Copsale, Nr. Horsham

Property Details: - Type: Detached house - Bedrooms: 5 - Bathrooms: 1

Agent: HJ Burt - Steyning Phone: 01903 906645

39.33 ACRES: New House Farm offers a great opportunity to purchase an adaptable grassland farm occupying an unspoilt and accessible rural location only 4 miles from Horsham town centre. The farm offers good potential for mixed farming, equestrian, recreational or conservation uses and along with the redevelopment scope to the barns (all subject to any required consents). In addition to the good size farmhouse of early 20th Century origins with later additions there is a good range of farm buildings with further potential as well as the rolling pastureland with the farm as a whole extending to c. 39.33 acres (15.92 Ha). A further c. 14.38 acres (5.82 Ha) of adjacent pastureland across the lane could potentially be available for purchase by separate negotiation. <br/><br/>The farmhouse includes mellow external elevations of brick with part tile hanging under a clay tiled pitched roof with decorative club tile courses and with replacement uPVC double glazed windows. There are generally good ceiling heights and a number of windows from which to enjoy the outlook over the farm plus to the South Downs in the distance from the first floor. Having been in the same family's occupation since the occupying farming tenants bought the farm from the neighbouring Sedgwick Park Estate in around 1959, the farm buildings were redeveloped in the 1960s and the farmhouse was later extended by the next generation. <br/><br/>The house now offers great potential for an incoming purchaser to further personalise, modernise and improve to their own requirements and with flexible living space including the farmhouse kitchen with useful utility room off, study, dining room to large extended living room with conservatory off and five bedrooms and bathroom to the first floor, each with a good rural outlook.<br/><br/>The farmhouse sits in a good size and attractive garden mainly lying on the South and West sides and including old privy, kitchen garden area with greenhouse and two garden sheds. Beyond the garage and driveway are the range of mixed farm buildings with associated yard areas including a pair of stables at the front and an old cubicle building to the rear. The principal building comprises the Tyler concrete portal framed barn and adjacent to this is the former dairy milking parlour building. Both these buildings are subject to a current application for a Class Q conversion of the buildings into 7 freehold 3-bed houses and being 2-storey to the main building and single storey to the old parlour. See Horsham District Council planning portal ref: DC/26/1364. <br/><br/>The attractive pastureland has been sheep grazed over recent years and prior to that was farmed by the vendors' family with a mixed beef suckler herd after their prize winning Friesian dairy herd was dispersed in the 1991. The principal enclosure stretches to the West and gently slopes down to a pretty ghyll with woodland rew at its edge. To the South-West side is a mixed broadleaf woodland copse of c. 3.75 acres and with a continuing tree line to the Southern boundary with its separate field gate onto the lane.<br/><br/>Council Tax Band: G<br/>Tenure: Freehold