A fairytale home with a Rapunzel-like turret has gone on the market for £1.25m.
The Gatehouse is a Grade II Listed property which used to be the grand entrance to a large country estate.
It was later split into two homes but has been returned to one incredible six-bedroom property by the current owners.
The Gatehouse, in East Grinstead, West Sussex, was built between 1840 and 1850 for Charles Chevall Tooke’s Hurst-an-Clays estate.
Originally, the entrance ran between the turret and the main body of the house with a connecting room forming an arch over the road.
The fairytale home with a Rapunzel-like turret has been put on the market for £1.25m
The Grade II Listed property in East Grinstead, West Sussex, used to be the grand entrance to a large country estate
The stunning property was built between 1840 and 1850 as part of Charles Chevall Tooke’s Hurst-an-Clays estate
The estate was later split into two homes, The Gatehouse and Dovecotes, but has been converted back to one large six-bedroom property by its current owners
The estate was sold off for housing development in 1963. The space under the archway was filled in to make an extra room and the building was divided into two homes – The Gatehouse and Dovecotes.
The current owners bought The Gatehouse in 2000 and Dovecotes four years later and converted them back into one property.
The house has 3,348 sq ft of accommodation with an entrance hall, kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, dining room, library, sewing room, snug office and a bedroom with ensuite on the ground floor.
Upstairs are five bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus storage. The fairytale turret contains an office on the ground floor and a dressing room for one of the bedrooms on the first floor.
The property has a gated driveway and a triple garage with mezzanine storage. Outside there is a beautifully landscaped garden, a vegetable patch, a pretty summer house and play areas.
Jo Parker, from Fine & Country, who are selling the property, said: ‘This is a unique opportunity to own an enchanting home. The Gatehouse is absolutely exquisite inside. The layout and the stonework and the fireplaces – it has so many wonderful quirky features.
‘The shape of the building is unusual, so you have some rounded walls. Everything is slightly different.
The garden has a beautiful stone well, a vegetable patch, and a pretty summer house as well as play areas
The 3,348 sq ft house consists of an entrance hall, kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, dining room, library, sewing room, snug office and a bedroom with ensuite on the ground floor.
The current owners bought The Gatehouse in 2000 and Dovecotes four years later and converted them back into one property
The picturesque garden also features a huge chessboard with life-size chess pieces
Originally, the entrance to the estate ran between the turret and the main body of the house with a connecting room forming an arch over the road
Upstairs are five bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus storage, while downstairs there is a bedroom with ensuite
Jo Parker, from Fine & Country, who are selling the property, described the sale as ‘a unique opportunity to own an enchanting home’
Ms Parker also added that the garden has electricity, allowing for potential buyers to install a hot tub
The fairytale turret contains an office on the ground floor and a dressing room for one of the bedrooms on the first floor
The property has a gated driveway and a triple garage with mezzanine storage
‘The owners have used one room of the turret as an office and the other as a dressing room.
‘You can go up higher in the turret, but because the walls are so thick your views are limited to the width/depth of the windows.
‘It’s really close to East Grinstead and yet it’s quite private in its situation on the road.
‘The garden is really pretty and has a well, a chessboard and electricity so you could put in a hot tub.
‘It’s very picturesque and fantastically situated as well.’