Nightingale Farmhouse

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Nightingale Farmhouse is an attractive brick built character family home offering light-filled accommodation arranged over two floors and offers the prospective purchaser the ideal opportunity to combine a family home with an established, 5-star rated boarding kennels business. The ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall and comprises a well-proportioned sitting room with exposed wooden flooring and feature cast iron open fireplace opening into a triple aspect glazed conservatory with French doors to the garden terrace. There is also a large L-shaped kitchen/dining room and a spacious adjoining fitted utility room with feature black-and white chequerboard tiled looring, cloakroom and a door to the rear garden. The kitchen offers a range of modern wall and base units with wooden worktops, modern integrated Neff appliances and a door to the rear garden while the remaining area has exposed wooden flooring and space for a good-sized table. On the first floor the property offers three wellproportioned bedrooms, the principal bedroom featuring an original cast iron open fireplace, together with a modern fully-tiled family bathroom.

The property occupies a picturesque rural position a short distance from Polegate town centre which offers a thriving High Street with a range of local and independent stores, a supermarket, cafés, restaurants and services including a popular primary school. The nearby market town of Hailsham provides more comprehensive shopping and service facilities while the seaside town of Eastbourne offers boutique shopping, a modern shopping centre, numerous hotels, cafés, restaurants and recreational facilities including theatres, cinemas, an art gallery, marina, swimming pools, fitness centres, and Willingdon Golf Club. The South Downs National Park provides extensive walking and riding opportunities. Polegate station offers regular direct trains to central London in around 80 minutes, while the A27 gives easy access to the national road and motorway network and to London airports.

The property is approached over a gravelled driveway offering parking for multiple vehicles with a five-bar gate separating the boarding kennels from the private house. The private garden surrounding the property is laid mainly to level lawn and features a raised decked terrace, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining. The boarding kennels business benefits from a large timber outbuilding with barn storage, a large polytunnel, insulated boarding kennels with 10 kennels with individual runs, fitted kitchen and store, two separate isolation kennels with a run, a mobile home with three rooms, a kitchen, shower room and separate W.C. and a level fenced paddock.

Marketed by: Strutt & Parker, Lewes