A historic equestrian house with enviornment, stables, over 12 acres, outside swimming pool and extra

This property is in a rural place whereas remaining accessible to bigger cities and London. It has the whole lot you can want for relating to rural idyll – so does it float your boat?

Little Headfoldswood is on the sting of the village of Loxwood in West Sussex. This property is close to to the bigger village of Cranleigh and the cities of Horsham, Billingshurst and Guildford. The close by A3 supplies quick entry to London, the motorway community, Gatwick, Heathrow and Southampton airports, whereas the mainline stations at Guildford, Woking, Godalming, Haslemere and Billingshurst present quick companies to London Waterloo and Victoria, which take simply over an hour.

Sporting amenities within the space embrace golf at Chiddingfold and the West Surrey golf membership, racing at Goodwood, Ascot and Epsom, polo at Cowdray Park and crusing from Chichester and alongside the south coast. There are various footpaths and bridleways within the space for strolling and driving.

The All England Leaping Course at Hickstead (20 miles) hosts all kinds of equestrian occasions all year long. Different equestrian centres within the space embrace Coombelands Equestrian (eight miles), Brendon Stud (25 miles) and Sussex Equestrian Centre (12 miles).

The South of England Showground (27 miles) is simply over half-hour from the entrance door.

Head out with the Crawley & Horsham Hunt, or head over to Bucklands Farm (23 miles) or Felcourt cross-country (32 miles) for those who fancy a change of tempo.

Sussex Equine Hospital is 11 miles away, do you have to require their companies.

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Roughly 4.5 acres of the entire 12 acres are paddocks, with subject shelters, and you may journey straight from the property onto an area bridlepath, situated on the backside of the fields.

There are two stables, plus a Grade II-listed Sussex Barn and a 20x40m enviornment with drainage and a silica sand/rubber floor.

Little Headfoldswood is approached by means of a 5 bar gate resulting in a big gravel drive and parking space. The primary backyard, which extends to roughly 4.5 acres, is principally laid to garden and is split into totally different areas. There’s additionally about 1.5 acres of mature woodland.

Exterior there’s additionally a swimming pool and a greenhouse.

Little Headfoldswood dates again to Tudor occasions with seventeenth Century additions. All principal rooms within the house are south going through.

There’s a bespoke Shaker type open plan kitchen with a breakfast/household room, which has a woodburning range, strong wood floors and two units of French doorways opening to the south going through terraces. There’s an electrical AGA with matching AGA fridge and freezer, and a ceramic butler sink. Adjoining to the kitchen there’s a pantry and scullery.

The eating room has an Inglenook hearth and unique brick flooring beneath a fitted sisal carpet. The drawing room is triple facet and options an open hearth and bay window. A cosy has French doorways to the backyard, wood floors and an open hearth and is subsequent to the doorway corridor/library with bespoke cabinetry. Finishing the bottom flooring are two cloakrooms and a utility room in addition to an externally accessed boiler room and wooden retailer.

The primary flooring is accessed through two staircases. The primary stairs result in a touchdown and the principal bed room, which is double facet and overlooks the gardens. It has an en-suite with a free-standing bathtub, walk-in bathe, and an adjoining dressing room.

There are 4 additional double bedrooms and a household rest room on this a part of the home. The fourth bed room hyperlinks with one other household rest room and this in flip results in three additional double bedrooms, previously configured as a employees flat with its personal staircase adjoining to the kitchen and utility on the bottom flooring.

There’s a separate cottage, which has lately been totally renovated, tucked away within the backyard. It’s appropriate for a variety of makes use of reminiscent of workplace, studio area, pool home or ancillary lodging. It has an open plan dwelling area with a vaulted ceiling with unique beams, woodburning range, separate kitchen, and a bathe room.

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