Charming barn in spectacular rural location.DescriptionApproached over a private track to a winding drive and surrounded by rolling farmland, High Buildings Barn is an incredibly characterful property offering versatile accommodation with an emphasis on open living spaces. The centrepiece is a fabulous 59’ reception with vaulted beams, large floor to ceiling windows overlooking the grounds and beyond to neighbouring pasture. On the ground floor is a lovely kitchen with a dining area leading through to a cosy sitting room. Complementing the kitchen is a separate utility room with a downstairs shower room and completing the ground floor accommodation is a bedroom with fine exposed timbers benefiting from an en suite shower room and WC. The first floor of the barn has two further bedrooms which are served by a centrally positioned bathroom.Directly adjacent to the barn is a substantial building offering ample storage, workshop and living opportunities. The central courtyard is a lovely sheltered space with mature trees offering shade, ideal for al-fresco entertaining and a series of additional outbuildings comprising stabling provide options to adapt (subject to any required consents).The setting of High Buildings Barn is of particular note, areas of garden with productive vegetable patches, interspersed with mature trees and level paddocks give a sense of openness with a glorious backdrop of the rolling Sussex landscape.LocationBalls Cross is a charming spot surrounded by arable farmland with period houses and cottages dotted throughout. High Buildings Barn is located on the edge of Balls Cross and the popular Stag public house forms the heart of the hamlet. Within a couple of miles the larger village of Kirdford is easily accessible. Kirdford is located on the edge of the South Downs National Park approximately four miles to the north east of Petworth and three miles to the north west of Wisborough Green. The village is one of only a few such villages in this part of West Sussex to boast a thriving local store that is well supported by the local community along with two pubs and a church. Just four miles away at Petworth there is a good selection of local shops for daily needs, restaurants, speciality shops, pubs and the numerous antique dealers for which the town is well known.At Pulborough there are two major supermarkets and a main line station (15 minute drive) offering a regular service to Gatwick Airport and London Victoria. Haslemere station (9 miles north) provides a frequent service to London Waterloo taking from 49 minutes. To the south, the major centres of Arundel and Chichester offer between them a full range of shopping, leisure and cultural amenities such as the Festival Theatre and the Pallant House Gallery.All distances and journey times are approximateSquare Footage: 2,941 sq ftDirectionsWhat3words- ///orchestra.delay.recruiterAdditional InfoAgent note: A Pre-Application was submitted during 2021 for the restoration of the barn and relocation and replacement of existing residential building. Please contact the selling agents for further information.Horsham District Council, council tax band, G.

Gorehill House is believed to date from 1872 and was commissioned by the then manager of the Leconfield Estate, Henry Upton, and designed by the noted Victorian architect Sir Norman Shaw. A substantial Victorian villa, Gorehill House benefits from beautifully proportioned family accommodation over three floors with many features one would expect from a property of this era including generously proportioned rooms, excellent ceiling heights and large windows allowing the property to be flooded with natural light throughout the day.The principal reception rooms – the drawing room, sitting room and library – are located on the south elevation and all have access immediately on to the sun terraces beyond and look south over the surrounding countryside.The property benefits from some beautiful period features including stone mullioned windows, original flooring, the staircase, stone and timber flooring as well as many original fireplaces.Gorehill House offers wonderful flexibility of accommodation with the bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchenette to the top floor providing an excellent self-contained suite if required.The property offers an incoming purchaser a wonderful opportunity to extend or reconfigure subject to the usual consents. We understand that the property benefited from a planning consent, now expired, to extend on the eastern elevation, adding large kitchen and a spa facility featuring a sauna and indoor swimming pool. Another previous consent allowed for the coach house to be converted into a two-bedroom guest cottage.Outside, the property is accessed via old wrought iron gates with a formal driveway winding through the grounds to a turning area providing parking for several cars and leading in turn to the front door, kitchen courtyard, walled garden, triple garage and paddock land beyond. The grounds immediately surrounding the house are primarily laid to lawn with some established shrub borders and wonderful sun terraces lead off the southern elevation, taking advantage of the elevated position with exceptional views south over the surrounding West Sussex countryside. The property also features a flat area of lawn, once home to a Victorian lawn tennis court, which is a perfect children's play area or croquet lawn. Further to this are the orchard, a belt of woodland and three paddocks with stables.Of interest, the courtyard to the rear of the property provides wonderful entertaining space during the summer months and is sheltered by the coach house and walled garden. This building is currently used as machinery and garden storage but would provide an excellent building suitable for use as a guest cottage subject to the usual consents.Byworth 0.5 miles, Petworth 0.75 miles, Midhurst 7 miles, Pulborough 5 miles (London Bridge 75 minutes, London Victoria 70 minutes), Haslemere 12 miles (London Waterloo 56 minutes), Chichester 15 miles, London 54 miles, Gatwick Airport 28 miles, Heathrow Airport 48 miles(All distances and times are approximate)

With far reaching southerly views, in the heart of the South Downs National Park, a substantial Sir Norman Shaw designed Victorian villa offering adaptable family accommodation plus equestrian facilities.