Location

Brayfield is situated on the eastern edge of Cuckfield, a thriving village with an active community to the west of Haywards Heath, in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.   

Cuckfield offers a number of local amenities including a convenience store, petrol station, medical centre, variety of independent village shops, public houses, restaurants and a hotel and spa; Haywards Heath offers more comprehensive shopping and facilities, and a mainline railway station. Crawley and Brighton are within 10 and 15 miles respectively.      

There are many leisure activities available within the village at youth and adult levels including golf, rugby, cricket and local theatre. Across Sussex, activities include riding on Ashdown Forest, for which a permit is required, sailing at Ardingly and golf across the county.   

Spa and country house hotels include Ockenden Manor in the village, Alexander House, Ashdown Park, Gravetye Manor and South Lodge.      

There is a vibrant cultural and arts scene in Sussex, with world-class opera at Glyndebourne, theatre at Royal Tunbridge Wells and the annual Brighton Festival presenting a huge programme of theatre, dance, classical music and literary events      

Transport: There is a fast and frequent commuter service from Haywards Heath (1 miles distant or 19 minutes' walk) with services to London Bridge/Victoria from 42 minutes. Gatwick airport 13 miles.   

Schools: There is an excellent range of educational facilities locally, in both the private and state sectors. They include Holy Trinity primary and Warden Park secondary schools in Cuckfield, Great Walstead, Cumnor House, Handcross Park School, Burgess Hill Girls, Brighton College, Ardingly College and Hurstpierpoint College.      

All times and distances are approximate; walking times taken from Google Maps.

Description

Brayfield is a detached family home, dating from 1923 and ideally located in Tyler's Green on the edge of the sought-after village of Cuckfield – almost equidistant between Cuckfield's historic High Street and its many village amenities, and Haywards Heath's mainline railway station.

The house is typical of Turner's Arts & Crafts architectural style, externally characterised by brick elevations under a tiled roof, and internally with a number of exposed oak timbers, a solid oak staircase, original internal doors with thumb latches, wash rooms off many of the bedrooms, and both feature and working fireplaces. The property as a whole has much to recommend it: it has been in the same ownership for nearly 40 years and has clearly been a much-loved family home. It is unlisted, with a generous footprint, and offers excellent scope for updating and reconfiguring (subject to obtaining the necessary permissions).

The floor plan gives an excellent overview of the full extent of the accommodation, which extends to 2,088 square feet. Points of note include the two formal reception rooms: a spacious dual-aspect sitting room with a high ceiling and handsome brick inglenook fireplace, and the oak panelled dining room which features a pretty delft tiled feature fireplace. Lying off the sitting room are a versatile suite of rooms which have potential to be converted into self-contained accommodation, currently a ground floor bedroom, study, dressing/wash rooms and an interconnecting bathroom.

The kitchen has a walk-in larder and a door opening to the side of the house, where there is a boiler room and gardener's WC.

There are three bedrooms on the first floor, all with fitted or built in storage cupboards and two with wash rooms, together with a family bathroom and separate WC.

Brayfield's generous plot is of particular note, extending to about 1.28 acres in all. The house is approached from Tyler's Green via a gated driveway with central turning circle. To the east of the house is a detached tandem garage with attached store room and timber shed to the rear.

Lying adjacent to the back of the house is a paved terrace accessed from the sitting room, with stone steps descending to the lawn. The lawn extends away from the house, very well enclosed by mature shrubs and trees, to a further expanse of garden bordered by handsome mature trees and dotted with young oak.