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**Guide Price £1,400,000 £1,450,000**
An impressive Grade II Listed period house, sympathetically updated to a high standard, featuring well proportioned accommodation, situated in this favoured rural village, together with a Sussex barn of 1,195 sq ft, and a most beautiful part wall enclosed south facing garden of 0.65 of an acre.

Gatehurst is an impressive Grade II Listed period house, sympathetically updated to a high standard. The property features well proportioned immaculately presented accommodation, with light oak timbering, and within recent years re wired, re plumbed and a Klargester drainage system installed. The elevations are brick, part colour washed white and tile hung beneath a tiled roof.
Gatehurst forms a very desirable family home, situated in this favoured rural village only a mile from the sea at Pett Level.
The main features are
Oak front door to impressive reception hall with part panelled walls, fireplace, oak staircase to the first floor.
The drawing room has a wide stone inglenook fireplace with wood burner, parquet flooring. The study has a range of bookshelves and is double aspect.
The family room is double aspect and has a door to the garden. The adjacent sitting room has an inglenook fireplace with ornate panelling above, gas wood effect burner, and views over the garden.
The inner hall has a quarry tiled floor, cupboard housing the hot water cylinder, door with steps down to the two room cellar housing the gas fired central heating boiler. Coat boot room leading through to the cloakroom utility room with glazed sink, slate worktop, plumbing for washing machine, WC.
The excellent kitchen breakfast room has oak framed picture windows overlooking the south facing walled garden, stone floor, vaulted ceiling, glazed sink with granite working surfaces and cupboards and drawers beneath, wall cupboards above; Falcon range gas cooker; integrated dishwasher. Central island unit. Door to the south facing terrace and walled garden.
First floor galleried landing. The principal bedroom has a fireplace and an en suite bathroom with bath having shower fitting, basin with cupboard under, WC and a large walk in wardrobe, .
Bedroom 2 has wardrobe cupboards. There is an inner landing and a family bathroom with bath having shower fitting, basin, large airing cupboard, bidet and WC.
There are three further bedrooms, one with a fireplace.


Outside
There is a gravelled drive approach shared in part with an adjacent neighbour leading to a large gravelled parking area in front of the Barn.
This Sussex barn is timber framed with stone, brick and weatherboard clad elevations beneath a part tiled and corrugated iron roof. Also incorporated is a log store, garage and tool shed.
In addition, there is a substantial picturesque stone and tiled roof workshop and a glasshouse. There is also a working well in this part of the garden.


The Gardens
These are a particular feature at Gatehurst, the south facing section being wall enclosed and most beautifully landscaped over the years with a wide terrace adjacent to the house, brick paths, central lawn and a wide selection of specimen trees and shrubs, including topiary yew.
In addition, there is a further area of grass small orchard with flowering cherry, mulberry, apple and plum.
In all about 0.65 of an acre."