Copsale, Nr. Horsham

Property Details: - Type: Detached house - Bedrooms: 8 - Bathrooms: 3

Agent: HJ Burt - Steyning Phone: 01903 906645

<strong>EQUESTRIAN & LAND: </strong>Marelands is an historic Grade II Listed country house believed to be originally of 16th C. or earlier origin with sensitive additions in the last Century to offer sizeable family living spread over two floors. The external elevations of the handsome house include a mixture of exposed timber framing and rendered panelling, brickwork and part tile hanging and under a primarily Horsham stone covered roof but with clay tiled roofs to the rear and with substantial chimney stacks and leaded-light windows. The house sits in a lovely mature garden with feature pond and then with adaptable pasture land to the North and West served by a range of stables, pole barns and portal framed barn. The property as a whole extends to approaching 12 acres and offers a great opportunity for a new custodian to sensitively improve and enhance the house, its outbuildings and land in its good rural setting. The property is also available for sale in two lots. <br/><br/>The extensive accommodation is full of character with a welcoming reception hall with cloakroom off and snug/sitting room with fireplace, door leading to outside. The dining room also includes a fireplace whilst the double aspect drawing room is a fine principal reception room overlooking the garden and pond and with fireplace to one end. Off the rear hall and principal staircase is a study and the ground floor is completed by a kitchen/breakfast room with rear hall with adjacent stores, family room, boiler room and utility room.<br/><br/>The first floor may be reached by two main staircases with the rear hall leading to a landing and thence to the double aspect principal bedroom with a good range of fitted wardrobes and ensuite bathroom. Adjoining this is either an interconnecting dressing room or further bedroom with fitted wardrobes, family bathroom and three further bedrooms and cloakroom to the front and main part of the house. To the rear of the building and with third/rear staircase are three smaller bedrooms and a shower room offering scope for adaptation for an annexe or staff rear wing. The accommodation includes extensive exposed beams and timbers with a mixture of oak flooring or stone flagged floors, feature fireplaces and pretty leaded-light windows and all ready for an incoming purchaser to further modernise and improve to their own requirements and subject to all necessary consents. <br/><br/>Outside, the house is approached by a sweeping private carriage drive from Broadwater Lane terminating at the side of the house and thence leading to the stables and with parking and turning for a number of vehicles. The mature gardens and grounds surround the house provide a lovely setting with the principal feature being the very attractive pond lined by a mixture of specimen trees and shrubs with paths around including leading to hard tennis court to the South-East side. To the rear of the house is an L-shaped timber framed stable block including 8 boxes and store and with adjacent sand schooling area. <br/><br/>The pastureland includes fields to the North with timber pole barn and then a range of paddocks to the North-West also with frontage and access to Polecat Lane and including a 4-bay steel portal framed general purpose barn. The property as a whole extends to approximately 11.95 acres (4.83 Ha) and offers a wonderful opportunity for a dearly loved family home to be further improved and enhanced by an incoming purchaser to create an important and highly impressive country house and equestrian property.<br/><br/>The division of the property into two Lots is as shown on the appended plan:<br/><br/>LOT 1: The house, gardens, pond, tennis court, the stable yard and schooling area with this lot accessed off Broadwater Lane and extending to c. 2.89 acres (1.17 Ha).<br/>LOT 2: The steel portal framed barn plus pole barns and pasture land with twin lane frontage and gated access off Polecat Lane. Extending to c. 9.06 acres (3.67 Ha).<br/><br/>Council Tax Band: H<br/>Tenure: Freehold