Meadow Cottage is a charming period cottage with red brick and tiled elevations outside, and splendid original details inside, including exposed timber beams, leaded windows and brick-built fireplaces, alongside stylish and modern fittings.

The ground floor has a comfortable sitting room with tiled flooring, windows to the front and rear and an impressive open fireplace. There is also a study for home working and a dining room with French doors opening onto the rear garden. The kitchen has modern units with black granite worktops and integrated appliances, including a double oven and a gas hob.

The first floor has three wellpresented bedrooms, two doubles and a single, and a family bathroom with over-bath shower. The detached studio, with self contained kitchen and shower room, provides additional accommodation.

There is planning permission for a substantial single storey rear extension including to extend the kitchen and utility, family room and fourth bedroom. For further information visit planning.org.uk SDNP/21/04022/LDP.

Outside

The property is accessed via a long driveway, which opens into a parking area at the front of the cottage and provides access to the annexe and a further gravel driveway with parking for several vehicles. The south-west facing rear garden has paved terracing, extensive lawns and a variety of mature trees and established shrubs and hedgerow. There is also a store and shed, providing plenty of garden storage.

Situation

The property lies in Fernhurst village, in the north-west corner of West Sussex within the South Downs National Park, which boasts an idyllic village green overlooked by a public house, a Parish Church, pavilion, cricket green and primary school. The village provides shops for most day-to-day needs including a post office and chemist. More comprehensive shopping and leisure facilities are available in nearby Haslemere which offers extensive quality shopping facilities, together with a good selection of restaurants, cafés, pubs and bars and excellent leisure amenities including a tennis club and a leisure centre. Communications links are excellent: Haslemere station provides regular trains into London Waterloo and the M3 gives easy access both to the south coast and to connections with the M25 road network giving further access both to Heathrow and Gatwick Airports and to central London.

The general area is renowned for its excellent range of state schools in addition to the village’s Fernhurst Primary School including Shottermill Infant and Junior Schools, Woolmer Hill School and Midhurst Rother College while nearby independent schools include Highfield and Brookham Schools, St. Ives, Amesbury, The Royal School and St. Edmund’s as well as King Edward’s, Aldro Prep School and Charterhouse.

Directions

From Strutt & Parker’s Haslemere office, turn onto Shepherd’s Hill and turn left to stay on Shepherd’s Hill (A286). Continue to follow the A286 into the village of Fernhurst, then turn right onto Vann Road. Turn left onto Hawksfold Lane East and you will find the entrance to the property on the left-hand side.