The Village, Ashurst
Guide Price £895,000

Sweetmans is an elegant detached period house originally of Victorian era and understood to have been built in 1880 with an attractive exterior comprising a combination of exposed brick with painted rendering at first floor level and under a pitched roof covered in clay tiles including to the later additions to the rear which have been sympathetically married with the original and previously with planning consent for further enlargement (Horsham District Council ref DC/10/0067). The house affords beautifully presented bright and airy accommodation spread over two floors with particularly spacious ground floor accommodation and with scope to adapt the existing first floor accommodation into four separate bedrooms or as currently utilised as one large suite, or alternatively to undertake an extension (subject to consent) to the property in accordance with the previous approved plans to provide a further upstairs bathroom and larger bedroom along with larger utility room/breakfast area to the kitchen. The house is finished in neutral colours mainly from the Farrow & Ball range and with uPVC double glazed windows throughout along with substantial hand-built wooden double glazed garden room to the rear to take full advantage of the fine outlook over the neighbouring pasture land. There is electric underfloor heating to the kitchen, utility room and the first floor modern shower room. Many of the rooms are double or even triple aspect and enjoy a lovely outlook over the very pretty garden with areas of lawn intermingling with colourful specimen herbaceous and shrub borders and variety of specimen trees and plants and with feature pond along with vegetable bed to one side. To the South-West side is a pretty rose and clematis covered pergola with paths leading to the side of the house and, adjacent to the back door, insulated timber workshop/potential office with power and light connected. To the other side of the garden is a timber cabin with electric sauna with further garden shed and greenhouse. From the electric gated private entrance drive with parking adjoining the timber garage and with planning consent having previously been passed (ref: DC/09/0182) and now lapsed for a replacement and enlarged double garage.