Priory Road, Forest Row, RH18

GUIDE PRICE: £1,300,000 - £1,400,000.

This delightful tile-hung Sussex home stands at the end of a private drive in the heart of the Ashdown Forest. This family home combines modern comfort and beautiful period features – all in easy reach of local shops, schools and transport links.

The property was the east wing of Hindleap Lodge, a country retreat built by Viscount Bryce in 1853. The east wing was an extension to the original house and has an overall square footage of over 2,800 square feet (264 square metres). The three wings of the mansion are tastefully divided and face in different directions ensuring privacy.

The property has wonderful light throughout, with views over the garden and surrounding woods. The interior has been substantially modernised – with a spacious well-equipped kitchen, and two tasteful modern extensions, adding bright ground-floor rooms with full height glass windows facing the rear terrace and garden. The two main bedrooms are ensuite. The bathrooms have underfloor heating. The dual heating system can be fed by either an oil or wood biomass boiler. Most of the property is double glazed and there are solar PV (electricity) and solar thermal (hot water) panels, all of which contribute to lower energy bills.

Entering the house, a bright hallway leads into a large drawing room and library with high ceiling and decorative plaster architraves, carved stone fireplace and Clearview woodburner, and extensive fitted book shelving. Off this room is a newly-built family room/study, with wooden floor and underfloor heating, one wall with full-height glass sliding glass doors facing rear terrace and gardens. There is a large modern kitchen with cream high gloss units and black granite work surfaces, providing extensive cupboards, drawers, a Kuppersbusch (Bosch) electric oven, ceramic hob and hood, with an additional Esse wood-fired range. A door leads to a store/utility room, with plumbing for a washing machine; the room also provides access to the courtyard and driveway. The kitchen is adjoined with the modern dining/breakfast room with two walls in glass overlooking the terrace and garden. The hallway also opens on to a single bedroom/ snug.

On the first floor there are five bedrooms. The two main bedrooms have ensuite toilets, one also has a shower, the other is connected to a bedroom / dressing room with extensive fitted wardrobe cupboards. The first floor also features two other bedrooms, a full bathroom and a separate shower room, and access to a large, carpeted attic room with skylight windows.

The house is approached over a private gravelled driveway with a single garage and extensive parking with EV car charger. The stunning gardens lie to the rear of the house and face south and south east and are a feature of the property: lawns, a pergola walkway covered in wisteria and trailed roses, vegetable beds, fruit trees (plum, pear, apple), pond and a woodland area with firepit. The garden also features a large timber store and a 30 square meter garden building covered in silvered wood shingles.  

Garden

Large, south-facing garden with lawns, kitchen garden, orchard, pond and woodland area. Total plot size around half an acre (tbv)