* Freehold
* 4 Bedrooms
* 3 Reception Rooms
* Studio
* 2 Bathrooms
* Impressive galleried room
* Fitted kitchen
* Exceptional stunning period features
* Many exposed beams and vaulted ceilings
* Close to village centre of Churt
* Located in the Surrey Hills
The barn was originally part of the nearby Butts Farm, at one time part of the
considerable Churt Estate of Lord Ashcombe. The sympathetic and careful
rebuilding in 1995 with attention to detail retained the original character,
massive oak frames, trusses and joinery detail with fittings, carpenter’s
marks and graffiti. The complimentary use of oak and the creation of the
dramatic galleried rooms within the central former floor to ceiling wagon bays
are features. The elevations are of mellow oak cladding with stone and brick,
double glazing in hardwood frames under a steeply pitched tiled roof. The
accommodation is comfortably appointed and offers much flexibility of use with
bedrooms on ground and first floors and rooms well suited in their character
and location to studios or home based offices. A most fascinating ancient
house with a lovely, mellow period ambience.
**Outside**
A curving gravelled drive between lawns edged with hedges and trees leads to a
sweep to the front of the house. Framed by the barn on the west side is a
paved terrace with an adjoining ‘secret garden’ providing a
restful outlook from the main rooms, with a paved and stone walled courtyard
garden arranged around intersecting paved and gravelled paths with blended
mixed varieties of colourful flowering shrubs, a pool, feature trees and an
arbor. All is arranged to create hidden and shaded sitting areas. In one
corner are former stone and tiled piggeries now garden stores. A breakfast
terrace adjoins the kitchen on the east side. Off the drive is a 3 bay open
fronted barn providing garaging and storage. In all about 0. 475 of an acre of
mature and private gardens.
**Situation**
The countryside around the village of Churt is a most attractive, scattered
rural community on the Surrey/Hampshire border, renowned for its National
Trust land and designated as an Area of Great Landscape Value (aglv) and an
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (aonb) within the Green Belt. Butts Barn
lies on the southern edge of the village within 0. 35 miles of Churt village
centre, a popular, thriving village with a sense of community and a village
green with the church, infant and nursery schools, inns, village shop with
post office, restaurant, garage, recreation field with pavillion for cricket
and football clubs, tennis club and a range of village societies and
organisations. Churt adjoins Frensham Common and Ponds providing excellent
walking and riding country and a sailing club. A bus service connects the old
country towns of Farnham and Haslemere with regular trains to Guildford and
London Waterloo in under an hour. Access to Heathrow and Gatwick airports is
via the A3/M25. Golf courses
including Hankley Common and Hindhead are closeby and Chichester Harbour is
about 30 miles.