Footland Farm Swailes Green, , , East , TN32 5QU • Reception Hall • 3 further Bedrooms • Attractive mature Gardens and Grounds FOOTLAND FARM • 2 Cloakrooms • Family Bathroom • Vegetable Garden with Greenhouse and • Sitting Room • Separate WC Orchard Second Floor: A gloriously located Grade II Listed farm set down a long driveway in • Dining Room • Twin roundel (dilapidated) • Study • Bedroom 5 • 5 large modern portal framed Farm the centre of the holding within about 130 acres in this idyllic fold of • Inner Hall Outside: Buildings Wealden countryside with an impressive range of modern and period • Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Garage/Log Store • Selection of brick period Outbuildings farm buildings. First Floor: • External Summer House/Dining • Grassland amounting to about 100 acres • Master Bedroom with en Room • Woodland suite Shower Room • In all about 130 acres AMENITIES Footland Farm is located down a long driveway of about 750 yards in length, surrounded by its own land and unspoilt Sussex countryside. The hamlet at is about 0.3 of a mile where there is a popular public house. Staplecross is some 1.2 miles to the north east with a village shop/post office, public house, village hall, and a good range of sports and recreational facilities. The larger village of Robertsbridge, with its mainline station ( Cannon Street/Charing Cross) is about 3.5 miles whilst the historic town of Battle with its excellent range of shops, restaurants, public houses and other amenities is 4.5 miles. The coastal town of with its charming Old Town and broad range of amenities is 9 miles whilst the popular towns of Rye and are about 10 and 14 miles respectively. Tunbridge Wells is some 20 miles. The A21 is about 2.5 miles distant and this links onto the M25 and motorway network. Private and state schools within the area include Staplecross primary school; Vinehall and Robertsbridge Community College at Robertsbridge; Claremont preparatory school near Hastings and senior school at ; Battle Abbey and Claverham Community College at Battle. DESCRIPTION Footland Farm is a beautifully appointed Grade II Listed farmhouse privately nestled within its own grounds with far reaching southerly views. The elevations are of red brick with grey headers, tile hung upper elevations beneath a hipped tiled roof with casement windows. The property has been a much loved family home, being in the same ownership since 1971. An oak front door leads into a generous reception hall with good ceiling heights and exposed oak timbering. There is an inner cloaks lobby and further door to cloakroom with WC. The sitting room has an inglenook fireplace with oak bressumer beam, brick hearth and fire canopy, and a doorway leads to the original front door and into the dining room. The dining room also has an inglenook fireplace which is currently sealed. The study is at the southern end of the house and is fitted with a range of bookshelves, and has lovely views over the garden and courtyard. The kitchen/ breakfast room has a twin bowl stainless steel sink unit which is inset into the work surfaces with cupboards and drawers beneath, a 5-ring halogen hob, and double oven with grill. Further work surface incorporating marble block and there is another stainless steel sink unit inset to work surfaces with cupboards below. Lovely views over the gardens and countryside beyond. An oak staircase leads to the first floor landing where the master bedroom has a brick fireplace with oak bressumer beam and an en suite shower room and door to large walk-in eaves storage cupboard. There are three further bedrooms, two of which are inter-connecting, a family bathroom and a separate WC. Staircase leads to the fifth bedroom on the second floor and there is a door giving access to extensive attic storage. OUTSIDE Footland Farm is approached from the road along a privately owned driveway of approximately 750 yards in length. The road runs to the south with the farm buildings and farm house situated in the centre of the holding. The driveway culminates in a brick pavoir parking area for a number of cars. To the side of the house is an external log store of brick and tile construction and external summerhouse/dining room on a brick plinth with leaded light glazing on three sides with brick end elevation beneath a tiled roof. The gardens are principally laid to lawn with a number of mature trees and shrubs. To the south is a wall enclosed courtyard with raised flower border and an ornamental pond. There is a vegetable garden with a glasshouse, to the side of which is a small orchard. There is a sheltered lower area of garden with a further ornamental pond, fruit bushes, meadow grassland and rhododendrons, which borders a stream. OUTBUILDINGS The farm has been used as a beef unit and there is an impressive selection of modern farm buildings extending to about 25,000 sq ft, which includes: • 5-bay portal steel framed barn with metal roof cladding and space boarded side elevations. • Adjacent is a concrete portal framed barn with breeze block walls, fibre- cement sheeting and sliding metal doors. • 5-bay cattle shed with central feeding barriers and pens and metal sheet cladding to the roof, concrete feeding passage and central feed run. • 7-bay open sided cattle shed with concrete feeding stands and internal divisions, steel portal framed with metal sheeting clad roof, small feed hopper to the exterior. • 7-bay concrete portal framed open sided hay barn with fibre cement sheeted roof and concrete floor. There are concrete roadways linking these barns with concrete apron surrounding the 7-bay barn. There is a selection of older farm buildings which include: • A twin roundel oast with barn, which is currently in a dilapidated condition; NB: Planning consent was obtained in 1990, application number RR/90/0138/P, for the conversion of the oast into a 4-bedroom residential dwelling. • A workshop/store with lightweight steel frame under a fibre cement roof, concrete flooring and part glazed side elevations. • A traditional store of part timber and breeze block construction beneath a clay tiled roof. • A further traditional store with brick elevations under a slate roof and another brick and tile outbuilding. LAND The land is subdivided into 9 fields with boundaries of some mixed hedgerows and stock fencing, with water troughs to all enclosures. The land appears to be in good heart. The pasture extends to approximately 100 acres. In addition, there is a number of typical small woodland shaws and ghylls and the farm includes one large area of formerly Forestry Commission woodland, known as Kemps Wood, which is situated to the east of the farm house. Kemps Wood extends to about 18.5 acres and is broadly split into two halves, with the eastern side comprising a large block of mature Scots pine and the western section being a block of younger naturally regenerated mixed broadleaf species. The land extends in total to about 130 acres.

BASIC PAYMENT SCHEME Footland Farm is registered with the RPA, please enquire from the agents as to the availability of entitlements.

RIGHTS OF WAY There are footpaths which cross the land. DIRECTIONS From The White Hart public house in the centre of Cripps Corner proceed in a westerly direction on the B2089. On entering Swailes Green, pass Compasses Lane on the left, and the driveway to Footland Farm will be found immediately after the Oak Furniture Showroom on the left. Additional Information: Local Authority: Council, Bexhill-on-Sea. Telephone 01424 787000. www.rother.gov.uk Services: Mains electricity and water (not checked or tested), private drainage. 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 ESX212268. Partly unregistered

GUIDE PRICE £1,750,000 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]

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