7 bed detached house for sale

High Street, Blackboys, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22

The property is an impressive Queen Anne style Grade II listed detached house on the set within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The house offers substantial and well-proportioned accommodation, arranged over three floors, as well as a cellar providing storage.

Believed to date back to the late 17th century, the house offers a wealth of character features including inglenook fireplaces, parquet flooring, good ceiling heights and an attractive bay window to the family room.

The spacious reception hall, which has a fireplace and a window to the side, gives access to the principal reception rooms as well as the useful cellar which provides two storage rooms.

At the front of the house there is a study/home office and a cloakroom. Steps from the reception hall lead down to the secondary hall with a door to the rear, utility room, walk-in larder and a door to the spacious double aspect kitchen/breakfast room. The kitchen has a range of fitted wall and base units, a breakfast bar, butler's sink, Aga cooker and quarry tiled flooring. A door leads through to a rear hall with a w.c., store room, log room and a door to the side.

To the rear of the house, the impressive reception rooms include a double aspect sitting room, a formal dining room and a family room, all linked with double doors leading into each room. The sitting room also has a door to the rear terrace and gardens.

On the first floor there are five bedrooms as well as two bathrooms and a w.c. There is also gym with a door leading through to a further gym room with sauna. There are two further bedrooms on the second floor as well as an attic/tank room with a window to the front.

The house is approached over a gravel driveway leading to the brick built double garage and parking area at the front of the house.

The beautifully maintained gardens surrounding the house offer a great deal of privacy and are laid to lawn with a multitude of mature trees, shrubs and plants. There is a large brick paved terrace at the rear of the house as well as a stone water fountain and a pond.

Buxted station 3.5 miles (London Bridge from 76 minutes). Uckfield station 3.8 miles (London Bridge from 80 minutes). Heathfield 4 miles. Mayfield 7 miles. Lewes 11 miles. Haywards Heath 15 miles (London Bridge from 44 minutes). Tunbridge Wells 15 miles (London Bridge from 44 minutes). Brighton 20 miles. M23 24 miles. Gatwick airport 26 miles. M25 29 miles. London 55 miles. (All times and distances approximate)

The property is located in a convenient position in the heart of the popular village of Blackboys, close to Buxted and Uckfield mainline stations, within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village of Blackboys has a primary school and a well-known and established public house - The Blackboys Inn. Uckfield, Heathfield, Tunbridge Wells and the historic county town of Lewes all provide a good range of shopping, leisure and commercial amenities. The A23 to the west of Haywards Heath provides access to Brighton, Gatwick airport, the M25 and national motorway network.

There is a good choice of schooling in the area in both the state and private sectors including Blackboys Primary School, Cross-in-Hand primary, Skippers Hill Preparatory School in Five Ashes, Cumnor House Preparatory School in Danehill, Mayfield School, Bede's School in Upper Dicker, and Eastbourne College.

Leisure amenities in the area include golf at a number of interesting courses in the vicinity including Dewlands Manor and the East Sussex National; local rugby, tennis and cricket clubs; walking and riding in the surrounding countryside; sailing and water sports on the south coast.