High Street, Bexhill-on-Sea

**Guide Price £450,000 - £500,000** A detached Grade II Listed period house with an interesting history, located in the popular Old Town of Bexhill, with its period properties and St Peter’s Church, yet only 0.5 of a mile from the town centre with excellent shops, cafes, the De La Warr Pavillion, mainline station and seafront.

The Little Beehive is a Grade II Listed detached period house with an interesting history, having formerly been a chemist, then latterly a sweetshop. The property was converted into a residence in 1984 and now provides charming period accommodation within walking distance of the amenities of Bexhill’s Old Town.
The elevations are part flint, brick and weatherboard beneath a tiled roof and there is gas-fired central heating. There are attractive stripped pine doors throughout the ground floor with period brass furniture, and linseed oil varnished floorboards on the first and second floors.
The main features of the property include:
• Blue painted front door to the entrance hall with quarry tiled floor and storage cupboard for coats, boots, etc. Cloakroom with WC and wash basin.
• The sitting room has oak floorboards, a large inglenook fireplace with wood burning stove, a range of storage shelves, and double sliding doors to the sunny wall-enclosed garden.
• From the hall a step leads down to the kitchen with tiled floor, range of fitted base and wall cupboards, drawer unit, inset sink with mixer tap and single drainer, four-ring gas hob with oven beneath and extractor hood above, space for fridge.
• Archway leading to the dining room with herringbone wood block floor, tiled hearth and fireplace, shallow bay window to the front. Along one wall is a fully built-in pine dresser unit with drawers, shelves and cupboards.
• The current arrangement includes a utility room/office at the rear of the property with a quarry tiled floor, recess with plumbing for washing machine and a door to the outside.
• The first floor landing has stripped pine balustrade and a large storage cupboard under the second floor stairs.
• Bedroom 1 to the front has a large sash window, built-in storage cupboard to one side of the chimney breast with a feature old brick fireplace and brick hearth.
• Bedroom 2, at the rear, has a pretty cast iron period fireplace with a cupboard to one side housing the gas-fired Worcester combination boiler. A large sash window overlooks the rear garden and period property rooftops to Bexhill Old Town church beyond. Walk-in storage cupboard with sash window.
• The bathroom has an attractive roll top bath with claw and ball feet, mixer taps and shower attachment, wash basin inset into vanity unit, WC and heated towel rail.
• Stairs lead to the second floor where the two attic bedrooms have sloping ceilings and double aspects, one overlooking other attractive period properties and the other with views to the church.


Outside
Attractive and very sunny rear courtyard with brick and flint pebbled walls to one side. There is a selection of roses, an apple tree and a plum tree.
Side gate leading to the parking space with a shared access and right of way from the High Street. Lean-to woodshed.