Sold St Helena Lane, Plumpton Green, BN7 3DQ Guide Price £1,650,000

Challoners Farmhouse is an impressive individual detached country house with a separate detached cottage, stable block and garaging set in beautiful grounds extending to just over 3 acres in an idyllic rural location enjoying a favoured southerly aspect. This delightful home is beautifully presented throughout featuring a wealth of oak joinery including exposed ceiling and wall timbers, some flooring and internal latched doors, has the benefit of oil central heating, double glazing and solar panels. This splendid property incorporates a fine triple aspect sitting and living room with feature fireplace with wood burner a bespoke kitchen with hand painted solid wood units, a superb triple aspect dining/family room, useful utility room, 4 double bedrooms including a master suite with dressing area and bathroom plus a further family bathroom. In addition, there is a detached 2 bedroom cottage (planning permission was granted to enlarge this to create 3 bedrooms) which would ideally suit a separate home office, studio or annexe, there is an attached tractor shed and large garage, additional garage and a stable block incorporating 3 loose boxes and open sided store. The beautiful grounds extend to just over 3 acres enjoying a favoured southerly aspect arranged with wide sweeping lawns including a small orchard, a paddock, kitchen garden and formal area to the rear incorporating a two-tier sun terrace.

Challoners Farmhouse occupies a glorious rural location adjacent to open countryside and farmland lying between Plumpton Green and Wivelsfield Green both of which offer local amenities, inn, village hall and primary school. Plumpton has a station offering a good service to central London (Victoria 1 hour). Haywards Heath is 4.7 miles distant, Lewes 7.3 miles and Burgess Hill 3.5 miles, all of which offer a good range of shops, leisure facilities and an array of restaurants. The A23 lies 7.6 miles to the west providing a direct route to the motorway network, Gatwick Airport is just under 18 miles to the north and the cosmopolitan city of Brighton and the coast is 12.5 miles to the south. There are a number of well regarded schools and colleges both private and public within the locality including Great Walstead, Burgess Hill School for Girls, Ardingly and Hurstpierpoint Colleges, there is a network of footpaths in the area linking nearby Chailey Common whilst the South Downs National Park is just a short drive offering a beautiful natural venue for countryside walking. There are golf courses at nearby Ditchling, Haywards Heath and Lindfield, water sports at Ardingly Reservoir, show jumping at Hickstead and horse racing at Plumpton.