HANLYESTONEHOUSE HOUSE HIGHCUCKFIELD HURSTWOOD • WEST • EAST SUSSEX SUSSEX STONEHOUSE ROCKS LANE • HIGH HURSTWOOD • EAST SUSSEX • TN22 4BN

A handsome Grade II listed Sussex style country house in a beautiful rural location, with planning permission to extend and improve

STONEHOUSE Reception hall, drawing room, dining room, sitting room, conservatory, kitchen/breakfast room, office, utility room, boot room, larder, 2 cloakrooms Master bedroom with dressing room and en suite bathroom, 4 further bedrooms, 6th bedroom/playroom, 3 bathrooms ATTACHED COTTAGE Hall, sitting room, kitchen, bedroom and shower room Workshop/store room and boiler room GARDENS, OUTBUILDINGS & EQUESTRIAN FACILITIES Gardens, all weather court, greenhouse and summerhouse Open barn and tractor store, five box stable block with tack room, floodlit manège Paddocks, woodland and pond.

About 21 acres

Savills Haywards Heath 37-39 Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath, RH16 3BN

Sophie Wysock-Wright +44 (0) 1444 446 000 [email protected] savills.co.uk

Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text. Situation Stonehouse is located at the end of a long privately owned Schools: There are a number of highly regarded schools driveway in the beautiful Sussex countryside, in an area in the area including Skippers Hill Preparatory School, designated as the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Cumnor House, , Brambletye Beauty. Sussex offers many and varied leisure pursuits School College and Holmewood House including wonderful walking and permit riding opportunities Preparatory School. Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge in the Ashdown Forest, racing at Lingfield Park, Plumpton have grammar schools. and Brighton, golf at a number of local courses and sailing at Bewl Water. High Hurstwood is a small rural hamlet located Mainline rail services: Buxted station 2.7 miles: between the towns of Crowborough and Uckfield. It has its Bridge, journey time 1 hour 16 minutes. own primary school, church and a popular country pub, Tunbridge Wells 12.5 miles: Cannon Street/Charing Cross The Hurstwood, which is a half mile walk from Stonehouse from 55 minutes. Haywards Heath 13.5 miles: London along the footpath. Victoria/ London Bridge from 44 minutes. Uckfield (3.4 miles) and Crowborough (5.6 miles have a Communications: The A26, A22 and A272 are easily very good range of shops and supermarkets. Comprehensive accessible from the property, and they in turn connect to shopping facilities are available at Tunbridge Wells (12.5 miles). the national motorway network. Gatwick Airport 23 miles. Stonehouse Stonehouse is a handsome Grade II listed country residence occupying a wonderful rural position at the end of a long privately owned driveway. The property is believed to date from the 1500s and has been extended over the years to create a delightful and spacious family home. Whilst requiring some updating, Stonehouse offers an excellent opportunity and has full planning permission and Listed Buildings Consent for significant alterations and improvements to the existing layout, including the creation of a superb contemporary open plan kitchen/breakfast/ family room. Full plans can be seen on the Wealden Council planning portal ref: WD/2015/2064/F.

Stonehouse is arranged over three floors and has generously proportioned rooms, good ceiling heights and classic period features including exposed beams, lead light windows, drop latch doors and open fireplaces, with inglenooks in the drawing and dining rooms. The principal reception rooms and bedrooms are situated on the southern elevation and all have delightful views across the gardens to the fields beyond. The farmhouse kitchen has a four oven AGA, granite, tiled and Corian worktops and a quarry tiled floor, and opens to a substantial conservatory. There is a good range of storage and practical space with the utility room, office/storage room, larder and bootroom forming part of the single storey extension beyond the kitchen. On the first floor is the master bedroom with dressing conservatory open out onto a broad York stone terrace and en suite bathroom. A long landing leads to the guest to the rear of the house, which has an outlook across the bedroom with en suite bathroom, and two further bedrooms gently sloping lawned garden and fields beyond. There is served by a Jack and Jill bathroom. A further bedroom and an attractive ornamental pond at the bottom of the garden a bathroom requiring renovation are situated on the second and through a clipped yew hedge is the refurbished tennis floor, together with a large attic room that could be used as court, beyond which is a small orchard. The cottage also has a playroom. its own designated garden with a door leading out from the sitting room. There is also a summerhouse and greenhouse Attached to the house, the former stables have been in the grounds. converted into a one bedroom self-contained cottage, which is in need of refurbishment, together with a workshop and The driveway continues past the house through a pair of boiler/tack room. wrought iron gates, and leads past the attached cottage to the chicken coop, five bay agricultural storage building and The south facing gardens are a particularly attractive feature on down to the stable yard (comprising five boxes and a Stores of the property. French doors from the reception hall and tack/feed room) and floodlit manège. Directions (TN22 4BN) From Haywards Heath take the A272 east; at Batts Bridge Roundabout take the third exit onto the A22 south. At the next roundabout take the first exit onto the A26, and continue on the A26 through Five Ash Down. Turn right into Rocks Lane, signposted High Hurstwood. The stone pillared entrance to Stonehouse will be found after a short distance (0.2 of a mile) on the left hand side. Continue past Stonehouse Cottage up to the electric iron gates leading to the main house.

From the M25, take the A22 south through East Grinstead until it joins the A26 (signposted Tunbridge Wells). Continue on the A26 through Five Ash Down. Turn right into Rocks Lane, signposted High Hurstwood. The stone pillared entrance to Stonehouse will be found after a short distance (0.2 of a mile) on the left hand side. Continue past Stonehouse Cottage up to the electric iron gates leading to the main house.

Note: “This plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey map with the sanction of the control of H.M. Stationary office. This plan is for convenience of purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. Licence Number. No. ES100017767.”

Outgoings Important Notice Wealden District Council, 01892 653311. Council tax band H. Savills and their clients give notice that: 1. They have no authority to make or give any representations or Services warranties in relation to the property. These particulars do not Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. Plotted Scale - 1:3151 Oil-fired central heating; mains electricity and water; form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as private drainage. statements or representations of fact. Agent’s Note Planning Permission 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The Tenure text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not Stonehouse Cottage has Right of Way over the first part of Planning permission and Listed Buildings Consent was Freehold necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the the drive. granted on 16 December 2015 for the ‘Removal of existing property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other conservatory and replace with single storey extension. Viewing consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or There is a public footpath running along the drive from Rocks Removal of modern flat roof extension. Formation of enclosed facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or Strictly by appointment with Savills on 01444 446000. Lane, to the entrance gates and along the north west/north parking courtyard and other internal and external alterations.’ otherwise. east boundary of the land. If there is any point which is of particular importance to you, Brochure prepared: February 2017 Wealden District Council, ref: WD/2015/2064/F & we invite you to discuss this with us, especially before you Photographs taken: September 2016 & February 2017 WD/2015/2065/LB travel to view the property.. TP/71022020/001