Listed for £1,300,000
November 10, 2025
Sold for £650,000
2014
Sold for £470,000
2006
Sold for £377,000
2004
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Garden
Bamboroughs comes with a charming private courtyard garden at the back with separate street access onto Church Street via a set of large wooden gates, providing privacy and security. The garden is perfect for entertaining in warmer months with space for a barbecue, dining area and seating area surrounded by an army of potted plants and a trellis with trailing vine. The courtyard also incorporates a secure off-street parking space for a large car or SUV, rare to find in town.
Living In Petworth - Set in the rolling South Downs National Park, this delightful ancient market town has managed to remain unspoilt whilst moving with the times, making it an exceptionally beautiful and enjoyable place to live.
Featuring on numerous occasions in The Sunday Times’ ‘Best Place to Live in the Southeast’ rankings, and winning that title in 2019, Petworth has so much to offer. The town covers all daily amenities, with an attractive array of independent shops, delicatessens, butchers, coffee houses, great pubs and restaurants, and a popular monthly farmers market. It is also renowned for its antiques shops (over 30 of which are dotted around the town, and some of them on Lombard Street itself).
Petworth’s stunning historic architecture make a fitting backdrop to the town’s rich cultural scene. Petworth House, run by the National Trust, is one of the standout treasure houses in the country with an impressive collection of Turners as well as works by Reynolds, Van Dyck, Titian, Gainsborough and William Blake. There is also some fantastic contemporary art to be seen at Newlands House Gallery, which holds regular museum quality exhibitions, and the annual Petworth Festival with its world class programme of music, arts and literary events.
Nearby Goodwood offers a vibrant blend of culture and sport, hosting the Festival of Speed, Glorious Goodwood horse racing, and Revival, alongside golf, flying, and a celebrated motor circuit. Cowdray is a leading centre for British polo, including the prestigious Gold Cup, complemented by country pursuits, wellness events, and artisan food experiences. There is a wide choice of excellent local walking routes. Petworth Park’s 700-acre deer park, landscaped by ‘Capability’ Brown, provides scenic walks right on the doorstep with further routes along the Shimmings Valley, to Pulborough, and along the nearby South Downs Way. The glorious South coast is a 30-minute drive away with sailing from Chichester Harbour and popular sandy beaches including West Wittering.
Transport
Pulborough station is a 12-minute drive away, and runs regular services to London Victoria in approximately one hour and 20 minutes. Gatwick Airport is roughly 50 minutes away by car.
Pulborough 6 miles (London Victoria from 74 minutes)
Haslemere 11 miles (London Waterloo from 52 minutes), London 53 miles
Gatwick International Airport 31 miles
(Distances and times approximate)
Chapters Past - The town of Petworth, famed for its immensely rich and fascinating history, needs little introduction. Much of the town’s history is intertwined with the Percy family, who inherited Petworth Park in the 12th century. The current Petworth House was built in the late 17th century following the marriage of heiress Elizabeth Percy to Charles Seymour, the Duke of Somerset.
As well as being one of the prettiest streets in Petworth, Lombard Street is also one of the best preserved. The street runs between the church and the market square and would have been the town’s main commercial hub during the medieval period right up until the 19th century. Its elegant name likely derives from its former historic role as a thriving commercial street, the term Lombard being associated with early banking and trade by Northern Italian merchants. These merchants brought with them financial practices such as bills of exchange, credit, remittances, and advanced money lending techniques and are referenced as stock figures in historic English literature, including Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Lombard Street would have been lined with shops providing goods for both the town and Petworth House itself. There are reputed to be tunnels running between some of the houses on Lombard Street to Petworth House, used for ease of transporting goods back and forth. Most of the street’s buildings have since been converted to private homes making it a prime residential spot, with its cobbled lane and high concentration of listed houses dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th to early 19th century. Bambouroughs house dates from the early 19th century and was at one time a butcher’s shop, as evidenced by the wonderful decorative tiles still visible on its façade.