4 bedroom house for sale

ROOMS Hall, Inner hall, Drawing room, Sitting room, Dining room, Orangery kitchen/day room, Cloakroom, Wine cellar, Landing, Three double bedrooms, Three bath/shower rooms, Three attic rooms, Large rear garden, Off road parking, Detached single garage  

LOCATION Located in the Conservation Area of the Ancient Town of Winchelsea, one of the few examples of a bastide town in England based on the grid-iron street plan with wide, regular streets arranged around a giant square and the incomplete cathedral type church of St. Thomas the Martyr. Local facilities include the Little Shop convenience store, together with a primary school and public house. For more comprehensive facilities there is the Cinque Port of Rye (3 miles) with train services to Eastbourne and to Ashford International, from where there are high speed connections to St. Pancras, London in 37 minutes.  

DESCRIPTION A fine Grade II Listed Georgian period house, forming a substantial part of a late eighteenth century mansion, presenting a stuccoed external front elevation with a cornice and parapet and a flat pediment over the centre windows which are flanked by Ionic pilasters rising through the first and second floors. To the rear is a more recent orangery extension housing the kitchen/day room. Particular features include dado height panelling to many rooms, period fireplaces, cornicing, exposed floorboards and the original classic Georgian staircase. Note: Mr Nesbit MP built a manufactory in Barrack Square in 1790 for making linens and then brought weavers across from Cambrai. The names of emigrés from France are remembered in two of Winchelsea's finest houses "Mariteau" and "Periteau".  

GROUND FLOOR The property is approached via a round-headed doorway with a panelled door and fanlight above opening into a hall, with a cloakroom off, which opens out to a spacious inner hall with a door to the garden, a turned staircase to the upper floors and steps down to a cellar divided into three sections with wine bins, brick and cobble floors.

From the hall, glazed double doors open into a sitting room with a large sash window to the front and a fireplace with a marble surround. Double doors lead through to a well proportioned dining room with a fireplace with a decorative surround. To the rear is an orangery style kitchen/day room with a large roof lantern and a pair of arched glazed doors with a fanlight above and matching windows to either side overlooking the garden. The kitchen area has a range of bespoke cabinets comprising cupboards and drawers beneath granite work surfaces with an inset 4 burner gas hob, built in double oven, plumbing for a dishwasher and a stainless steel sink with mixer tap.
 

FIRST FLOOR On the first floor, there is a drawing room with two large sash windows, fitted book shelving to one wall and a fireplace with a real flame gas fire, together with a double bedroom overlooking the rear garden and an adjacent shower room. 

SECOND FLOOR On the second floor, there is a landing with a built in laundry cupboard with space for a washing machine and tumble dryer. There are two spacious double bedrooms both of which have en suite bath/shower facilities. On the upper floor, there are three interconnecting attic rooms, one of which serves as a double bedroom with a dormer window and another gives access to the roof for maintenance. 

OUTSIDE The property is approached by wrought iron gates and a gravelled crescent driveway shared with three other properties leading to an off-road parking space to the front of the house. There is a small open plan area of garden to the front with a ragstone dwarf wall, Yew tree and decorative wrought iron fence with a rope twist rail. The hedge and fence enclosed landscaped rear garden, which extends to about 65' x 50' max, has a wide flagstone paved terrace with a stone balustrade and steps down to an abundantly planted lower section with paved pathways, a small ornamental pond, a curved rill and burgeoning flower beds overspilling with geraniums, lavender, euphorbia, stachys byzantine, ferns, lilies, iris, alliums together with hydrangeas, a clipped bay tree, acer, box hedging and a three-tiered topiary holly tree. At the far end of the garden is a pedestrian gate for rear access and a detached single garage, accessed from Kent Close, of brick construction beneath a pitched tiled roof with an up and over door to front and a personal door to the garden.  

LOCAL AUTHORITY All mains services. Gas central heating
Council Tax Band G