Greenhurst and Foxhole in High Hurstwood for sale at £7m

Two farms with country houses are up for sale.

The farms, called Greenhurst and Foxhole, are in High Hurstwood, near Uckfield and cover 378 acres.

In the mid-16th century, Greenhurst Farm was an important agricultural and labour resource supporting the growing demands of the iron industry.

The traditional Sussex tile house has six bedrooms (Image: Savills) Sitting on the edge of the High Weald National Landscape, the farms include two primary farmhouses, Greenhurst Farmhouse, a six-bedroom traditional Sussex tile hung house with period features, including exposed beams, oak panelling and open fireplaces, and Foxhole Farmhouse, a recently refurbished four-bedroom house.

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There is also a range of other modern and traditional farm buildings, including some with planning permission for four holiday lets.

Inside the tile hung farm cottage (Image: Savills)The farmland is made up of arable farmland, pasture and woodland.

Chris Spofforth of Savills rural agency team in the South East said: “Having been in the ownership of the same family for three generations, the sale of Greenhurst and Foxhole Farms presents a rare opportunity for an incoming buyer in a beautiful, yet accessible, part of East Sussex.”

The farm has a number of outbuildings and two homes (Image: Savills) Greenhurst and Foxhole Farms is available as a whole, with a guide price of £7,000,000, or in ten lots.

LOCAL AREA

The first record of Uckfield’s name comes from 1220 when a weekly market was granted. The name may have related to an individual (Ucca’s field is suggested in a 2008 report in the Sussex Extensive Urban Survey). Its church began life as a 13th century chapel of ease to Buxted, but was rebuilt in the 19th century. The town began small, with evidence of clothmaking, pottery and leatherworking before the expansion of ironworking between the 16th and 18th centuries. Sussex ironmaker John Fuller, possibly an ancestor of Brightling’s famous Mad Jack Fuller, lived in the town and has a memorial in the church.

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