5 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Detached period home understood to date from the 1920s
- Attractive period features including high ceilings, tall windows and open fireplaces
- Spacious modern kitchen and adjoining breakfast room with bi fold doors to the garden
- Mature west facing garden extending to about 180 feet
- Central location with direct access to Clair Park
- Haywards Heath station 0.6 of a mile by car or 0.3 of a mile’s walk
- EPC Rating = D
Description
Understood to date from the 1920s, 49 Oathall Road (also known as Little Thurlow) is a detached period home, ideally located in a central location in Haywards Heath, within easy reach of the town’s many amenities and less than a third of a mile’s walk of the station. The house’s architectural style is typical of the era, with handsome red brick elevations under a steeply gabled roof, and attractive period features including high ceilings, tall windows with deep sills, picture and dado rails, and a number of open fireplaces. In 2011, the house was extended to the rear in keeping with the design of the original house, significantly enlarging the house with the addition of a modern kitchen and adjoining breakfast room, and two en suite bedrooms over.
The well-proportioned accommodation is arranged over two floors and extends to nearly 3,000 square feet. The front door opens to an entrance porch from which a further door, with elegant stained glass panel, opens to the entrance hall. The hall sets the scene for the house, with its tessellated tiled floor and sweeping staircase rising to the first floor. There are two formal reception rooms, both with open fireplaces; the sitting room is dual aspect and has an inset woodburner.
Glazed double doors open from the inner hall to the kitchen, which is has bi-fold doors opening to the garden and is fitted with a good range of pale blue shaker style units and display cupboards, with a central island, black granite worktops, a number of integrated appliances and space for a larder-style refrigerator. The kitchen is open to a versatile breakfast room, which also has bi-fold doors to the garden, as well as ample space for a table and chairs and a fitted bench seat with storage. The kitchen is served by the adjoining utility room, and a cloakroom with WC completes the ground floor.
There are five bedrooms on the first floor, three with pretty cast iron feature fireplaces. The two bedrooms to the rear of the house overlook the garden and have en suite bath or shower rooms; the remaining three bedrooms share a family bathroom.
Outside
Number 49 is set well back from Oathall Road, screened by a mature oak, elegant bay trees and a low brick wall topped with wrought iron railings. Irons gates open to a gravel driveway, edged by mature laurel and rhododendron, which provides ample parking for several cars and leads to the attached single garage.
There is gated access at both sides of the house to the west-facing rear garden, which slopes up gently away from the house, extending in length to about 180 feet. There is a paved terrace next to the house from which steps rise to the lawn, which is edged by deep shrub orders and mature trees, giving a good degree of privacy. In all, about 0.45 of an acre.
Location
49 Oathall Road is located in the centre of the popular Mid Sussex town of Haywards Heath, backing on to Clair Park and ideally positioned for the town centre, mainline station and schools. A footpath immediately to the south of the house gives direct access to the park.
Haywards Heath is a thriving commuter town, with a range of High Street and independent shops, restaurants, schools and a leisure centre. The town and its surrounding villages offer a range of leisure activities at youth and adult levels, including football, rugby, cricket, dance and local theatre. There is golf at Haywards Heath, Lindfield, Mid Sussex and Piltdown, and many other courses across the county, racing at Goodwood, Lingfield and Plumpton, and sailing at Ardingly reservoir and the coast. There are many footpaths and bridle paths across the South Downs and surrounding countryside, as well as riding on Ashdown Forest by permit.
Spa and country house hotels include Ockenden Manor, Alexander House, Gravetye Manor and South Lodge. Lewes and the City of Brighton and Hove offer theatres, cinemas, shopping and restaurants, and there is the world renowned Opera House at Glyndebourne.
Mainline Rail Service: Haywards Heath station is 0.6 of a mile by car or 0.3 of a mile (seven minutes’ walk) on foot, offering services to London Bridge/Victoria/St. Pancras International, with journey times from 42 minutes.
The A/M23 provides access to the South coast and connections to Gatwick airport, the M25 and national motorway network. There is a good range of schools in the area, including Warden Park Academy (Primary and Secondary), Lindfield Primary Academy, St Joseph’s Catholic primary, Oathall Community College, Cumnor House, Great Walstead, Ardingly College, Hurstpierpoint College, Brighton College and Burgess Hill Girls.
All distances and journey times are approximate; walking times taken from Google Maps.
Square Footage: 2,982 sq ft
Acreage: 0.45 Acres
Additional Info
Services: Gas fired central heating. All mains services. Fibre broadband to the house is provided.
Outgoings: Mid Sussex District Council. Tax band G.
Photographs taken: September 2024.
Cladding: This property may have cladding. The property is under six floors so any cladding may not have been tested. Purchasers should make enquiries about the external wall system of the property, if it has cladding and if it is safe or if there are interim measures in place.
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