Green Lane, Churt, Farnham, GU10

The barn was originally part of the nearby Butts Farm,at one time part of the considerable Churt Estate of Lord Ashcombe. The sympathetic and careful rebuilding in 1995 with attention to detail retained the original character, massive oak frames, trusses and joinery detail with fittings, carpenter’s marks and graffiti. The complimentary use of oak and the creation of the dramatic galleried rooms within the central former floor to ceiling wagon bays are features. The elevations are of mellow oak cladding with stone and brick, double glazing in hardwood frames under a steeply pitched tiled roof. The accommodation is comfortably appointed and offers much flexibility of use with bedrooms on ground and first floors and rooms well suited in their character and location to studios or home based offices. A most fascinating ancient house with a lovely, mellow period ambience.

Outside

A curving gravelled drive between lawns edged with hedges and trees leads to a sweep to the front of the house. Framed by the barn on the west side is a paved terrace with an adjoining ‘secret garden’ providing a
restful outlook from the main rooms, with a paved and stone walled courtyard garden arranged around intersecting paved and gravelled paths with blended mixed varieties of colourful flowering shrubs, a pool, feature trees and an arbor. All is arranged to create hidden and shaded sitting areas. In one corner are former stone and tiled piggeries now garden stores. A breakfast terrace adjoins the kitchen on the east side.Off the drive is a 3 bay open fronted barn providing garaging and storage. In all about 0.475 of an acre of mature and private gardens.

Situation

The countryside around the village of Churt is a most attractive, scattered rural community on the Surrey/Hampshire border, renowned for its National Trust land and designated as an Area of Great Landscape Value (AGLV) and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) within the Green Belt. Butts Barn lies on the southern edge of the village within 0.35 miles of Churt village centre, a popular, thriving village with a sense of community and a village green with the church, infant and nursery schools, inns, village shop with post office, restaurant, garage, recreation field with pavillion for cricket and football clubs, tennis club and a range of village societies and organisations. Churt adjoins Frensham Common and Ponds providing excellent walking and riding country and a sailing club. A bus service connects the old country towns of Farnham and Haslemere with regular trains to Guildford and London Waterloo in under an hour. Access to Heathrow and Gatwick airports is via the A3/M25. Golf courses
including Hankley Common and Hindhead are closeby and Chichester Harbour is about 30 miles.