1 Walstead Manor Cottages

Walstead, Lindfield,

Bedales Hill, Walstead, Lindfield, West Sussex, RH16 2QG

A delightful semi-detached cottage providing well laid out family accommodation and lapsed planning permission for a large extension. The property currently comprises a kitchen / breakfast room, living room and music / play room downstairs, with an en-suite master bedroom, two further bedrooms and family bathroom upstairs. The flexible layout offers potential for the music room to be either a fourth downstairs bedroom or home study. Outside there is a large parking area and attractive lawned gardens. Adjacent to the rear entrance, and covered porch and boot room, there is a single storey brick outbuilding incorporating a store room, yard area and outside WC. This has lapsed planning permission to be linked to the house offering potential for a sizeable extension. The cottage is located in a semi-rural position on the outskirts of the sought after village of Lindfield with excellent commuter links and near to the well respected Great Walstead Prep School.

PRICE £475,000 Freehold, Subject to Contract

• . Semi Detached Cottage • Living Room with Log Burning Stove • Master Bedroom with En-Suite

• Lovely Family Home • Large Hallway • Two Further Bedrooms

• Attractive Gardens • Covered Porch / Boot Room • Family Bathroom

• Kitchen / Breakfast Room with Log Burning • Music / Play Room or potential Study / • Store, Yard and WC with lapsed PP for Stove Fourth Bedroom extension to main house

Lindfield 1 mile * 2 ½ miles * Train Haywards Heath – Bridge 42 mins * Gatwick Airport 15 ½ miles

SITUATION

The property is situated in the hamlet of Walstead, just outside the highly sought after village of Lindfield. A pretty and bustling village and winner of the Best Kept Village Award on numerous occasions, Lindfield’s ancient high street offers a variety of boutique shops, supermarket, Post Office and highly regarded pubs and restaurants. There is also a village pond and large recreation ground hosting fairs, festivals and sports events, including which has been played on the common since 1747. The larger town of Haywards Heath is approximately 2 ½ miles away and provides extensive shopping and recreational facilities. The main line train station offers a regular fast service into London Bridge in just 42 minutes and London Victoria in 44 minutes. The property has excellent road links onto the A272, A23 and A22 in turn giving access to the M25 and the main motorway network. There are a number of excellent schools in the area including Lindfield Primary School, , Cumnor House, College, Warden Park, Worth Abbey and Hurst. For leisure pursuits in the local area there is golf at the nearby, well subscribed Haywards Heath Golf Club and a wide range of facilities at The Dolphin Leisure Centre in Haywards Heath. The location also offers excellent walking and cycling around the surrounding beautiful Sussex countryside with the Bluebell Railway and Ashdown Forest close by.

ACCOMMODATION The cottage is accessed via double wooden gates leading to a parking area for several vehicles. The current owners use the rear entrance where there is a useful covered porch area with room for coats and boots. This leads into a spacious entrance hall which in turn leads to the downstairs rooms. The large kitchen / breakfast room is fitted with a range of units, dishwasher, range cooker and an area for a dining table with an open fireplace and log burning stove. The sitting room is bright and airy and has an open fireplace with wood burning stove and double patio doors leading to the garden. A second reception room, currently a music / play room could also be used as an office or fourth, downstairs bedroom. Upstairs the master bedroom has double doors leading to a delightful balcony overlooking the rear of the property and an en-suite shower room. There are also two further bedrooms and a family bathroom.

OUTSIDE The gardens are mainly laid to lawn with mature shrubs and trees offering screening and privacy. To the right of the rear entrance to the cottage there is a small enclosed concrete yard with a brick built, single storey outbuilding, housing a store room and WC. In 2002 planning was granted for extension and alterations to the existing two storey dwelling (02/02217/FUL), part of which included linking and converting the outbuilding. Please ask the agent for more details.

SERVICES Mains electricity | Mains water | Mains drainage | Mains Gas | Night Storage Heating.

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PLEASE NOTE: These particulars have been prepared in good faith to give a fair overall view of the property. We have not carried out a detailed survey, nor tested the appliances or specific fittings. Photographs show only specific parts of the property and it should not be assumed that any items or contents etc shown in such photographs are included in the sale. All areas, measurements and distances are given as a guide only and are not precise and all descriptions of the property are subjective. Formal notice is also given that all fixtures, fittings, carpeting, curtains/blinds and kitchen equipment whether fitted or not are deemed removable by the Vendor unless specifically itemized within these particulars.