For Sale9 Bedroom House in Garnet Drive, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN20 9AE£2,250,000
Property Type
House
Bedrooms
× 9
Bathrooms
× 5
Receptions
× 6
Tenure
Freehold
Price
£2,250,000
Key Features
- Substantial long standing family house, nicely positioned within approximately 3 miles of Eastbourne town centre and seafront and approximately 1.5 miles of Hampden Park train station.
- Architect designed 1930's house, with about 5056 sq ft of principal accommodation, plus a later pavilion wing for the indoor swimming pool, self contained 3 bed cottage and one bed flat.
- Secluded gated, park like grounds of about 3 acres, with sea views from the front of the house across the town.
- Jevington within the South Downs reached within approximately 4 miles by car or approximately 2.6 miles on foot, using the Bridle path across the Willingdon Golf Club behind the house.
- Tennis Court and gym building, garage, car port and stores.
- Private Schools include Eastbourne College and Bedes in Upper Dicker, with further schools in Brighton, including Brighton College and Roedean, as well as LOG in Lewes.
- Glyndbourne Opera about 3.5 miles.
- Alfriston about 7.2 miles.
- Trains from Hampden Park to London Victoria from about 1 hour 30 minutes.
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Description
An impressive 1930's family house, nicely set within its grounds and well positioned for the town as well as the South Downs countryside.
Set within just over three acres of park like gardens and grounds, Ratton Wood is a very special house in the Eastbourne area, benefitting from a town and a country style location, adjacent to the Willingdon Golf Course and with bridle path access to the South Downs National Park. Also, the house offers considerable accommodation, capable of supporting a large or extended family, or long-term guests, as well as some live-in staff.
Designed in the early 1930s in the Neo-Georgian style by Sir Edward Guy Dawber (a former President of The Royal Institute of British Architects and the Council for the Preservation of Rural England), the house commands views over Eastbourne to the sea and has been in the present family ownership for many years. The fine, traditional accommodation has been subject to some recent and sympathetic modernisation, with great care taken in preserving important detail and the original style. However, additional works to take this along further will be anticipated by an incoming purchaser.
An Indoor swimming pool pavilion wing was added some years ago, providing an impressive, spacious facility and enhancing the overall style of the property viewed from the extensive gardens and grounds. The two independent annexes add to the flexibility of the accommodation overall, while the principal accommodation is generous in proportion and scale, with a well-judged, central reception hall providing access to the main ground floor reception rooms and an impressive, gently rising period style staircase, leading up to all the bedrooms.
Outside, the house benefits from a long gated drive and just over 3 acres of gardens and grounds afford an exceptional fine, park like setting, with extensive lawned areas of garden surrounding the house and extending into mature woodland, comprising mainly beech and a number of other deciduous and coniferous trees. There is also a kitchen garden and an orchard. An ornament Lily Pond flanks the side elevation and a wide, west facing rear terrace commands a lovely garden aspect towards the adjacent Willingdon golf course, with the South Downs evident in the immediate distance beyond. Historically the owners kept a pony here with bridle paths accessed nearby.
The recently built gym building is fitted with air conditioning and sits overlooking the newly refurbished tennis court, which is marked out for a variety of other sports too.
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