3-bedroom flat · RH19 1QX
Sold STCReduced £5.5k (−2%) on 10 SepListed 129 days
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About
There is a quiet honesty to this home that makes it easy to picture a life here.
Occupying the top floor of a handsome red brick building and offered to the market with no onward chain, this is a generously proportioned maisonette of a kind that rarely comes along: Three bedrooms, a large private garden, and a sense of seclusion that belies its well connected position.
A sheltered porch and private entrance set the tone, and from the moment you step in, the trees and greenery wrapping around the building lend a surprising sense of calm.
The accommodation is arranged over the upper floor, with a central landing that keeps the flow easy and the rooms private.
Three bedrooms sit off the landing, two of them comfortable doubles and the third a useful single or study.
The principal bedroom is a generous space, dual aspect, with soft panelled detailing to the walls and a leafy outlook that fills the room with light through the day.
The second bedroom is similarly bright, finished in calm sage tones with a large window framing the green beyond.
The third is a flexible room, equally at home as a child's bedroom, a nursery, or the home office so many of us now need.
The kitchen has been fitted in bold high-gloss red with contrasting worktops, a real statement space with room for a freestanding cooker, washing machine, and a tall fridge freezer.
A window above the sink looks out over the garden and brings the greenery indoors.
The family bathroom is a clean, practical room with both a full-length bath and a separate corner shower enclosure, finished in crisp white tiling with a heated towel rail.
Practical touches set this home apart.
At ground floor level there are two large storage cupboards, the kind of genuinely useful space that is so often missing, ideal for bikes, garden tools, seasonal clutter, and everything in between.
Outside is where this home quietly shines. The private garden is a real size, mostly laid to lawn with an established patio, mature hedging, and a screen of trees that gives genuine privacy.
It is a blank canvas with good bones, and for anyone who likes to grow, potter, or simply sit out with a coffee on a summer morning, there is space here to make it your own.
Offered with no onward chain, this is a home with honest proportions, generous storage, a wonderful garden, and clear scope to add value. Early viewing is recommended.
Virtual staging has been used, the apartment will be empty for viewings Location Guide East Grinstead offers that rare combination of fast London access and genuine countryside on the doorstep.
The mainline station runs direct Southern services to London Victoria in around 56 minutes, roughly every half hour, while the A22 and nearby M23 give easy access to Gatwick, the M25, and the wider network.
Families are well served. Imberhorne School, the well regarded secondary and sixth form, sits on Imberhorne Lane itself, with Sackville School and a good spread of primaries elsewhere in the town.
The centre blends a historic medieval High Street of independent shops with the practical convenience of supermarkets, high street names, and the Atrium shopping centre.
For the outdoors, the High Weald National Landscape begins almost at the edge of town, with woodland and footpaths in abundance, and the much loved Bluebell heritage railway runs from East Grinstead down into Sussex.
Parks, sports clubs, a leisure centre, and golf are all close at hand.
Well connected, well served, and surrounded by some of the prettiest countryside in the South East, it is a town that suits commuters, families, and downsizers alike.
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About 45, Imberhorne Lane, East Grinstead
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