Kerves Lane, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13

Substantial family home with exceptional space and mature gardens

Description

A substantial detached family residence of impressive proportions, occupying a generous plot with beautifully landscaped gardens and a detached leisure suite above a large triple garage.

Constructed by Berkeley Homes, Watersfield House offers exceptionally well-balanced accommodation extending to over 4,500 sq ft, combining elegant reception space with practical family living. The property is approached via a sweeping driveway providing ample parking and leading to the attached triple garage, with a separate staircase rising to a versatile leisure room above. The welcoming reception hall forms the heart of the house and leads to a series of well-appointed reception rooms. A particularly impressive drawing room enjoys a striking bay window overlooking the gardens, while the formal dining room provides an excellent setting for entertaining. The family room and library offer additional reception space, creating flexibility for modern family life.

The spacious kitchen/breakfast room is fitted with an extensive range of cabinetry and provides ample space for informal dining. Adjoining the kitchen is a conservatory enjoying views across the gardens, together with a utility room and cloakroom.

On the first floor, the principal bedroom suite benefits from a dressing area and en suite bathroom. There are four further double bedrooms, including a guest bedroom with en suite facilities, served by a well-appointed family bathroom. The generous landing enhances the sense of space and light throughout the upper floor. The three main bedrooms have built in storage. Additionally, the en suite bathroom has been removed to bedroom three, however, as the service ducts were retained this can easily be reversed.

A notable feature of the property is the detached leisure room positioned above the triple garage, offering excellent potential as a gymnasium, games room, home office or studio, subject to individual requirements.

Outside, the property is set within mature, private gardens, predominantly laid to lawn and bordered by established trees and hedging. The extensive grounds provide a wonderful backdrop to the house and afford a high degree of privacy, while the sweeping driveway and garaging offer excellent parking provision.

Location

Watersfield House occupies a most attractive and secluded situation in what might be described as a one of the most sought after lanes in Horsham. The town offers a very good range of amenities including the usual High Street shopping names, numerous speciality shops, bars, restaurants, theatre, cinema, public park and multi-activity sport and leisure centre.

The main line station provides a fast and frequent service to Gatwick Airport, London Victoria and London Bridge as well as the south coast. Road connections are good with the main A24 providing the link between London and the coast and via the M25 to the airports and national motorway network.

The area benefits from an excellent choice of schools including Christ’s Hospital, Farlington, Pennthorpe and Cottesmore among several others.

Recreational opportunities include golf at a number of clubs within reach including Cottesmore, Mannings Heath and The West Sussex; polo at Hurtwood Park and Knepp Castle; racing at Epsom and Goodwood and sailing at Southwater Country Park. In addition the surrounding countryside offers miles of walking and riding through some of our prettiest countryside.

Square Footage: 4,058 sq ft



Additional Info

One of three unique Berkeley Homes unique properties in Kerves Lane, situated on a Private road an Electric entrance gate. The Property itself has a substantial parking area which can cater for 10 cars in addition to the garage space, with two further sets of private electric gates to the property (drive in and out). The triple Garage can accommodate five cars (two vintage cars can be parked diagonally behind the three parking bays. There is an under stairs storage cupboard for tools, plus an outside toilet and bathroom. In addition to this the Games/room/Leisure room above the garage has an additional shower and bathroom. The Garage also accommodates the central heating boilers, along with an extremely powerful Central Vacuum cleaner, which has been recently upgraded and replaced, a big asset for asthma sufferers, as there is absolutely zero dust re-circulated inside the property.

The main house is of traditional construction, recently benefitting from brand-new high end - Bereco windows and doors, ensuring the property is extremely efficient. A combination from cavity wall insulation added on construction, to the internal plastered 'dense concrete block’ walls, so with concrete block and beam floors above, they act as a temperature battery, benefiting from thermal-mass physics. Thus keeping the housing much warmer and the heating bills lower during the winter, and the reverse in the summer, so the ground floor always remains cool even at 35 degrees externally.
The Property additionally benefits from:

1/ Purified Reverse Osmosis drinking water fed to the Fridge Freezer and the Kitchen sink.
2/ FTTP (Fibre to the Property) Broadband, fibre is delivered from both OpenReach and Virgin Media and currently has an active Broadband with speeds of 1.1GB download by 110MB upload speeds.
3/ The Garden benefits from external lighting and security lighting and the House has a monitored Alarm system.
4/ The House benefits from a powerful Central Vacuum sited in the Garage, which is especially beneficial for asthma sufferers.
5/ The Garden also has a newly connected (latest standard) electric hot-tub with its own isolator.
6/ There are IRO 8 acres of fields surrounding the South side of all three Properties, protected by an agreement between Berkeley Homes and Horsham Council to provide permanent protection and retain its status as an area of outstanding beauty.