Bank Passage, Steyning, West Sussex

An impressive period family home offering generously proportioned accommodation arranged over three floors. The property sensitively combines modern amenities with character features, including sash windows and high ceilings. Bank Passage is a peaceful location, just off the High Street.

1 The Old Courthouse, a double fronted townhouse forming part of a building that dispensed justice until 1996, offers almost 2,500 sq ft of sympathetically updated accommodation arranged over three floors. Configured to provide an ideal family and entertaining space, the accommodation flows from a deep recessed storm porch and briefly comprises a spacious yet welcoming front aspect reception hall with tiled flooring, useful storage and a cloakroom. It leads to an elegant dual aspect sitting room with further storage and two pairs of French doors opening to the courtyard garden, and an extensive kitchen, breakfast and dining room. The kitchen/breakfast room features tiled flooring, a range of bespoke wall and base units including a breakfast bar and display cabinets with complementary work surfaces and splashbacks. It is equipped with modern integrated appliances, a walk-in pantry, and a useful adjoining fitted utility room. The dining area offers space for a table and benefits from a conservatory-style bay with large picture glazing, a striking sky lantern, and French doors opening to the courtyard garden, all of which flood the space with natural light. An original staircase with a polished wood balustrade and wrought-iron balusters rises to the first-floor landing, which features bespoke fitted shelving. This level provides access to a front-aspect principal bedroom with an en suite drench-head shower room and twin sinks, as well as two further double bedrooms, all with fitted storage, and a family bathroom featuring a freestanding rolltop bath. Separate original stairs rise from the landing to a mezzanine study with a glazed orangery-style vaulted ceiling and a teak stepladder rising to a door giving access to the roof terrace.

Having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached over a lane giving access to private parking and to a detached garage. The walled wraparound courtyard garden accessible from the sitting and dining rooms is paved for ease of maintenance with raised borders of well-stocked flowerbeds and offers a timber garden store, the whole ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining. The property also benefits from a roof terrace offering
magnificent 360° views over the town and the rolling South Downs beyond.

The property sits within the Conservation Area of Steyning, a West Sussex market town adjacent to the South Downs; amenities include a church, independent shops, a tea house, pubs, cafés and restaurants, a leisure centre, library, health centre and primary and grammar schools. Comprehensive amenities are available in Worthing, Brighton, Horsham, Haywards Heath and Lewes. The Downs Link, the South Downs National Park and Woods Mill Nature Reserve provide miles of walking, cycling and riding routes, and sporting amenities include racing at Goodwood, golf courses, polo at Cowdray Park, equestrian events at Hickstead and sailing off the south coast. Communications links are excellent: the A27 links to the A23, M23 and motorway network, and Shorehamby-Sea station (5.4 miles) provides regular mainline services to Brighton and London Victoria.