Catts Hill, Mark Cross, Crowborough

Exciting Development Opportunity with Planning to Extend the Existing Dwelling* and Build a New Triple Garage with Home Office

Seven Bishops is located in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, on the south side of the B2100 Catts Hill, between Mark Cross and Rotherfield. Despite the site’s attractive rural outlook, direct rail travel to London can be found at Crowborough (2.7 miles), Wadhurst (4.8 miles), and Tunbridge Wells (6.2 miles). Furthermore, Royal Tunbridge Wells also offers a wide array of amenities and services, including several leisure facilities and a range of independent shops. In the surrounding towns there is a good mix of state and private schools, including a number of grammar schools.

The existing dwelling is set in a plot of approx. 0.644 acres and is accessed via Catts Hill. The existing house with the partially constructed extensions sits centrally on the site. We understand there is a circa 4m gradient across the site with the highest level in the eastern corner falling to the lowest point in the western corner. The gardens are laid mainly to lawn with some mature planting around and on the site.

The existing dwelling is a three-bedroom cottage, with painted brick elevations under a pitched plain concrete tiled roof. The property requires modernisation and refurbishment. At the west and north of the existing house there are partially constructed elements of the two storey extensions. Work on the garage has commenced to ground floor slab level in accordance with the approved design under planning reference WD/2015/0247/F. With alterations made under planning reference WD/2023/1081/F.

The site has planning consent for extending the existing dwelling, as well as building a triple garage with a home office above. Estimated Consented House Area Ground: 154.5m2 First: 155.9m2 Total 310.4 m2 (3341.11 ft2) Estimated Consented Garage Area Garage: 76.1m2 Frist Floor Annex: 51m2 Total=127.1 (1368.09 ft2) WD/2023/1081/F -PROPOSED TRIPLE GARAGE WITH HOME OFFICE ABOVE. WD/2015/0247/F - TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND NEW TRIPLE GARAGES TO REPLACE EXISTING PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED PLANNING CONSENT WD/2010/1900/F

* We understand from our clients that they have submitted a “Section 73 application to vary the Conditions showing the house as it now is, ie substantially removed and built back on new/existing foundations. This will mean the house is a new build rather than extension and alteration.

We are further advised “the house and garage are fully designed with detailed drawings and structural calculations.”