About this location
This stone house, formerly two cottages, with a large range of stone outbuildings set in around 12 acres of chestnut coppice, is a rustic working farmhouse filming location near Pulborough, West Sussex. A stone-flagged hall with log burner, a rustic kitchen with copper sink, working bread oven and wood-fired range, a copper bath bedroom, a stone barn with bar, cinema, baby grand piano and minstrels’ gallery, a working forge, a darkroom, paddocks and spring-fed swimming ponds suit period drama, feature films and photoshoots.
Key features
- Stone house, formerly two cottages
- Around 12 acres of chestnut coppice, paddocks and a small orchard
- Four spring-fed ponds, one used for wild swimming
- Stone-flagged entrance hall with log burner
- Rustic kitchen with copper double sink, working bread oven and wood-fired range
- Bedroom with antique emperor bed and copper bath
- Stone barn with bar, cinema room, baby grand piano and minstrels’ gallery
- Working forge, photographic darkroom and studio
- Stable, walled garden and woodland clearing with cabin
Room breakdown
- Entrance hall with shower room
- Kitchen / diner
- Larder
- Back kitchen
- Living room
- Bedroom 3 with en-suite WC
- Master bedroom with en-suite and dressing room
- Second bedroom with bathroom
- Barn with bar / cinema and gallery
- Forge
- Home office / library with shower room
- Darkroom and studio
- Stable
- Walled garden, paddocks, ponds and woodland
Parking and accessibility
- Quarter-mile single-track tarmac drive
- Hardstanding around the house and barns
- Parking for larger vehicles in the former sand school
- Single-track, twisty approach road from the north
Amenities
- High-speed fibre broadband to the house and barn
- Three-phase electricity in the barn
- Seven toilets across the house and outbuildings
- Very quiet, secluded setting
- Some photographic and lighting equipment available to hire