Brewhurst Lane, Loxwood, Billingshurst, West Sussex RH14

Mill Cottage was built, we understand, in the 1600s to provide accommodation for the miller and his assistant. Purchased by our clients in 2014, Mill Cottage has been lovingly restored and enhanced into a thoughtfully re-designed family home with creative storage throughout. Several period outbuildings have been incorporated into the main cottage, with clever and considered use of both modern and period materials. The property now comprises several generous beamed reception rooms together with a stunning kitchen/breakfast/ family room benefitting from underfloor heating and with a large kitchen island to its heart featuring a beautiful marble surface. This space also benefits, on two sides, from bifold doors leading directly out on the sun terraces and gardens beyond.

The drawing and dining rooms are formed from the heart of the old cottages and feature exposed beams to the ceilings and walls, with the old chimney breast in the centre and a wood burning stove in the hearth of each room, one being the original inglenook.

Another highlight of the property is the period principal bedroom suite. Comprising of a dressing room, en suite bathroom and bedroom, beautifully conceived by our clients and perfectly executed. This space is an owners’ suite befitting the mature country house that Mill Cottage now is.

The former grain store/’Little Granary’ has been converted to a substantial vaulted study with fitted bookcases, wood burning stove and French doors opening onto the gardens. This leads into a generous games room with fitted storage, underfloor heating, kitchen bar area and space for pool table, seating and home gym and its own cloakroom. This room also benefits from French doors opening onto the gardens.

Mill Cottage Annexe: A useful addition to the property and formed from an old farm building is the annexe. Comprising a large open plan space housing a sitting room and kitchen, beyond which are the bedroom and bathroom. A wonderful cottage in its own right, the property with separate gated driveway, serves as excellent separate space for long-term visiting guests. The current owners host self-catering holiday guests in this annexe.

Outside, Mill Cottage is entered off a private lane through timber electric gates, leading to a gravelled driveway and parking area around which are the double garage and pole barn. Adjacent to the garaging is a fully insulated and heated room designed as an additional home office and currently used as a warm store for sports equipment.

The grounds surrounding the house are mainly laid to lawn with established shrub borders and have been thoughtfully landscaped with a number of paths, connecting the component parts of the property together through the gardens. There is a well laid out, gated, productive garden including raised beds, greenhouse and soft fruit cage. To the lane frontage there is a traditional cottage garden of roses and lavender bushes.

To the west of the property lie the paddocks, providing grazing and incorporating the stables. Within the paddocks is a fenced copse including a timber and clay tiled hut and fire pit, raised deck platform, composting area and sizable chicken run.

Mill Cottage is located on the Brewhurst Estate in the village of Loxwood in prime West Sussex. The Estate is known to have been in existence since the early 1500s and the property itself is accessed via Brewhurst Lane which, after a short distance from the main road of Vicarage Hill, becomes a private lane serving a handful of dwellings, some listed, in a quiet, unspoilt setting overlooking the mill stream.

The property is approximately 0.5 miles from the village centre, with village store catering for day-to-day needs and award winning butcher, game dealer and delicatessen. The popular village pub with canal-side beer garden is an easy 5 minute stroll along the tow path. With Petworth seven miles away and Cranleigh, Horsham, Pulborough and Godalming all within eight miles, Loxwood has access to an excellent variety of shopping and recreational facilities.

Loxwood has a village primary school and The Weald Senior School and Sixth Form (Ofsted Outstanding) has a daily bus service from the village. There are a number of reputable independent schools in the area including Cranleigh, Charterhouse and Priorsfield at Godalming, King Edward’s Witley, St Catherine’s in Bramley, Christs Hospital School and Pennthorpe School at Rudgwick. School buses for Brighton College, Hurstpierpoint College and Seaford College all service Loxwood. Sporting facilities include racing at Goodwood, polo at Cowdray Park and Hurtwood Park, sailing on the south coast and golf courses at Slinfold, Chiddingfold, Milford and West Sussex at Pulborough.