The Priest House
The Priest House Church Lane, Hellingly, East Sussex, BN27 4HA Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor Outside The Priest House • Entrance Hall • Striking Principal Bedroom • Bedroom 5 • Attractive courtyard entrance • Drawing Room with with en suite Shower • Large en suite Bathroom • Attached double tandem An extremely attractive detached Grade II Listed period inglenook style fireplace Room • Loft Store Room Carport with additional off- house, originally dating from mediaeval times. The house • Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Two further Double street parking occupies a prominent position in an idyllic village setting • Dining Room Bedrooms • Pretty landscaped Garden adjacent to the parish church of St Peter & St Paul • Boot Room/Cloak Room • Bedroom 4/Study • Family Bathroom
Description The Priest House is an extremely attractive detached village house, which dates originally from mediaeval times and offers great character, with much fine exposed timber. The house is of part brick and tile hung beneath a tiled roof, with mainly leaded-light windows. The main features of the property include: • Entrance hall with Cotswold stone flooring and some exposed beams. Timber panelled door to the drawing room, an extremely spacious and attractive room with oak flooring, exposed beams and an inglenook-style brick fireplace with stainless steel hood. A very bright triple aspect room. Door to an ante-room which in turn leads to the dining room and serves as a very useful storage space. • The kitchen/breakfast room comprises an extensive range of wooden wall and base units with slate flooring and co-ordinating worktops. There is a Britannia 5-ring gas hob with overhead extractor, stainless steel sink unit with drainer, plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer. Neff double oven and a built- in Siemens dishwasher. Exposed beams to the ceiling, bi-folding doors lead out to a raised terrace overlooking and with steps down to the main garden. • Door to dining room. Another attractive room with Travertine flooring, small window seat, exposed beams and a brick surrounded hearth opening. • Boot room/cloakroom – an extremely useful space serving as both cloakroom and boot room with built-in storage, butler’s sink and WC, door to the rear garden. • First floor: the principal bedroom features high ceilings with exposed beams, two sets of leaded light windows fill this room with natural light. There is an opening to an en suite shower room with glazed and stainless steel shower cubicle, WC and pedestal wash hand basin, mirrored wall. • Bedroom 2 is currently used as a dressing room and features a full wall of mirror-fronted wardrobes, fitted drawers and dressing table, brick chimney breast with bressummer beam and brick hearth. • Bedroom 3 is another bright, double aspect room with some exposed beams, brick fireplace and walk-in wardrobe. Bedroom 4 is currently used as a study, and again features exposed beams and leaded light windows. • The family bathroom has a panelled bath with overhead shower attachment, WC, bidet and pedestal wash hand basin. Heated towel rail, beams to the ceiling. • An alternating step staircase leads to the second floor and a lovely, vaulted guest bedroom with sky lights and a plethora of attractive exposed beams. Solid timber door to the en suite shower room with glazed shower cubicle, WC and wash hand basin, vaulted ceiling with exposed beams. A raised door leads to a very useful loft store room, also housing the water tank.
Outside The house is approached via an attractive raised ‘courtyard’ entrance. The rear garden features an area of hard-standing, brick paved driveway with electrically operated gates, in addition to a double tandem detached car-port. The pretty garden is mainly laid to lawn, with mature well-stocked borders, with a raised terrace, suitable for al fresco dining, adjacent to the dining area of the kitchen.
Directions On arriving at the centre of Hellingly village, The Priest House will be found on the corner of Church Lane and Church Road, immediately to the south of the church itself.
Amenities Local: Hellingly is a charming rural village with its church, recreation ground and community hall sporting a range of local groups and events. Towns: For more comprehensive amenities and shops, the market towns of Hailsham, with its leisure centre and several supermarkets including a Waitrose, and Heathfield are about 2.2 and 5.8 miles respectively. Tunbridge Wells is about 20 miles and has a wide range of shopping and leisure facilities. The seaside town of Eastbourne is about 12 miles. Transport: Berwick and Polegate stations are both some 5.5 miles and have services to Eastbourne, Lewes and London Victoria. Schools: Hellingly Primary School; Herstmonceux Primary School; Hailsham Community College; Eastbourne College; Bede’s at Upper Dicker; St Andrew’s at Eastbourne; Skippers Hill and Mayfield School at Mayfield. Leisure: Herstmonceux Castle and Observatory; the Cuckoo Trail for walking and cycling; Wellshurst Golf & Country Club; Bewl Water for sailing, fishing, walking and riding; Bateman’s, Scotney Castle, Sheffield Park and the coast at Birling Gap (National Trust). Theatres at Eastbourne and Tunbridge Wells. Additional Information Local Authority: Wealden District Council. Tel: 01892 602010 Services (not checked or tested): Mains water, electricity, gas and drainage connected. Links: www.environment-agency.gov.uk, www.highways.gov.uk, www.caa.co.uk, www.landregistry.gov.uk Tenure: Freehold. Land Registry Title Number ESX148392
Guide Price £595,000 - £625,000
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NOTE: Batcheller Monkhouse gives notice that: 1. These particulars including text, photographs The Priest House, Church Lane, Hellingly, Hailsham, BN27 4HA and any plans are for the guidance of Approximate Area = 2517 sq ft / 234 sq m (excludes carport) prospective purchasers only and should not be Limited Use Area(s) = 430 sq ft / 40 sq m relied upon as statements of fact; Total = 2947 sq ft / 274 sq m For identification only - Not to scale 2. The particulars do not constitute any part of a Contract; Carport 16'6 (5.03) Denotes restricted x 9' (2.74) 3. Any description provided herein represents a head height subjective opinion and should not be construed as statements of fact; Bedroom 4 12'3 (3.73) max x 9'4 (2.84) max 4. A detailed survey has not been carried out, nor have any services, appliances or specific fittings been tested; Bedroom 3 Bedroom 5 Kitchen/ 5. All measurements and distances are Dining Room 14'4 (4.37) max 27'7 (8.41) max 16'2 (4.93) max Breakfast Room x 12'2 (3.71) max x 17'5 (5.31) max 18'1 (5.77) max approximate; x 11'3 (3.43) max x 13'1 (3.99) max
6. We strongly advise that a prospective Down purchaser should contact the agent to Up check any information which is of particular importance, particularly for anyone who will be Up Down travelling some distance to view the property; Cloakroom/ Entrance Boot Room Hall Eaves Eaves 7. Where there is reference to planning Bedroom 2 permission or potential, such information is 12'5 (3.78) x 11'4 (3.45) given in good faith. Purchasers should make their own enquiries of the relevant authority;
8. Any fixtures & fittings not mentioned in the Drawing Room sales particulars are excluded from the sale, 27'1 (8.26) max Bedroom 1 but various items may be available, subject to x 20'4 (6.20) max 16'1 (4.90) separate negotiation. x 11'1 (3.38)
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