Newpound Lane, Wisborough Green, West Sussex, RH14

A rare opportunity as Champions Farm comes onto the open market for the first time in 70 years.
Champions Farm is a wonderful example of a Grade II listed Sussex farmhouse presented in excellent order. It has been well maintained by our clients during their period of ownership, including substantial refurbishment and investment with the recent addition of a Tom Howley open plan kitchen/breakfast room, and an oak orangery extension by David Salisbury with bifold doors opening onto a south facing sun terrace. The property has limestone flooring throughout the ground floor, with the kitchen and orangery also benefitting from underfloor heating, making for a wonderfully cosy heart to the house.

The property offers well-proportioned family accommodation over two floors with a well-considered through-flow of accommodation to the ground floor, and with many period features one would expect from a property of this age, including exposed timbers, a log burner in the hallway and a number of original fireplaces.

Upstairs, the property benefits from a stunning principal bedroom with en suite bathroom, together with further generous guest accommodation, all with outstanding views over the surrounding grounds.

Champions Farm occupies a peaceful, private position on the edge of Wisborough Green. This thriving Sussex village has a school, church, village store, café, three public houses, and a quintessentially charming English village cricket green all within walking distance.

The house is approached by a long tree lined drive (which is also a public bridleway) and sits centrally in its land with views over the surrounding countryside.

There are excellent communications to London and the south east via the A3 including good access to Gatwick and Heathrow. A main line rail service goes from Billingshurst to London Victoria. Both Guildford and Horsham provide a wide range of shopping facilities, with other supermarkets nearby in Billingshurst and Pulborough.

Activities in the area include boating and fishing on the river Arun, sailing on Chichester harbour, horse and car racing at Goodwood, and polo at Hurtwood and Cowdray Park. For golfing enthusiasts, the well-known West Sussex Golf Club can be found in Pulborough and there are courses at Cowdray and Goodwood a short distance from the property.

Schools in the area are Hurstpierpoint, Cranleigh, Farlington, St Catherine’s, Westbourne House, Guildford High School, Tormead, the Royal Grammar School in Guildford and Christ’s Hospital near Horsham. There are a number of school buses that stop at the village including buses to Dorset House and Hurstpierpoint College with others with stops nearby including Westbourne House.

One of the real highlights of Champions Farm is the wide array of outbuildings the property has to offer. The most notable of these is the 16th century three-bay timber framed Sussex barn. Further to this is a substantial brick building providing garaging for two cars, a workshop and a store with an internal staircase to the first floor providing additional storage.

The beautiful gardens include a large, paved terrace adjacent to the house, which overlooks the gardens and large ornamental pond (with running water feature), with a large bed to one side planted with a variety of flowering plans and shrubs. The garden includes extensive areas of lawn, paths, mature hedges and a variety of mature trees including oak, maple, conifers, beech and horse chestnut. A heated swimming pool is to one side, with paved terracing and a pool house containing recently upgraded filtration equipment and an air-source heat pump. Beyond the house is a recently upgraded astroturf tennis court, which is screened by yew hedging and with borders on either side, containing a variety of flowering shrubs.

The land is divided into four fields, all laid to pasture and all bordered by mature hedgerows and stock-proof fencing.

Wisborough Green village centre – 0.3 miles
Billingshurst (London Victoria from 64 minutes) – 3 miles
Pulborough (London Victoria from 69 minutes) – 7.5 miles
Haslemere (London Waterloo from 56 minutes) – 13 miles
Guildford (London Waterloo from 35 minutes) – 17 miles
Chichester – 20 miles
London – 45 miles

(Distances and times are approximate)