Top Road, Hooe

**Gude Price £1,200,000 - £1,300,000**
A superbly presented traditional style home, significantly enhanced by the current owner and featuring an impressive Orangery. Set within beautiful mature gardens and grounds of 3.4 acres, including a paddock, a range of useful outbuildings and a swimming pool.

Brickyard Farm Cottage was built in the late 1990’s in a traditional style with brick and tile hung elevations beneath a pitched tiled roof. The property is stylishly presented with great attention to detail, and quality materials throughout. There is sealed unit double glazing and oil-fired central heating.
The main features of the property include:
• Oak front door with glazed panels to generous reception hall with oak flooring, panelling to dado height and oak staircase to first floor with cupboards beneath; fitted cloaks cupboard and utility cupboard. Cloakroom with WC and circular Fired Earth hand basin with cupboards below.
• The drawing room is triple aspect and has a stone fireplace with slate hearth fitted with a wood burning stove; there is herringbone Karndean flooring with four divisions of underfloor heating and wooden panelling to dado rail height.
• Opening through to the superb orangery with large central glazed atrium. Window seat with useful drawers beneath, and deep windows with double opening glazed doors providing a wonderful outlook over the courtyard, ornamental pond and gardens beyond. Two vertical adjustable floor to ceiling enclosed bookcases.
• The dining room is double aspect with a square bay window to the front. The excellent study is comprehensively fitted with quality oak cupboards and glass-fronted bookshelves, and has an attractive outlook over the terrace and ornamental pond.
• The bespoke kitchen has Karndean flooring and a 1½ bowl stainless steel sink unit inset into granite work surfaces with drainer to the side. There is an extensive range of cupboards and drawers including fitted dishwasher, bin storage, larder cupboards. Island unit with granite worktop with built-in microwave and Siemens oven beneath. Four-oven electric Aga with two-ring Calor gas hob to the side and extractor above. Eye-level units and recess designed for large American-style fridge freezer. Plumbing for dishwasher.
• Door to utility room comprehensively fitted with stainless steel sink unit inset into granite work surfaces with plumbing and space for washing machine and drying machine. Range of eye-level cupboards and further storage cupboards, heated boot cupboard and a glazed stable door to the side courtyard.
• Half turn oak staircase to the spacious first floor landing with airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder.
• Master bedroom 1 is comprehensively fitted with bespoke cupboards, drawers, wardrobes and built-in dressing table with mirror. Luxurious en suite bathroom with Laura Ashley rolltop bath with mixer taps and shower attachment, tiled double shower cubicle, WC, wash basin with cupboards below and mirror-fronted medicine cupboard above; heated towel rail and herringbone Karndean flooring.
• Guest bedroom 2 with en suite bathroom comprising panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps, shower attachment and an additional shower head above, WC, pedestal wash basin.
• Bedroom 3 has a lovely outlook over the gardens and an en suite bathroom with a panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps, shower attachment and additional shower head above, WC, and pedestal wash basin. Bedroom 4 has a bank of wardrobes along one wall and an attractive outlook over the gardens and countryside. Bedroom 5 is currently utilised as a study but also has a built-in cupboard/wardrobe and fitted bookshelves and an outlook over the gardens and countryside.
• The family bathroom has a panel-enclosed bath with overhead shower attachment and drench head shower, WC, and twin basins inset into quartz surface with drawers beneath.

Outside
Brickyard Farm Cottage is approached from the lane through a timber six bar gate with pedestrian gate to the side onto a good-sized parking/turning area for a number of vehicles. The front garden is attractively landscaped with areas of lawn with clipped beech hedges, a colourful rose bed, mature trees including magnolia, and a wisteria.
To the side of this is a two-bay open-fronted oak-framed English Heritage cart lodge garage with adjoining storage room and log store.
From the front drive there are ornate double opening oak gates with feature wrought iron and stained glass which leads through to a large area of terracing with a greenhouse and cloche. There is an attractive high brick and flint wall and a smaller wall which retains a flower border with azaleas, rhododendrons and roses.
To the rear and adjoining the house is an Italian stone terrace with handmade well and beautiful rockery and contorted robinia tree.
Within this area is a fantastic 6’ koi carp pond with waterfalls and filtration system with an attractive backdrop of stone rockery and principally acers.
To the northeast of the house is an additional enclosed area which houses the oil tank, and an attractive brick building with slate roof and oak door which could lend itself to a number of uses but currently houses the filtration system to the koi carp pond.
The gardens can be approached from the terrace either via brick steps or by a gently sloping pathway which leads to areas of level lawns and beautiful herbaceous borders with clipped yew topiary, hedges and Trachycarpus fortunei. The borders contain a myriad of mature plants including roses, allium, geraniums, variegated sycamore, clematis, etc.
There are brick and paved pathways intersecting the lawn with an area set aside for principally rhododendrons and azaleas, with two magnolia trees. Within the lawn is a thoughtfully planted pinetum.
There are three unique follies, two of which are designed with areas of terracing for outside dining and entertaining, and one of which has a barbecue area, slate shelving with power points beneath and above, and lighting.
Garden machinery/implement store, an attractive building of block construction clad in oak and faced with reclaimed bricks beneath a slate roof, with light, power and water connected, with a butler sink and double opening oak doors to the side and single door to the front. Lean-to log store to the side.
Discreetly tucked within the garden and sheltered by brick walls is the heated swimming pool with hydraulic cover, inset into paved surround with rural views. There is subtle lighting and power points, and the pool is heated by a combination of solar panels and a Hydropro Inverter. Attractive brick and oak pool house, weatherboarded beneath a pitch slate roof, housing the swimming pool plant equipment.
At the foot of the garden a large soft fruit cage is discreetly tucked behind a rose hedge and beyond are three compost bays and a two-bay agricultural barn for tractor/machinery storage. Excellent workshop of part brick and weatherboard construction beneath a part slate and insulated roof with solar panels, divided into two areas with open fronted tractor store and a large lockable workshop with wi-fi, battery storage, double opening and single doors, light, power and water connected, concrete flooring, and fully insulated. This building is currently utilised as a working forge. To the front of the workshop is a good area of hardstanding.
Aluminium greenhouse and vegetable garden comprising a covered fruit cage and adjoining vegetable patch. To the front of this is an orchard with a selection of fruit trees, apples, pears, plums, and cobnuts.
There is also an area of paddock with triple bar post and rail fencing into two five bar gates.
In all about 3.4 acres.