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A beautifully designed first floor country house apartment with stunning distant Westerly views. The Grade II Listed Manor House is situated in 13 acres of beautifully landscaped private grounds which are owned by the residents. This stunning duplex apartment retains many original features including dramatic high ceilings, a stunning ornamental fireplace in the reception room and full height stone mullion framed windows to the front including lovely stained glass leaded lights. Garage and parking. No on-going chain.
Designed by renowned architect John Norton and built in 1880 on a site which dates back to the 13th century, Summers Place was formerly a Country House which subsequently became a Convent and was more recently Sotheby Auction House's HQ. Restored by Berkeley Homes in 2008, this magnificent Grade II Listed building is approached through a tree lined avenue and is surrounded by a 13 acre communal grounds and the West façade reacts beautifully to the sunset. No. 10 has been cleverly formed from principal bedrooms of the original Manor House and features the hallmark quality upon which Berkeley have built their reputation. Quality finishes abound and include a bespoke Alno fully integrated kitchen, luxurious Villeroy & Boch sanitaryware and Hansgrohe AXOR fittings along with an energy conscious pressurised hot water system and gas heating (metered L.P.G.).
LOCATION: Summers Place is located about one mile from the thriving village of Billingshurst. Close to both the South Downs and the coast, but also just 25 minutes from the M23 which provides fast access to London, the motorway network, London Gatwick and London Heathrow airports. The railway station at Billingshurst offers connections to London Victoria/London Bridge the journey into the city taking about 75 minutes. The village has excellent shopping facilities which have been boosted by the arrival of Lidl, Morrisons and an array of other outlets, along with restaurants, pubs, Churches with leisure and sporting facilities. There are excellent state and private schools in the vicinity.
OUTSIDE
There are beautifully maintained communal grounds including a large formal lawn with gravelled pathways leading to various other parts, a more informal lower lawn, etc. The communal gardens extend in total to approximately 13 acres.
GARAGE & PARKING
There is a Garage situated in the nearby compound and an allocated parking space close by. There is also visitor parking bays.
IMPORTANT PROPERTY INFORMATION
Tenure - Leasehold, 125 years from 2009
Service/Estates Charge - £4134.60 for the present financial year (1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025)
Ground Rent - £620.27 Managing Agents: Courtney Green Block and Estate Management Ltd
Council Tax - Band E
Agent's Note: We strongly advise any intending purchaser to verify the above with their legal representative prior to committing to a purchase. The above information has been supplied to us by our clients/managing agents in good faith, but we may not have necessarily had sight of any formal documentation relating to the above.
Referral Fees: Courtney Green routinely refer prospective purchasers to Nepcote Financial Ltd who may offer to arrange insurance and/or mortgages. Courtney Green may be entitled to receive 20% of any commission received by Nepcote Financial Ltd.
NOTE: These particulars are intended only as a guide to prospective Buyers/Tenants to enable them to decide whether to make further enquiries with a view to taking up negotiations but they are otherwise not intended to be relied upon in any way for any purpose whatsoever and accordingly neither their accuracy nor the continued availability of the property is in any way guaranteed and they are furnished on the express understanding that neither the Agents nor the Vendors are to be or become under any liability or claim in respect of their contents. Any prospective Buyer/Tenant must satisfy himself by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of the particulars contained.