5 Bed Detached House, Refurb/BRRR, Wadhurst, TN5 6PL £1,450,000

Off the landing there is an airing cupboard and stairs lead up to the second floor and fifth bedroom, partly set into the eaves with eaves storage cupboards, and access doors to the tank room and a fully boarded loft.

The property is approached off a quiet rural lane with two separate vehicle entrances leading into expansive concrete courtyards adjoining the farmhouse and buildings, providing parking and turning areas for a good number of vehicles. There is also a gated pedestrian entrance leading to the front door via paving through the front lawned garden with mature trees and hedging providing screening from the lane. To the side of the farmhouse there is a tall wall incorporating an arched pedestrian entrance gate that leads to the side entrance door of the farmhouse and a large paved terrace providing a lovely sitting out and entertaining area. Beyond are the rear gardens that have been attractively landscaped, mainly laid to lawn with specimen shrubs and trees and box hedging. A wooden field gate at the bottom of the garden leads onto the pasture land and also to a large fence enclosed vegetable garden served by a greenhouse.

Buildings
The property is served by an excellent range of buildings with established B1 Light Industrial consent, use as an office and extant consent to convert into a standalone one bed dwelling, with power and lighting throughout, dimensions and layout are shown on the buildings plan contained within these particulars.

Immediately adjoining the farmhouse is a stable building complex of brick and block construction with partly rendered elevations and a pitched tile roof with wooden doors and windows. The majority of the building serves as secure storage space whilst the central part of the building has been converted into two offices totaling 18’3 x 15’7 with a front entrance door off the courtyard and a rear door leading out into the farmhouse garden.

The Old Dairy 34’11 x 22’1 also fronts the courtyard constructed from stone and brick with a pitched tile roof and lean to store of block construction with flat felt roof at the rear all secured by lockable wooden doors.

A driveway links to a further concrete courtyard with a block built modern agricultural barn 80’ x 78’ with corrugated roofing and lockable concertina steel sliding industrial doors providing complete security. One half of the building provides extensive storage for vehicles and equipment with the other having been improved/adapted to serve as a manufacturing workshop, also incorporating a vehicle inspection pit.

At the back of the barn facing the rear garden is a newly renovated cedar wood summerhouse 16’4 x 10’4.

It is considered that the buildings offer significant scope for alternative use and development (subject to all necessary consents). There is a lapsed planning consent under a Class O application, approved by Wealden District Council under reference WD/2018/2193/P01 to change the use of the office to residential accommodation. Purchasers are advised to seek their own independent planning advice.

The land extends to the north west of the farmhouse and buildings gently sloping down to the northern boundary and comprises approximately 15 acres of well managed pasture set out in two similarly sized boundary fenced field parcels. Set between these is a delightful pocket of bluebell woodland extending to about 3.5 acres. A public footpath runs through the woodland and northerly corner of the land exiting alongside the railway line and leading to Wadhurst Train Station. The property’s northern boundary follows the railway line, mostly atop the railway embankment with mature trees providing screening. There is a separate gated vehicular entrance into the land at the south east corner off Tapsells Lane in addition to access through the gardens and buildings complex.

Services
Mains electricity, water; oil-fired central heating and private drainage. LPG cooking facilities.

Local Authority
Wealden District Council.

Council Tax Band ‘G’.