2 Sempstead Cottages , , East , TN32 5TP 2 SEMPSTEAD COTTAGES • Entrance Hall • 3 further Bedrooms • Outside Utility Room A charming, beautifully presented, attached cottage situated in a wonderful • Sitting Room • Family Bathroom • Store Room • Dining Room • Double Garage/Studio • Garden rural location with garden, detached double garage/studio and small paddock. • Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Workshop • Paddock In all about 0.7 acres • Cloakroom • Potting Shed • In all about 0.7 of an acre • Master Bedroom with • Chicken Coop Dressing Room • 2 Greenhouses AMENITIES 2 Sempstead Cottages is in a wonderful rural location at the end of an unmade track and situated 1.2 miles from the picturesque rural village of Ewhurst Green. This forms part of a beautiful stretch of countryside on the Kent/ borders, close to Castle and with access to many wonderful walks. The village has a parish church and the popular White Dog Inn. Staplecross village with a local shop and public house is about 2 miles. Robertsbridge station ( Bridge/Charing Cross) is 8.3 miles and the historic town of Battle, with its range of shops, supermarket and restaurants, is about 7 miles. is some 5 miles and Rye is about 11 miles. State and private schools within reach include Bodiam Primary School and Claremont Senior School at Bodiam; St Ronan’s and Marlborough House at Hawkhurst; Vinehall at Robertsbridge. DESCRIPTION Sempstead Cottages were originally built as farm workers cottages and Number 2 has been enlarged over the years to form a very comfortable home. The entrance hall opens into the wonderful sitting room which has been decorated in a traditional style complete with open fireplace, dado rail and double doors to the garden. The adjacent dining room has a log burner as well as lit alcoves and leads into the excellent kitchen/breakfast room, with slate flooring, 2-oven Rayburn, marble butler’s sink and space for a table and chairs at one end. There is a further door from here to the garden. From the kitchen a staircase leads up to the first floor. The master bedroom is an excellent bright room with stripped wood floorboards, windows to two sides, and double doors opening into a dressing area that could, subject to relevant consents, be formed into an en suite bathroom. There is a guest bedroom with a fire place and a family bathroom which is again a delightful room with table top hand basin, roll top bath, fireplace and distant views over the countryside. On the second floor there are two further bedrooms. The property benefits from oil-fired central heating and private drainage. OUTSIDE An unmade track leads off a narrow rural lane and provides access to Sempstead Cottages. Wrought iron gates open into the grounds of 2 Sempstead Cottages with a parking/turning area for several cars beyond the house and garage. There is a well tended garden surrounding the house, which is principally laid to lawn, and a brick pathway provides access to the front door and leads around the side of the house to a sheltered courtyard area. Here there is a utility room and a store both with brick elevations beneath a tiled roof.

Opposite the house is an excellent hedge enclosed vegetable patch with eight raised beds and adjacent to this is a fenced area currently reserved for chickens along with a handful of fruit trees. Nearby is a large underground rainwater harvesting tank.

The double garage/studio is used as an artists studio and has a wood burner as well as a workshop. Outside there is a potting shed and chicken coop. There are two greenhouses. A wooden five bar gate provides access to a small paddock which measures about 0.38 acres and is fence enclosed. In all the gardens and grounds extend to about 0.7 acres. DIRECTIONS From the Cross Inn in the centre of Staplecross proceed in an easterly direction towards on the B2165 and after 1.1 miles, after a sharp left hand bend, bear left into Sempstead Lane (signposted Lordine Lane). Follow Sempstead Lane for 0.7 miles, passing the turning to Lordine Lane on the left. After a further 0.2 miles at a right hand bend proceed straight on to a track marked with a footpath sign. Follow this track past 1 Sempstead Cottages to the wrought iron double gates which provide access to 2 Sempstead Cottages.

Additional Information: Local Authority: Council, Bexhill-on-Sea. Telephone 01424 787000. www.rother.gov.uk Services (not checked or tested): Mains electricity and water. No mains gas or connection to mains drainage. Oil fired central heating. Links: www.environment-agency.gov.uk, www.highways.gov.uk, www.caa.co.uk, www.landregistry.gov.uk Tenure: Freehold. Land Registry Title Number ESX81229 Notes: There is a right of access, used only for coppicing purposes, which runs past the front of the cottage to the woodland beyond the paddock. PRICE GUIDE REGION £525,000 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] 2 Sempstead Cottages, Ewhurst Green, Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5TP

NOTE: Batcheller Monkhouse give notice that: 1. These particulars including text, 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 opinion and should not be construed as statements of fact; 4. A detailed survey has not been carried out, nor have any services, appliances or specific fittings been tested; 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 there is reference to planning permission or potential, such information is given in 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, subject to separate negotiation.

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