Beals Oak Farm, Wadhurst
An exceptional modern country house bordering the Wadhurst Park Estate in East Sussex has come to the market through Savills.
Beals Oak Farm, designed by architect Peter Cook of Cook Associates, is in an exceptional position with no close neighbours and beautiful countryside views.
The open and light interior is very modern and minimalist in style, with the impressive external elevations designed to reflect the fortified style of period farmhouses seen in the Pyrenees area of south west France. High quality materials have been used throughout, with the walls finished in light stone and dark timber, incorporating a tower detail in one section with a variety of hardwood. There is plenty of light throughout, with double glazed windows and some fully glazed, full height wall sections. The building is set under a substantial and intricate take on a more traditional slate tiled roof.
Laid out over two floors, the accommodation provides for well organised family space, with generous, nicely flowing open-plan reception areas downstairs and five bedrooms served by four bathroom/shower rooms upstairs. A one-bedroom self-contained flat adds further accommodation, which is also linked to the main house.
The house has been designed around the wonderful views as well as the landscaped pond with waterfall. There is an overhanging decked area on the south west side of the pond, accessed directly from the family room and kitchen/dining room.
The well fitted contemporary style kitchen from Great British Design in Sevenoaks is centred around a feature island breakfast bar, topped with steel grey leathered granite and contrasting white quartz worktops to one side. It has a four oven electric Aga with a hotplate and two rings, together with a range of integrated appliances. A large fridge-freezer sits in a recess within the neighbouring utility room.
Everywhere in the house has underfloor hot water central heating, with limestone flooring downstairs and in the bathrooms upstairs, and solid oak flooring elsewhere. The house also has CAT 6 cabling.
The kitchen opens into the dining room and in turn, to the family room which has a wood burning fire as well as access to the spiral cellar, with its 1,500 bottle capacity.
There are formal gardens to the front forecourt, leading around to the extensive park-like grounds which border the Wadhurst Park Estate, both to the rear and the sides, as well as the field opposite, which is across from the lane. The farm was originally an equestrian set up and the parkland could easily be fenced into pony paddocks if desired.
A double garage has electrically operated doors and there is also a sauna room with shower. Around to the rear, accessed from a spur drive, is a further timber garage building away from the house.
Charles Lang of Savills Tunbridge Wells says: “Found on a delightful rural lane within the High Weald National Landscape, this immaculate contemporary country house is in an exceptional position. The house is concealed on arrival at the gates and then only discreetly visible along the tree lined approach drive. It’s only once you are through the gated front forecourt that everything starts to become clear, including the full panorama of the stunning country setting.”
Beals Oak Farm is about 1.9 miles from the village of Wadhurst, previously named ‘The best place to live in the UK’ by the Sunday Times. The village is known for its active local community and individual shops. Wadhurst station is about 3.4 miles from the property, with regular services to Charing Cross and Cannon Street from 60 minutes. Meanwhile, the large town of Tunbridge Wells is just over nine miles away.
Beals Oak Farm is being marketed by Savills for a guide price of £3,750,000.
