FOCUS ON: EAST GRINSTEAD
LINDENS, HOLTYE ROAD, RH19
Price: £750,000
Sadly, £750,000 won’t buy you the whole of this Grade II-listed country house built for the Cunard family at the start of the 20th century, but it will buy you the south-west wing. The interior needs updating but it has four bedrooms and there is potential to enlarge the kitchen/breakfast room and turn the attic rooms in to further living accommodation. East Grinstead is just under an hour by train from London Bridge. Contact: Hamptons on 01892 516611,
www.hamptons.co.uk
DUCKYLS CLOCK HOUSE, VOWELS LANE, WEST HOATHLY, RH19
Price: £1.1m
Believed to date from the 16th century, this timber-framed period home even has a working clock tower. Located just four miles outside East Grinstead, the property has four bedrooms, of which two have an en suite. The large drawing and dining room has a full-length elm ceiling timber and an open fireplace. There is a walled cobbled courtyard which has parking space.
Contact: Savills on 01444 446000,
www.savills.co.uk
THE WINCEL, TOMPSETS BANK, FOREST ROW, RH18
Price: £895,000
This is an impressive Edwardian family home set in a small town just outside East Grinstead and next to Ashdown Forest. The key feature is the double-height drawing room, which has an open fire, exposed beams, a minstrel’s gallery and a full-height mullion-framed window. There are six bedrooms and a sitting room with two curved bay windows. Outside there is a raised terrace.
Contact: Chesterton Humberts on 01342 326326,
www.chestertonhumberts.com