Rackham, Nr. Pulborough

The Mill House is a handsome Victorian farmhouse dating around the mid 1800's formerly owned by the Parham Estate and enjoying an enviable rural location in the heart of the South Downs National Park with stunning panoramic views to the park including the rolling South Downs, lower lying Amberley Wild Brooks and to the North to Rackham Common. Approached by its own private entrance drive the farm extends overall to in excess of 15 acres and includes a good size garden surrounding the farmhouse together with adjacent adaptable outbuildings and then areas of pasture land and woodland.

The house affords comfortable family accommodation spread over three floors and which is ready for an incoming purchaser’s own personalisation and modernisation after being in the current vendors’ ownership for the last 42 years. There are good ceiling heights to the ground and first floors and large asymmetrical sash windows to the handsome principal elevation. From the entrance porch and hall, there are two reception rooms, a conservatory/garden room, family kitchen/breakfast room with range of fitted units, utility room, cloakroom, rear porch and cellar accessed from outside. Over the first and second floors are five bedrooms and three bath/shower rooms including one en-suite.

There is a useful range of outbuildings including three stables, workshop/storage building, 3-bay open tractor barn/garaging and then a good size adjacent barn. To the West of the house there is the historic and charming, disused, Rackham Mill building.

The pasture land includes paddocks either side of the entrance drive plus field shelter. The lower lying water meadows offer seasonal grazing or fodder production opportunities as well as being a haven for visiting wild and birdlife and with pretty mixed broadleaf and bluebell copse. An attractive wildlife pond to one end is host to an abundance of visiting wildfowl as well as wildlife crossing the wide expanse of the Amberley Wild Brooks. Overall, the beautifully positioned property with its handsome house and good range of outbuildings offers a wonderful and totally unspoilt rural spot being a dream for bird and wildlife enthusiasts as well as those thriving on country living including with a good walk to the village pub.