Rocks Hill, Northiam, East Sussex TN31 6JF

ACCOMMODATION Main House:

Reception hall, Drawing room, Sitting / family room, Dining room, Kitchen and breakfast room, Utility room, Cloakroom, Master bedroom with en suite shower room & two dressing rooms, Five further bedrooms, Bathroom, Shower room, Separate WC

Detached oast & barn ancillary accommodation:

Ground floor: One bedroom annexe First floor: Home office/studio & ancillary accommodation

Garden, grounds & outbuildings:

Delightful gardens. Summerhouse. Heated swimming pool. Pool house. Gazebo. Boules court. Orchard. Nuttery. Woodland & ponds. Greenhouse. Garaging with workshop.

Gardens and grounds of approaching 28.5 acres

 

LOCATION Tanhouse is set in its own grounds 2 miles to the south of the village of Northiam with steepled church, local shops, leisure facilities including bowls club, angling club, snooker club, library and Great Dixter house and gardens. There is also a doctor's surgery, vets and primary school. Further shopping facilities are available in Peasmarsh (5 miles), where there is a family run supermarket, Battle (9 miles) with an Abbey and Tenterden (10 miles) with an attractive tree lined high street, independent shops and leisure centre. The Ancient Town of Rye is about 7 miles and is renowned for its historical associations, medieval fortifications and fine period architecture. From the town there are local train services to Eastbourne and to Ashford International with high speed connections to London St Pancras in about 37 minutes and from there to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam via Eurostar. Direct main-line commuter rail services into both London Charing Cross and Cannon Street can be found at Staplehurst railway station (17 miles) taking approximately one hour, five minutes or Robertsbridge (12 miles) to London Charing Cross and London Cannon Street taking approximately 1hr, 20 minutes. The A21 provides access to Tunbridge Wells, the M25 and national motorway network, as well as Gatwick and Heathrow airports. 

DESCRIPTION Tanhouse is a sympathetically and lovingly preserved Grade II Listed T-shaped fifteenth century timber-framed house with close studded elevations, plaster infilling and gabled ends, that on the south front being jettied on curved brackets. Interior features include exposed timber framing throughout with moulded beams and posts, mullion windows with leaded light panes, brick and flagstone flooring, fine inglenook fireplaces, good ceiling height to the majority of rooms and wide oak floorboards. The immaculately presented accommodation is arranged over three levels, as shown on the floor plan. The property is documented to have belonged to the Haddock family of Rye who were devoted Methodists and John Wesley is reputed to have visited the property on several occasions. 

GROUND FLOOR An impressive oak front door opens to a reception hall with brick and flagstone flooring and a fine oak staircase rising to the first floor. There are three well-proportioned reception rooms. The south facing drawing room has lovely Jacobean panelling, chamfered ceiling beams and a fine inglenook fireplace. The dining room has windows extending the length of the room providing views of the garden and pond, together with a massive inglenook fireplace. The part vaulted, triple aspect sitting/family room, which overlooks the garden, has a wood burning stove and a door to outside.

The kitchen is fitted with a range of bespoke cabinets comprising cupboards and drawers with polished beech work surfaces, butcher's block and Delftware tiles, together with a range cooker with 5 burner LPG hob and space for a dishwasher and fridge/freezer. The adjoining triple aspect breakfast room, formerly the dairy has flagstone flooring and a vaulted ceiling with exposed beams. The utility room has a range of fitted cupboards, sink unit, plumbing for a washing machine, flagstone flooring and a door to the garden. A cloakroom completes the ground floor. 

FIRST FLOOR From the landing, an ante room leads to the master bedroom with carved fireplace, en suite shower room and two walk-in dressing rooms. There are three further bedrooms together with a family bathroom and separate WC on the first floor. The second floor provides two attic bedrooms, a sitting room and a shower room.

 

OUTSIDE Tanhouse is approached via a sweeping gated driveway which leads to a generous parking area and the double garage with adjacent workshop. A particular feature of the property are the beautifully maintained gardens and grounds which provide a wonderful setting and comprise York stone terraces, manicured lawns, burgeoning herbaceous borders, rose beds, copper beech hedgerows, feature pond with gunnera and an abundance of mature trees and shrubs including magnolia, camellias and azaleas. To one area is a Japanese garden with acers, koi carp pond, lily pond, cloud trees and a large detached oak framed summerhouse. Adjoining is an outdoor kidney shaped pool heated by an air source heat pump with a Mediterranean style paved terrace with mature wisteria, cordyline and olive trees. Behind is a boules court screened by mature hedging. There is also a superb nuttery which is planted with walnut, cobnut, wingnut and medlar trees and an orchard with varieties of apple. The mature gardens extend to a beautiful area of woodland with towering oak trees, walkways and two ponds, beyond which lie four hedge or fence enclosed fields, one of which is a wild flower meadow. From the road there is a separate vehicular access to a storage barn with two additional open bays and a pole barn. 

OAST & BARN The attractive Grade II Listed oast and barn conversion offers versatile self contained accommodation comprising a ground floor annexe with open plan sitting room and fitted kitchen/breakfast room, roundel bedroom and bathroom. External stairs lead to the first floor where there are two additional sections providing ancillary space as a home office, studio, etc.

 

SERVICES Oil central heating. Mains electricity and water. Private drainage.

 

LOCAL AUTHORITY Rother District Council. Tax Band H