Georgian property, dating from principal bedroom with a stylish the 1830s and believed to have en suite bathroom including a been the brewery to the freestanding roll top bath and wet- neighbouring property, which was room style shower. The formerly a public house. remaining bedrooms are served Characterised by Virginia by a bathroom and a shower creeper-clad brick, part tile hung room; bedroom six is currently elevations with sash windows, the used as a dressing room and has property has been the subject of a range of fitted wardrobes. various sympathetic additions which retain the elegant Outside architectural features of the Hops House is approached from period and include a Victorian Stairbridge Lane via electronically wing, an elegant Westbury operated double gates mounted orangery and most recently a two- on brick pillars, which open to a storey extension to create a large gravelled driveway and parking utility room and superb principal area ahead of the integral double bedroom suite over. garage. To the front of the house is an area of formal lawn, The front door opens to an bounded by a low brick wall and elegant and welcoming reception close board fencing. hall, off which lies a double reception room, currently used as A circular stone terrace lies a formal drawing room and cosy adjacent to the rear of the house, snug. Of particular note is the edged by raised beds and well well-appointed kitchen which stocked with a number shrubs forms the hub of the family home, and flowers. Beyond the raised fitted with a range of bespoke beds is an attractive water feature cabinetry by Abri Furniture and echoing the circular design of the being open to the elegant terrace, from which water is orangery, ideally set up as a channelled down towards the breakfast and family room. The house. An area of lawn extends kitchen is served by a large utility away from the property, bounded room; a study and cloakroom by mature trees and hedging. An complete the ground floor. archway leads through a mature beech hedge to a further area of Steps descend from the hall to garden and to the swimming pool. the lower ground floor, a versatile space with separate external The concrete stable yard is access with potential to use as a enclosed by post and rail fencing home-working space or create a self-contained annexe. It is and contains stabling comprising currently used as a super family five loose boxes, two store rooms and play room, and has a large and a separate tractor store with adjoining wine cellar with double doors. flagstone floor. A five bar gate opens to a former Directions sand school, which could be From Haywards Heath take the reinstated if required; a track A272 west through Ansty, after gives secondary access onto 1.3 miles turn left into Stairbridge Stairbridge Lane. Lane. Hops House is on the right, after about 0.2 of a mile. Beyond the swimming pool and stabling is a fenced tennis court Services and the post and rail fenced Oil fired central heating. Mains paddock land. water and electricity. Private drainage. The woodland, known as Beershop Wood, is classed as Outgoings Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland Mid Sussex District Council, in the Ancient Woodland 01444 458166. Inventory for West Sussex. The Council tax band H. wood is bounded by hedging and is heavily covered with bluebells, Energy Performance wood anemones, foxgloves and A copy of the full energy violets and contains coppiced performance certificate is hazel, oaks, silver birches and available on request. sweet chestnuts. Viewing In all, about 7.4 acres. Strictly by appointment with Savills on 01444 446000. If there is any point which is of particular importance to you, we invite you to discuss this with us, especially before you travel to view the property. Rohan Vines Haywards Heath 01444 446 000 Hops House, Stairbridge Lane, Bolney, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH17 5PA savills savills.co.uk [email protected] Important Notice Savills, its clients and any joint agents give notice that 1: They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2: Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. 20201113TJPS. Photographs taken November 2020. .