Pickers Cottages

NO CHAIN - HUGE POTENTIAL- Oast House/Substantial Barn/Hop Pickers Cottages and RANGE OF OUTBUILDINGS. Grade II Listed. Owned by the same family for over 100 years. Historically the family had worked the land, predominantly growing tomatoes in vast wooden framed greenhouses, which used to stand in a partially walled garden to the North East. This deceptive family home was converted into a residential dwelling from agricultural buildings in the mid-1980s. The oast house holds a great deal of character with accommodation including a large kitchen with breakfast area, central reception hallway and a large utility room and a cloakroom. The 30ft Living room has an exposed brick fireplace and inset log burner. From the entrance hallway, a split level staircase rises up to the first floor which provides 4 double bedrooms, a family bathroom, and a separate shower room. The bedrooms are divided into two on each side, and they both have plenty of built-in storage.
Requiring modernisation and redecoration throughout, but offers a huge amount of potential to extend and improve, perhaps incorporating the adjoining barn (subject to pp).
Outside: A wonderful feature of this listing is a large courtyard with an adjoining Grade II listed brick barn, believed to have been built in the Napoleonic era and measuring approximately 50ft x 22ft. Possible option to incorporate this building into the adjoining main house (subject to planning). In addition is a brick built building described by the owners as Old Hop pickers accommodation, brick built beneath a clay tiled roof and divided into three separate rooms. Abutting this is a former pig-sty which has been converted into a very useful undercover 3 bay car barn. To the North east slightly and situated on the edge of one of the fields is a Cowshed which measures approximately 66ft x 15ft of mixed construction and thought to be the oldest outbuilding. Presently the Oast house enjoys extensive areas of lawn, with a long drive approach, past another dwelling, into the courtyard at the front of the barn. We are advised that the land measures approximately 14 acres (tbv) consisting of two large open fields and a smaller paddock with a naturally fed pond surrounded by a copse of trees. Please see additional information: Solid fuel Raeburn provides domestic hot water and heating, private drainage. Tax Band G.

Located down a private drive admist open countryside yet only 1.1 mile from the range of local shops in Horam village. The village has a small Co-Op supermarket, range of local shops, vets and cafes. There is also a Golf course, tennis courts, Lakeside Cafe with fishing and riding school. There is a local primary school in Maynards Green and a selection of private preparatory and secondary schools in the area. Heathfield Community College is served with a bus from the village and also to Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne. Nearest main line stations are at Polegate, Uckfield and Stonegate all about 10 miles distant.


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