High Street, Lewes, East Sussex

Dating in part from the early 18th century and later used as St Michael’s Rectory, 121 High Street is a handsome double-fronted family home. It offers more than 2,400 sq ft of light-filled flexible accommodation arranged over three floors. While in need of modernisation, the property offers the prospective purchaser the opportunity to create an elegant and practical family home, sensitively incorporating period features including sash and casement glazing, generously-proportioned rooms, high ceilings, picture rails and some original fireplaces. Featuring parquet flooring throughout, the ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming part double-height reception hall with useful storage and a galleried landing over. It briefly comprises a 25ft dual aspect sitting room with a large rear aspect bay, an exposed brick open fireplace and a service hatch to the kitchen, together with a generous front aspect family room. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a rear aspect kitchen with a range of wall and base units, a sink and an Aga. It opens into a rear hall with a useful en suite cloakroom and a door to the rear garden.
Stairs rise from the reception hall to a generous first floor galleried landing with further useful storage. It gives access to a front aspect L-shaped principal bedroom with a feature cast iron open fireplace and fitted storage, a double bedroom with rear aspect bow window and a further dual aspect double bedroom with a large rear aspect bay, exposed wooden flooring and a covered feature fireplace, all three rooms benefitting from useful sinks. A family bathroom completes the first floor accommodation.
A separate staircase rises to the vaulted second floor which features some exposed beams and houses the property’s three remaining double bedrooms, together with a useful WC.

Having attractive mathematical tiling to the front elevation, the property is approached direct from the pavement through a panelled front door with a Doric pilaster surround topped by a triangular pediment. It benefits from resident parking permits and on-street parking. The enclosed walled garden to the rear, also in need of some cosmetic maintenance, features block-paved and naturally-planted areas screened by mature shrubs and trees and provides a garden store and a covered seating area, offering the prospective purchaser the opportunity to create an ideal space for entertaining and al fresco dining.

The vibrant and historic county town of Lewes forms part of the South Downs National Park and provides an excellent range of individual shops, supermarkets including Waitrose, cafés, restaurants, pubs and recreational facilities including a cinema and racecourse. More comprehensive amenities are available in Haywards Heath and in the coastal business and entertainment city of Brighton. Sporting and recreational facilities in the area include numerous golf courses, show jumping at Hickstead, further horseracing at Brighton and Goodwood, sailing at Brighton and Chichester and opera at Glyndebourne.
Communications links are excellent: the A27 gives access to the A23/M23 and motorway network, London Gatwick Airport and central London, and Lewes station (0.5 mile) offers regular services to central London.
The area offers a good range of state primary and secondary schooling including Barcombe CofE Primary School (rated Outstanding by Ofsted) together with independent schools including Lewes Old Grammar, Northease Manor, Oxford International College and Roedean.