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30 acres, Horselunges Manor, East Sussex
For Sale - Guide Price £4,500,000

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• Grade I Listed Moated Manor House
• Excellent secondary accommodation
• Main house 7,414 square feet
• Good range of outbuildings
• Garaging for 8 cars
• Beautiful gardens
• About 30 acres
• Polegate station about 6 miles

Horselunges Manor
This exceptional Grade I Listed moated Manor House dates from the 15th century, and is rich in medieval architecture having in recent times been restored to a high standard. There is mains gas-fired central heating with separate zoned areas run by two boilers.
In the 1970s/1980s Peter Grant, the manager of Led Zeppelin, lived in this wonderful house, and for the last 30 years Horselunges Manor has been the inspirational and much loved family home of the present owners.

The house, as it is today, dates from about 1408 and was built by John Devenish or his son, but reduced in size in the early 16th century. The Manor of Horselunges passed into the possession of the Devenish family, who, before he died in 1477, asked to be buried in the chancel of nearby Hellingly parish church.
A moat, 30’ wide and fed by a natural spring, surrounded Horselunges in defence of this heavily timbered house of magnificent proportions. With an interior of exceptional grandeur, it had elaborate wood panelling and carving that reflected the status of the Devenish family.

There is an attached single storey self contained annexed together with a self-contained flat over the garage block and a separate self-contained single storey cottage.

The farm buildings include a Sussex-style Barn 48'3 x 46'7 (max), a timber-framed farm building and further storage barn.

The Gardens and Grounds
Horselunges Manor is approached through brick piers and electronically operated heavy wrought iron entrance gates with a gravelled drive of some length culminating in a large parking area in front of the garage. This driveway is enhanced by areas of grassland planted with wild flowers, a wide selection of specimen trees and shrubs, and three ponds.
The moat surrounds the formal area of garden which to the east is part wall-enclosed clad with espalier fruit trees, and creates a most wonderful setting to this impressive house. There are sweeping lawns, criss-crossed by flagstone paths, flower and rose borders, parterre of clipped box hedges, ornamental trees and shrubs. Adjacent to the kitchen is a greenhouse and raised beds for vegetables.
On the southern side of the garden is the heated swimming pool 45’ x 20’ (in need of updating) set in a paved surround and an adjacent brick and tile pavilion 39’ x 10’ providing a sheltered sitting area, changing room with shower, basin and WC, heat exchange unit, filter unit and pump.
The remaining grounds provide a delightful backdrop with two small paddocks, areas of lawn and rough grass, established trees and Spring bulbs – in all some 5.5 acres.

The Farmland
This extends to about 24.5 acres and is currently laid to pasture with woodland shaws. The boundaries comprise hedges or drainage channels and the subsoil varies between Weald clay to the south and east, Upper Tunbridge sand to the north and alluvium close to the river. The Cuckmere River and its drainage channels are all deep and well dredged. There is about 450 yards of double bank to the Cuckmere River.

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