4 bed country house for sale

Lingfield, Surrey RH7

Location

The property is located on the outskirts of picturesque Lingfield village. Lingfield offers local shops, pubs, the Church of St Peter and St Paul, the renowned Lingfield Park Racecourse, and mainline station with links to London Victoria and London Bridge. Chartham Park, an exceptional golf and fitness club set in beautiful countryside, is 3 miles away. The town of Edenbridge with a range of shops including Waitrose and a leisure centre is also about 3 miles away. The property is well placed for the M25 (junction 6 at Godstone) providing access to the National motorway network, Gatwick and Heathrow airports, the Channel Tunnel and the Kent Coast. There are numerous good schools in the area in both the state and independent sector including Lingfield College, Oxted School, Caterham and Hazelwood.

Main Residence

An attractive detached farmhouse with attractive part tile hung and part Tudor style elevations. The property was constructed in 1999 (subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition).

First Floor:

-Principle Bedroom – Ensuite Bathroom with white suite

-Three Further Bedrooms

-Family Shower Room – white suite

-Landing

Ground Floor:

-Impressive Reception/Dining Hall – double doors to terrace

-Cloakroom

-Double Aspect Living Room – inglenook style fireplace with woodburning stove, door to garden

-Double Aspect Kitchen-Breakfast room – bespoke hand made matching base & wall cupboards, door to garden

-Utility Room – Central heating boiler, door to garden

Outside

-Long Private Driveway

-Double Garage

-Cart Lodge

-Lawned Gardens to all sides

-Gravel parking area

-Wonderful Views over own land and adjacent countryside

Extensive Farm Buildings (potential for alternative uses, subject to planning consent)

-4 bay concrete frame barn

-Adjacent 4 bay steel frame barn

-Further 4 bay steel frame barn

-Small block building

-3 bay pole barn

-Small enclosed single bay pole barn

-Range of three large barns

-Small pole barn lean-to

-2 bay pole barn

-Small single brick garage

The Land

-About 111 acres of permanent pasture divided into useful sized fields – most with water supply

-Borders the Eden Brook

-Bridge across the river serves two blocks of land (A right of way through Park Farm, Haxted Road, provides an alternative access to the eastern land)

-Soil type mainly loam for grass - most of the land is grade 3 (Ministry of Agriculture) and a corridor of grade 4 along the river. Some of the land is in a flood zone 3 area. In all, extending to about 112.91 acres (45.69 hectares)

Freehold

Double glazed windows and gas central heating to main residence. Council Tax Band G (house). Mains water, electricity, gas. Private drainage.

Planning Consent for the farmhouse states:- “The occupation of the dwelling shall be limited to a person solely or mainly working, or last working in the locality in agriculture, or in forestry, or a widow or widower of such a person, and to any resident dependents”.