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Guide Price £1,500,000

6 Bedroom Detached House for Sale

Dormansland

Guide Price £1,500,000

Key Features

  • Six Bedrooms
  • Tennis Court
  • Paddock
  • 4 Garages
  • Sweeping Gravel Drive
  • Family Country Home
  • Stables
  • Extensive Gardens
  • Feature Koi Pond
  • 4 Reception Rooms

Full Description

| Six Bedrooms | Country Home | Tennis Court | 4 Receptions | Drawing Room | Stables | 4 Garages | Paddock | Extensive Gardens | Private Gravel Drive | Secluded Rural Location |

Details - Greenaway Residential Estate Agents are proud to offer to the market this substantial and well-proportioned country house located in the ever popular and exclusive area of Dormansland.

Beacon Beech House is a charming family home of character, dating from the 1550s with later additions. The house has attractive features including wood paneling and ceiling timbers. The property provides both formal and informal entertaining areas and has a wonderful outlook over the superb gardens from all rooms with plot totaling around 1.75 acres.

• A covered porch with oak front door leads to the spacious dual aspect reception hall with access to three of the reception rooms, staircase, downstairs cloakroom with separate W.C. and door leading to the rear of the property.

• The principal reception room comprises of two elegant bay windows with views over gardens, hardwood flooring and fire place. Although currently boarded this room also provides access to the study/drawing room.

• There is a generous sized study/drawing room featuring wood paneled walls and access to the garden.

• Reception room 2 features again half wood paneled walls, fire place, hardwood flooring and dual windows with aspect over the front and a door leading to a further reception room.

• Also located on the ground floor, on either side of the wings of the house is a wet room with fully tiled walls and floor, W.C and basin. As well as a further cloakroom with basin and separate W.C.

• The well appointed kitchen is double aspect with a door leading to the rear garden. There is a comprehensive range of wall and base cupboards with a matching island unit and a large larder cupboard.

• The adjoining utility room has additional storage cupboards, space for appliances and direct access to the rear courtyard.

• The property features two staircase that rise from the hall to the galleried landing which has an outlook to the side while the other over looks the front. There are three bedrooms to each wing of the house.

• There are 6 well proportioned bedrooms all with a delightful outlook over the gardens to side, rear and front and include; the master bedroom with extensive new bedroom furniture with a large hidden en-suite featuring a wash basin, sunken jacuzzi bath, separate shower, W.C and bidet. A two further bedrooms feature built in en-suits while another two feature hand wash basins.

• The house is approached via a long gravel drive through a wooden gate which leads to the front of the house with an integral garage and provides ample parking. There is a side courtyard where there is a further double garage/workshop, a stable block comprising of two stables a further garage/store, paddock area as well as an enclosed tennis court. The secluded side courtyard features a large and fully stocked Koi pond (Koi available by separate negotiation) with extensive filtration system.

• The gardens as a whole are principally laid to lawn with some superb established trees providing an array of native species and ideal for al fresco entertaining. Leading down some brick steps at the rear of the garden is an enclosed tennis court set behind a hedge as well as stocked and shaped beds set in the lawn. Also to the rear is a fenced off paddock with access to the stable block as well as another separate gated lawn area. Along side the double garage and workshop is a secluded courtyard featuring mixed hedging and boasts an oversized and fully stocked raised Koi pond (Koi available on separate negotiation).
A post and rail fence encloses a substantial part of the garden with some mixed hedging and, in total, the area amounts to approximately 1.75 acres.

A viewing on this rarely available home comes highly recommended.  

Situation

• Beacon Beech House is situated in a glorious semi-rural position. Dormansland village has a general store and primary school. Lingfield has more comprehensive shopping facilities, a primary school and the highly regarded Notre Dame Independent Day School. Lingfield Park Marriott Hotel and Country Club and Lingfield Park Golf Course, Lingfield Racecourse, a cricket club and Country Club.

• Hospital: Highly rated locally is the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.

• Mainline Rail Services: Lingfield, Dormans, Edenbridge, Oxted. www.nationalrail.co.uk

• Primary Schools: Dormansland and Lingfield.

• Private Schools: The Preparatory Schools at Ashdown House, Brambletye, Copthorne, Cumnor
House, Hazelwood, Holmewood House and New Beacon. The Independent schools nearby are
Ardingly, Notre Dame, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Woldingham, and Worth.

• Sporting Facilities: In Dormansland there are cricket, football and tennis facilities. Racing at Lingfield Park, Plumpton and Brighton, and show jumping at Hickstead and Ardingly. Golf at Chartham Park, Holtye, Lingfield, Sweetwoods and Tandridge, and also at the two Royal Ashdown Forest courses (Forest Row), in addition to Piltdown, Paxhill Park and East Sussex National (Uckfield).

• The A22 provides access to the M25 and thus London and the suburbs, the south coast, Gatwick and Heathrow Airports and the Channel Tunnel Terminus. 

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