Charles Wycherley Independent Estate Agents are delighted to announce the sale of this fine Edwardian town house in central Lewes, with good size rooms requiring modernisation the property has been in same family and not been sold for 70 years. The second floor is a large room with partition and has scope for an ensuite shower, with landing to roof area also having potential. On the first floor, there is the principal bedroom with wardrobe and fireplace and a further double outlook to the garden. There is a spacious landing on this floor which could be incorporated into a shower/bathroom, leaving the current large bathroom with potential as a fourth bedroom. The ground floor has the entrance hall to the front bayed sitting room and double doors to the rear living room, both with brick fireplaces. There is a large rear kitchen with central larder, which is likely to be opened up and modernised. There is a 2-room cellar, outside w.c. and front and rear garden with footpath approach. The property benefits from gas fired central heating.
Lancaster Street is a highly central location, just to the north of Lewes High Street, within a short walk of Waitrose, a range of independent shops, inns, cafés, and restaurants. The nearby Pells area offers superb river and wetland walks, as well as the historic open-air swimming pool located down St John's Hill, just past the neighbouring church. Lewes Railway Station lies just beyond the High Street, providing fast and regular connections to London Victoria and London Bridge (approximately 70 minutes), and to Brighton (around 20 minutes). The station is also adjacent to the Depot Cinema.
SECOND FLOOR
Bedroom 1: Spacious top-floor double bedroom with dormer window overlooking the rear garden and churchyard. Features a cast iron fireplace, full wall of wardrobes, and potential to add a roof light to the south (subject to planning).
A central partition offers the opportunity to create an en suite bathroom.
Access to a loft space with exposed timbers provides potential for further conversion or storage.
FIRST FLOOR
Landing: Extending to the rear, offering space for a potential central bathroom or study area.
Bedroom 2 (Main): Generous double bedroom with cast iron fireplace, fitted wardrobes, and wall-to-wall cupboards with sliding doors. Includes a telephone point, radiator, and sash window overlooking Lancaster Street.
Bedroom 3 Double bedroom with sash window overlooking the rear garden and churchyard, cast iron fireplace, wardrobe cupboard, and radiator.
Bathroom/Potential Bedroom 4: Currently fitted as a large family bathroom, but with scope to create an additional bedroom if the landing or study area were repurposed as a bathroom.
Comprises steel panel bath, modern electric shower, wash basin with cupboards under, low-level WC, radiator, and airing cupboard housing a copper hot water tank with immersion heater and programmer. Sash window overlooks the rear garden.
GROUND FLOOR
Entrance Hall: With meter cupboard, cloak hanging space, telephone point, wall light, and stairs to the first floor.
Sitting Room: Featuring a bay window to the south-facing front garden, brick open fireplace with wooden mantel and clay tile hearth, picture rail, double radiator, and dimmer switch. Double doors open to:
Dining/Family Room: Connecting the sitting room and hall, with glazed doors, Original pine panelling on the wall to the staircase, and door to cellar. Brick fireplace with tiled mantel and hearth, double radiator, and picture rail.
Kitchen: Fitted with a range of wall and base units, worktops, store and larder cupboards, and double-bowl white sink unit with cupboards and drawers beneath. Includes freestanding gas cooker, Beko dishwasher and spaces/plumbing for washing machine, dishwasher and fridge/freezer.
Double aspect windows to the side and rear gardens. Houses a Potterton Profile gas-fired boiler.
Cellar Main Room: With window light to rear, power and lighting, and fitted shelving.
An arched opening leads to the front room, providing useful storage or hobby space.
OUTSIDE
Front Garden: Pebbled area with brick path and arched entrance porch, enclosed by a flint boundary wall. Shared metal gate and path with neighbouring properties (Nos. 1 and 2).
Rear Garden: Accessed via a rear gate, with concrete path from kitchen, outside WC (with wash basin and high-level WC), and a raised brick patio. Approximately 35 ft in depth, with a gate leading to a rear pathway behind No. 1.
Council Tax
Lewes District Council, Band E
Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.
