Detached house for sale in Top Road, Slindon BN18

Orchard House is a magnificent modern village house completed in 2017 by the current owners and finished to an extremely high specification. Being set in an exceptional location not only within the conservation area of Slindon Village, with the majority of the village houses being in the ownership of the National Trust, but also within the South Downs National Park Orchard House represents a rare and quite unique opportunity to own a 21st Century house within this historic village.

The owners worked closely with local architects to ensure the house was of a sympathetic design thus fitting into the local village environment beautifully. The classic Georgian style is accentuated by the flint elevations, an attractive vernacular feature of this region of West Sussex, being complimented by casement windows under a pitched slate tiles roof. Though of a traditional design the house has been installed with many modern features with a strong onus on efficiency including air recycling and underfloor heating coupled with integrated technology including the Control 4 Home Automation system and CCTV.

The extremely well appointed accommodation is arranged over three floors. Steps lead to the elegant front door which opens into a welcoming central reception hall off which extend the principle reception rooms and elegant staircase leading to a galleried first floor landing, bedrooms and bathrooms. The area is flooded with natural light from the large sky lantern to the roof. The main drawing rooms benefits from double aspect windows and a feature fireplace with twin doors opening into the formal dining room having doors to the rear garden terrace. The home office is located off the reception hall as is the main cloakroom and glazed doors lead into the beautiful fitted kitchen and breakfast room with doors to the rear garden terrace.
Stairs from the kitchen lead down to the purpose-built basement and into the fitted secondary kitchen/dining room incorporating a significant walk in wine cellar. Sling doors lead to the substantial boot/cloak/dog room with door giving access to the outside via twin steps to the front and back of the house. A central reception hall has a staircase leading back to the ground floor and off the hall is a shower room, music/family room with a front aspect window, a studio, utility/laundry room and boiler room.

To the first floor the attractive galleried landing leads to the beautifully presented bedrooms, the principal bedroom benefits from a dressing room with fitted wardrobes and ensuite bathroom. The two main guest bedrooms have ensuite facilities and the main bathroom serves two further guest bedrooms. The principal bedroom and main guest bedroom enjoy far reaching views towards the coast.

Outside

Orchard House well position in its 1.5 acre grounds being in a slightly elevated position and accessed through twin electrically operated bespoke wooden gates having a keypad intercom security system. The attractive resin bonded gravel drive sweeps up towards the house and is flanked by well stocked attractive shrub, rose and flower borders opening to a large vehicle parking area adjoining the brick double garage.

The gardens and grounds offer a lovely diverse mix of formal garden and woodland area with the house sitting centrally within the grounds. Extending along the rear of the house is a large terrace area opening to a lovely circular ‘alfresco dining’ area bordered by a redbrick wall and beautifully planted flower beds giving a lovely backdrop and enhanced with an outside sound system. Steps from the terrace rise to the main raised formal lawn where twin bespoke garden benches are located made from trees from the garden. The lawn area extends into the woodland located to the top of the grounds. Paths have been made within the woodland area giving pleasant areas to walk in and lead to the screened wooden compost bins to the top of the grounds. Within the woodland is a significant circular ‘stumpery’ forming the backdrop of a further attractive woodland ‘alfresco area’ with a central firepit feature, a delight during the warmer summer evenings. A charming orchard has been created to the side of the house and from the front of the house a further area of lawn extends towards a magnificent Holm Oak situated on the front corner boundary. In all these delightful gardens and grounds extend to approximately 1.5 acres.

Situation

Slindon is arguably one of the most beautiful villages in West Sussex retaining its charm and unspoilt character, its many brick and flint houses are surrounded by beech woods, farms and open downland. This delightful property is one of the few privately owned houses located in this historic village. The village, with the majority of houses now owned by the National Trust, lies between the cathedral city of Chichester and the historic castle town of Arundel and is set within the beautiful South Downs National Park. It is in close proximity to Forestry Commission woodland and benefits from miles of attractive country walks and bridle paths. There is a parish church, a Roman Catholic church, a village hall, cricket club, primary school and a popular village shop with café, which is run by local residents. The nearby villages of Barnham, Eastergate and Fontwell all provide a good selection of local shops and amenities, whilst Arundel, Chichester and Brighton are within easy travelling distance by car, each offering comprehensive shopping facilities, cafés, restaurants and cultural attractions. There is also a good choice of rail links to London and Gatwick airport from either Barnham, Arundel or Amberley. Numerous sporting and recreational activities in the area include horse racing at Goodwood and Fontwell, polo at Cowdray Park, several golf courses, a private country club at Goodwood with modern gym and indoor swimming pool and sailing at Littlehampton and Chichester harbours. The South Downs National Park boasts beautiful countryside providing many outdoor pursuits such as walking, riding or mountain biking.