5 Bedrooms for sale in High Street, Burwash TN19 | £ 625,000

Property Description

Situation: Southside Cottage is situated in centre of the sought after village of Burwash with its pretty High Street, church and beautiful surrounding countryside. The village provides a good range of amenities including a post office/general store, primary school, doctors’ surgery and period inns. A wider range of facilities can be found in the market town of Heathfield, which lies about 7 miles to the west, where there are supermarkets, banks, as well as primary and secondary schools. Tunbridge Wells is about 15 miles to the north and Hastings is a similar distance to the coast. The A21 is within easy reach by car and gives access to the M25 and coastal routes.

Etchingham and Stonegate mainline stations are approximately 7 minutes away by car and provide a regular commuter service to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street.

The National Trust property, Bateman's, home of Rudyard Kipling, is also just a few minutes away and the surrounding countryside includes Bewl Water Reservoir, reputedly the largest area of inland water in the South East, where a wide range of water sports can be enjoyed and the coast is also within easy reach.

Description: Formerly two late 19th Century cottages, Southside Cottage is a most attractive attached Grade II listed property with pretty external elevations of brick beneath a tiled roof. The cottage has been well maintained by the current owner and benefits from period features throughout, including original fireplaces, sash windows, latch doors and some lovely flooring, as well as from having exceptional far reaching southerly views over adjoining countryside.

The accommodation is arranged over four floors and includes on the ground floor a dining room with an original exposed brick floor, sash window to the front, feature exposed brick fireplace, deep storage cupboard and doors leading to the kitchen and sitting room. The kitchen has a range of pine wall and base units with solid pine work surfaces, quarry tiled floor, gas fired Aga (cream), pantry and doors leading to a good sized utility room, useful cellar and stable door leading out to the garden. There is a sitting room which has an attractive open brick fireplace and is open plan to a family room with a stable door leading out to the garden, stairs to the first floor and a further door leading to a rear lobby and cloakroom. On the first floor there are three bedrooms and a large family bathroom, which has a freestanding cast iron bath and separate shower cubicle. Bedroom 1 has an ensuite shower room. Separate stairs lead to the second floor of each half of the cottage where there are two further bedrooms (one is currently used as a study), which enjoy far reaching views to the rear over surrounding countryside; the fourth bedroom has a door leading to a good-sized attic.

Outside, there is a pretty area of garden to the front of the cottage and to the rear there is a lovely well established south facing garden. The garden has a large brick terrace, which is ideal for outdoor entertaining, and an outbuilding measuring 21’11 x 6’0 (6.7m x 1.8m), which is currently divided onto two rooms with plumbing and power connected. The garden is mainly laid to lawn and planted with a variety of mature shrubs and border plants, being bordered with mature mixed hedging and backing onto an open field. The cottage also benefits from having a single en-bloc garage.

Services: Mains water and electricity. Gas central heating
Local Authority: Rother District Council Current EPC Rating: Exempt

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