5 bedroom house

A characterful family home with adaptable accommodation and scope for further improvement.


Description

The White House is a handsome family home, extended over time to provide spacious and adaptable accommodation, with the potential for further improvement.

The rooms are light and spacious, with good ceiling heights throughout and stylishly presented with oak flooring to the entrance hall and period features including parquet flooring and a wide brick fireplace with wood burning stove to the sitting room. There is a modern open plan feel to the interlinking and generously proportioned living space comprising a family room, conservatory opening out to the garden, a breakfast room and a country-style kitchen, complete with an Aga.

The accommodation currently incorporates a self-contained ground floor annexe, with scope for updating or re-configuring the layout to suit individual requirements, or perhaps to amalgamate with the main house. The annexe currently provides two bedrooms, a small kitchen, a bathroom and a store room.

The White House is set within an enclosed garden with an area of lawn to the rear flanked by a brick wall and herbaceous border to one side and panel fencing and the rear elevation of a neighbouring outbuilding to the other.

To the side of the property is a gated driveway entrance, with a parking and turning area, walled courtyard, a raised fish pond and a to the front a small hedged area of garden providing privacy.

Location

The property is nestled in a convenient semi-rural location in the delightful East Sussex village of Withyham which lies between Hartfield and Groombridge.

The village is thought to have been founded to accommodate the workers on the Buckhurst Estate, home to the De La Warr family and the former station lies opposite the property, with the disused railway line a few yards away, now called the Forest Way, running for miles in both directions and open for walking, horse riding and cycling.

The historic Ashdown Forest, made famous by A A Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories, is a land mark reached within approximately 4.5 miles. Local amenities in the village include an historic church, The Dorset Arms pub, a village hall and a primary school. Hartfield is approximately 1.5 miles away, offering a general stores, farm shop, medical centre, cricket and tennis clubs, with the popular Hatch Inn on the edge of the Forest approximately 4.2 miles.

Groombridge is also good for local amenities with a post office, general store, bakery, village hall and Groombridge Place. More comprehensive facilities are available at Crowborough, approximately 4.7 miles and Tunbridge Wells to the north, which is approximately 7 miles.

State and private schools: Well regarded Primary schools in Withyham, Hartfield and Groombridge, preparatory schools in Langton Green (Holmewood House), Ashurstwood (Brambletye) and Danehill (Cumnor House).

Secondary schools include The Beacon Academy in Crowborough and Uckfield Community College. Independent senior schools include Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Mayfield Girls, the Michael Hall Steiner School in Forest Row, Bedes in Upper Dicker and Ardingly College.. Kent Grammars in Tunbridge Wells (entry by academic performance in the 11-plus exam).

Mainline rail: Ashurst (approximately 3.7 miles) and Eridge (approximately 3.9 miles), services to London Bridge, Cowden (approximately 5 miles), for London Victoria, or Tunbridge Wells (approximately 7.3 miles) to London (Charing Cross and Cannon Street, via Waterloo East and London Bridge).

Communications: The A21 to the north, via the A26, the A22, to the west, to the M25 and thereby the national motorway network, Heathrow Airport and the Channel Tunnel terminus. Gatwick Airport about 18 miles to the north west via the A264/M23.

Square Footage: 3,025 sq ft




Acreage: 0.25 Acres

Directions

TN7 4BT: From Tunbridge Wells, head south on the A26. At the mini roundabout by the Pantiles, turn right up Major Yorks Road, sign posted East Grinstead (A246). Turn left at the top onto the A264, Langton Green Road, continuing towards Groombridge on the B2110. Head down the hill to the roundabout, remain on the B2110 towards Withyham and Hartfield. After about two miles, Station Road will be seen on the right, signposted Balls Green and Blackham. Turn into Station Road and entrance gates to The White House will be found after approximately 0.4 miles on the lef-hand side.


Additional Info

Agent's Note: Our client has undertaken a specialist Flood Risk Assessment and we can make this available to any interested buyer. The house has never flooded in the past during our clients ownership, but precautions are now being taken with the installation of certain flood protection measures.

The property is linked via the annexe to a neighbouring outbuilding.

Services: Gas-fired central heating, mains water, electricity and drainage.

Outgoings: Wealden District Council[use Contact Agent Button], Tax Band G.

Marketed by: Savills, Tunbridge Wells