7 bed detached house for sale

Bury Gate, Pulborough RH20

High View Manor

An exceptional country estate which extends to approximately 27 acres and offers a rare combination of scale, total privacy, mature woodland, paddocks and outstanding sunset aspects across the Downs.
The main house provides just under 7,000 sq ft of elegant accommodation, including seven bedrooms and six reception rooms, all approached via a secure gated entrance and an impressive circular gravel driveway with significant parking allows for entertaining on a grand scale, this estate has only had two family owners since being built in 1931.

Ground Floor

The ground floor has been designed to balance a refined family living with generous entertaining space. Double entrance doors open into a welcoming reception hall featuring solid hardwood flooring, tall oak skirting boards and an attractive oak staircase rising onto a galleried first‐floor landing.
At the heart of the home is the impressive open‐plan kitchen/breakfast room, measuring in excess of 30 ft x 22 ft. Fitted with bespoke Alexander Lewis solid pippy oak units, granite worktops and oak pillars, the kitchen is both highly functional and visually striking. A large central island incorporates a remote pop‐up television and sweeping breakfast bar, complemented by extensive pull‐out storage and a matching granite and oak dining table. With windows on all four elevations, the space is wonderfully light and inviting with 360 degree views of the estate.
Appliances include a Stoves range cooker, Insinkerator instant hot water tap with filtered hot and cold water, waste disposal unit and Miele dishwasher etc. A separate utility/laundry room continues the Alexander Lewis oak cabinetry.
The principal living room enjoys a solid hardwood floor and a cosy open fireplace, with French oak doors opening onto a south‐facing Fittleworth stone terrace that runs the full width of the house. This sun‐filled terrace offers beautiful views across the 4 acres of formal gardens, terraced lawns, rose garden to the woodland beyond, an ideal setting for relaxation and outdoor entertaining.
Additional reception rooms include a formal dining room, gym, entertainment room, comfortable family room and a spacious office complemented with full fibre to the premises broadband.

First Floor

The first floor features two luxurious principal bedroom suites. The master suite benefits from a walk‐in dressing room with fitted Hulsta wardrobes and a beautifully appointed en‐suite bathroom finished in solid travertine stone, featuring a split‐stone feature wall, Villeroy & Boch vanity unit, walk‐in shower and a slipper bath.
The second principal suite offers an expansive en‐suite bathroom with steam shower, rainfall shower, body jets, colour‐changing LED mood lighting, integrated audio and a slipper bath with thermostatic concealed tap. A double Villeroy & Boch double vanity to complete the suite.
Two further generously proportioned bedrooms are served by a stylish bath/shower room with Villeroy & Boch fittings and an Insignia rainfall shower with body jets, integrated audio and mood lighting.

Second Floor

The second floor provides two further additional bedrooms, and a spacious hobby room, all with extensive built‐in storage. Also a substantial store room measuring over 26 ft x 16 ft which offers excellent potential to create an eighth bedroom, subject to any necessary consents.

Outbuildings

Connected to the house via a covered walkway is a large double garage, a single garage, workshop, garden store with two separate WC facilities. Together with a sizeable glass‐covered double car port this presents excellent potential for conversion into a substantial self‐contained annex or office, subject to the usual planning permissions. With an additional double garage a large summer house and numerous wooden storage sheds and numerous hardstanding area’s.

Grounds

The gardens and grounds are a major feature and well laid out giving some fine views from the house which, being near the centre of the estate gives nice vista’s all round. The land includes three grass paddocks, recently re‐fenced for equestrian use, with two additional secure gated road entrances allowing access without disturbing the main residence. Facilities include a two large hardstanding area's, field shelters and a tack storage sheds. No public access or footpaths everything is completely private.
Around four acres of formal landscaped gardens surround the house and are both deer and dog proof enabling dogs to roam freely and securely around the grounds, complemented by a grass tennis court, summer house, greenhouse, rose gardens and established flowerbeds. The mature woodland has six gated entrances, service tracks and rides which provides tranquil walks and great horse rides and is home to abundant wildlife, including herds of friendly wild deer.

Location

Occupying an exceptional setting in the South Downs national Park, High View Manor occupies an elevated position in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, enjoying excellent natural light throughout the seasons and spectacular sunsets. The property sits in beautiful private secluded grounds yet within a few minutes drive to thriving villages or town centres, Pulborough 4.1 miles, Petworth 5.2 miles, Arundel lies around 8 miles distant. For all your everyday shopping needs, which includes banks, cafe's, speciality shops and a Waitrose supermarket whilst for more comprehensive shopping and the historic market town of Midhurst is only around 11.5m away or Chichester 14.2miles,

London 57 miles, Gatwick Airport 27 miles, Heathrow Airport 50 miles, and Shoreham Airport is only 40 minutes away and offers both private jet or helicopter travel.

By train Pulborough and Billingshurst both have a direct service to London Victoria and take around 80 minutes and London Bridge 79 minutes.

Excellent local schools Dorset house 1.8 miles away, Midhurst Rother College, Lancing College, Christ’s Hospital School and Seaford College.

Sports aficionados can enjoy golf at West Sussex Golf Club, Goodwood or Cowdray, show jumping at Hickstead, Polo at Cowdray Park and Sailing and water sports at Chichester harbour, Bosham and the Itchenor, Paddleboarding in Pulborough, and lovely sandy beaches at West Wittering located around 22 miles away.
(All distances and times are approximate)

Property Ownership Information

Tenure

Freehold

Council Tax Band

G

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