Swife Lane, Broad Oak

**Guide Price £750,000 - £775,000**
An attractive, well-presented detached character house, updated in recent years. Predominately ground floor accommodation. Charming cottage-style gardens and off-road parking in a delightful, sought-after semi-rural location. Excellent shopping available in Heathfield and main line station at Stonegate.

Old Oak Cottage is a well presented detached character property, principally single
storey offering much charm and forms a very comfortable family home with oil-fired
central heating and some sealed unit double glazed windows. It was originally the
coach house for the large oast house adjacent.
The elevations are painted brick beneath a tiled roof.

The main features of the property include:
• Front door to the enclosed porch with space for boots and coats. Although this is the original front door the current owners do not use it as their entrance, preferring to enter via the kitchen/breakfast room.
• A part glazed door opens through to the spacious and very attractive dining/family room with exposed timbers, electric two-oven Aga, double glazed window, oak floor. This excellent space really does feel like the heart of the
house with most walls being painted brick with one clad in tongue and groove. There is also a useful understairs storage cupboard.
• From here a timber panelled doors opens to the delightful and well-proportioned sitting room which has a striking vaulted ceiling with exposed timbers. This room features painted brick walls and glazed double doors to the small front garden, double aspect with excellent natural light, oak floor and a wood burner set on a tiled hearth.
• The kitchen/breakfast room has a butler style sink with mixer taps and drainer, wooden working surfaces with cupboards and drawers beneath, wall cupboards above, electric Rangemaster cooker with two ovens, four rings and an overhead extractor, Hotpoint integrated dishwasher, plumbing for washing machine. This room also benefits from high quality oak flooring and currently serves as the owner’s main entrance, benefitting from a built-in bench seating area with space for coats and boots, flanked by further units with worktop and plumbing for tumble dryer.
• The principal bedroom is double aspect and has a shallow bay window, oak floor, former fireplace fitted with shelving and flanked by two wardrobe
cupboards. Adjacent is the half-panelled cloakroom with basin and WC.
• Bedroom 2 is a generous double bedroom, panelled to half height and has lovely farmland views to the front. Bedroom 3 is another comfortable bedroom with lovely views over the garden.
• The family bathroom is a bright double aspect room, with tongue and groove panelling to half height and has a freestanding rolltop bath with mixer taps and shower attachment, separate tiled and glazed walk-in shower cubicle, pedestal wash basin, WC, heated towel rail, oak flooring and a built-in storage cupboard.
• The first floor is approached by a staircase from the dining/family room rising to two attic rooms, one of which is currently used as a useful office in the eaves with a lovely outlook over the garden. The other large room offers a great deal of potential for conversion into additional accommodation, as a playroom, office/study or as a guest bedroom (subject to the necessary
planning consents).
wash basin, WC, heated towel rail, oak flooring and a built-in storage cupboard.
• The first floor is approached by a staircase from the dining/family room rising
to two attic rooms, one of which is currently used as a useful office in the
eaves with a lovely outlook over the garden. The other large room offers a
great deal of potential for conversion into additional accommodation, as
a playroom, office/study or as a guest bedroom (subject to the necessary
planning consents).

Outside
The beautifully landscaped garden forms a very attractive setting to Old Oak Cottage and is undoubtedly one of the main features.
To the rear of the house is a wide paved terrace ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, with a step down to an expansive area of lawn with a number of established trees and shrubs and bordered by a hedge boundary providing a surprising degree of privacy and seclusion. Enclosure for ‘free range’ chickens. To one side there is a designated ‘entertainment/play area’ currently incorporating a good sized hot tub and with space for additional sitting and relaxing, providing a part shaded refuge from the sunny garden.
Wandering through the centre of the garden from the cottage is a gravel path which leads down to a generous parking area with space for several cars. This path is used by the current owners as the main approach to the house.
In all about 0.17 of an acre