5 Bed Cottage For Sale
The Street, Bolney, RH17

£900,000 (Freehold)

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5-bedroom Grade II listed house (2,401 sq.ft.) in central village locat
4 separate reception rooms - sitting room, dining room, family room and study.
Kitchen with Rayburn. Separate utility room. Ground floor cloakroom.
Master bedroom with en-suite shower room.
4 further bedrooms and family shower room. Separate family bathroom.
Private driveway and garage (part converted).
Front area of garden. Rear garden enjoying high level of privacy.
Convenient location close to village centre, nearby schools and road access onto A/M23.
Scope to further improve and refurbish (STPP).
EPC Rating: Exempt. Council Tax Band: G. NO ONWARD CHAIN.

Mansell McTaggart Cuckfield are delighted to bring to the market one of Bolney’s most charming properties, historically ‘The Old Bakery’ a 5-BEDROOM, GRADE II LISTED PERIOD RESIDENCE, believed to have been built in 1892. This truly unique and sizeable home (2,401 sq.ft.) boasting 4-RECEPTION ROOMS, enjoys sprawling accommodation across two adjoining buildings, which, over time, has been subject to renovation and refurbishment, providing versatile and neutrally decorated accommodation throughout, yet offering great opportunity for an incoming purchaser to further improve to their own specification (subject to the usual planning consents).

This truly unique home hosts a wealth of original features throughout, in particular its bread ovens, creating a focal point and talking piece within the living room, with the original shop front now used as a study. The property is ideally situated within a short walk of the village centre, highly regarded primary school as well as having easy road access onto the A/M23.

The accommodation in brief comprises: Ledge and Brace double entrance door into RECEPTION HALL with stripped pine floor giving access to CLOAKROOM with white Victorian-style suite as well as adjacent, separate and spacious UTILITY ROOM with Butler sink and spaces/plumbing for appliances. Two separate wings form the accommodation with each positioned off the reception hall. The NORTH-EAST PORTION boasts a large and bright, part-glass vaulted DINING ROOM laid to a stone tiled floor with electric underfloor heating and step up through glass double doors into KITCHEN fitted with cream-fronted Shaker-style wall and base units with integrated double electric oven and ceramic hob, Butler sink, space for dishwasher and Rayburn (for cooking and heating) upon a tiled floor. Door into RECEPTION/STUDY with woodburning stove inset to exposed brick fireplace and stairs rising to first floor. Further door into FAMILY ROOM/SNUG, formerly the bakery’s shop front, with woodburning stove inset to exposed brick fireplace, large ornate window and external doors to front and side elevations.

FIRST FLOOR comprises MASTER BEDROOM to the front with modern EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM and TWO FURTHER BEDROOMS both with fitted wardrobe cupboards and served by a separate, modern FAMILY SHOWER ROOM.

The SOUTH-WEST PORTION comprises a sizeable part-vaulted SITTING ROOM with stripped-pine floor and features the original baker’s ovens creating a delightful showpiece. Additionally, are French doors to the rear garden and a turned staircase rising to the FIRST FLOOR LANDING where there are TWO SPACIOUS BEDROOMS each with built-in eaves wardrobe cupboards and a dormer window, served by a FAMILY BATHROOM equipped with a white Victorian-style free-standing claw bath, pedestal basin and WC, part-tiled to walls with a natural stone tiled floor with electric underfloor heating.

OUTSIDE: A PRIVATE GATED DRIVEWAY provides parking for several vehicles leading to an attached GARAGE with power/light and part-converted, ideal to expand on the accommodation if desired (subject to planning consents).

A FRONT AREA OF GARDEN is laid to lawn displaying plant and shrub borders with a brick paved pathway serving the external doors.

The REAR GARDEN is laid to level lawn and spans the width of the property. There is also a paved PATIO, ideal for alfresco dining and entertaining, situated beyond the dining room and accessed through French doors.

A tree-lined backdrop with neighbouring garden beyond gives a HIGH DEGREE OF PRIVACY AND SECLUSION.

NO ONWARD CHAIN

An early inspection is highly recommended to avoid disappointment.

Location Summary

The property is situated in ‘The Street’ within Bolney village just a short walk to Bolney’s Church of England Primary School, the Rawson Village Hall with its adjacent playground as well as the picturesque church of St. Mary Magdalene.

‘The Bolney Stage’, a highly popular pub/restaurant is located in nearby London Road, furthermore and close-by, is the award-winning Bolney Wine Estate with its vineyard tours, restaurant and café.

Various sports clubs and social clubs/groups are on hand as well as an abundance of bridleways and footpaths for enjoying the immediate countryside. There is also a fuel station offering groceries for convenience needs,

The larger town of Haywards Heath (5.5 miles) provides more comprehensive shopping facilities and amenities, whilst a little farther out is Crawley (9.5 miles), Horsham (10 miles) and Brighton (15 miles) where extensive shopping, social and recreation facilities as well as services can be found. The property is also conveniently situated for the A/M23 which gives quick road access to London, Gatwick Airport (15 miles), the M25 and the south coast.

Council Tax Band: G