BURGATE HOUSE NEAR LOXHILL, GODALMING, SURREY - Savills
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BURGAT E H O US E NEAR LOXHILL, GODALMING, SURREY
One of the Surrey Hills’ finest Queen Anne country houses with panoramic views out towards the South Downs
Hascombe Village - 1.5 miles • Milford Station - 4 miles (Trains to London Waterloo from 50 minutes)
Guildford - 9 miles • M25 (J10) - 19 miles • London Gatwick - 30 miles
London Heathrow - 32 miles • Central London - 41 miles.
(Distances and times are all in approximate)
ACCOMMODATION SUMMARY
Reception hall • Drawing room • Dining room • Sitting room • Family kitchen • Artist studio • Scullery larder
Rear hall • WC • Integral double garage/former dining room • Cellar with 4 rooms
Master bedroom with en suite bath/shower room and inter-connecting dressing room/bedroom
Second bedroom suite with en suite bathroom
2 further double bedrooms on the first floor • family bathroom • separate WC
Second floor consisting of a family/play room • 4 further bedrooms
Secondary kitchen and 2 bath/shower rooms
Greenhouse • Wood stores • Outhouses • Gardeners WC
Jekyll designed formal gardens • South facing terrace • Paddock/wild flower meadow • Woodland
In all about 16 acres
Savills Guildford Savills Country Department
244-246 High Street 33 Margaret Street
Guildford, Surrey London
GU1 3JF W1G 0JD
Contact: Clive Moon Contact: Lottie Geaves
01483 796820 020 7409 8869
cmoon@savills.com savills.co.uk lgeaves@savills.com
SITUATION Burgate House is set down a long private driveway and occupies London commuters have three popular stations (Witley, Milford, an elevated position, situated equidistant to both Hascombe Godalming) to choose from (all with parking) offering frequent and Dunsfold villages, in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding and reliable rail services to London Waterloo in under an hour. Natural Beauty. The village of Hascombe is a thriving and active For a quiet country position, road links are also excellent with the community with the popular White Horse Public House accessible A3 at Milford just 4 miles away. Located between Gatwick and via road or footpath across adjacent woodland. Nearby Hambledon Heathrow, airport access is less than an hour away to either major has a village store and Post Office, staffed by volunteers, offering a airport. wide range of local products, as well as being a popular coffee shop The surrounding countryside is ideal for walking, cycling and and community hub. Hambledon village also has active cricket riding with plenty of country pubs in the adjacent villages. Golfers and football clubs and a thriving nursery school. Godalming is just delight in the superb choices available including the celebrated four miles away and offers a wide range of shops, supermarkets, West Surrey Golf Club. The area has a great selection of prominent restaurants and cafes. Approximately 9 miles away is Guildford, schools nearby including St. Catherines, Cranleigh, Barrow Hills, known for its picturesque high street, with a wide range of shops, Aldro, St. Hilary’s, Charterhouse, Prior’s Field, Royal Grammar restaurants and entertainment venues including theatres, live School, Guildford High School and Godalming Sixth Form College performance venues and an Odeon cinema. amongst others.
DESCRIPTION
Burgate House is arguably one of the finest Queen Anne country comfortable country house filled with many period features
houses in the Surrey Hills and is for sale for the first time in including original c18th marble fireplaces and wooden panelling.
over 40 years. Burgate House is Grade II listed to protect its It also has well-proportioned rooms, ideal for family living and
architectural importance and was originally built in 1734 by entertaining on a grand scale. The drawing room, dining room
Richard Eliot, whose initials appear on the original dated lead and sitting room are particularly fine rooms and all benefit from
rainwater heads. It is believed that the Eliot family made money remarkably generous ceiling heights, open fireplaces and far
by selling timber from the land around the property to one of reaching views to the south. The sweeping full height staircase is
the local Italian glassmakers, who owned a furnace in the vicinity worthy of particular note and is an elegant central feature of the
in about 1580. Burgate House has only changed ownership a house.
handful of times, including a period of time where the Batesons
let the property from the Godman family, who owned the house The first and second floor accommodation is no less impressive
for over 100 years. The original house has been added to over and is mainly laid out around the elegant open landing. The master
time, including the extension created by the Batesons in around bedroom has an en suite bathroom and an adjoining bedroom
1918. In the 1950’s the house was sold as part of the then Duke which would make an ideal dressing room or nursery. There is
of Westminster’s larger Park Hatch estate and some Edwardian another suite on the first floor and two further bedrooms with a
and older additions were demolished, offering future owners the shared bathroom and WC. The second floor, which was converted
opportunity to recreate the house as it once stood (subject to the by the current owners, comprises three further bedrooms and
usual required consents). It was the Batesons who commissioned shower room and then a separate integral flat, ideal for a nanny/
Gertrude Jekyll to lay out the gardens which still exist today, albeit housekeeper with a sitting room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.
adapted for easier maintenance over the years.
Beyond the formal drawing room are three further rooms offering
The current owner has maintained the house very well during a glimpse into its past as much larger property. No longer used as
their ownership, including having the roof re-tiled in around accommodation they could be recreated into the main house for
2005, however there remains great scope for an incoming buyer use as an alternative family kitchen or family space. One of those a
to modernise the interiors to their taste. Burgate House is a very studio/office.
Outbuilding
Cellar
Ground Floor First FloorBURGAT E H O US E
Approximate gross internal floor area
Main House & Garages: 7,975 sq ft / 741 sq m
Outbuildings: 811 sq ft / 75 sq m
Total: 8,786 sq ft / 816 sq m
For illustrative purposes only - Not to scale
Not shown in actual location/orientation
Second FloorGARDENS & GROUNDS The house is approached via a magnificent sweeping driveway flanked by mature trees, many rhododendron and daffodils in the spring, leading to spacious gravelled parking area. The drive then continues to the back of the house where the integral garaging is found. The magnificent gardens and grounds that surround the house are well established and contain a wealth of mature shrubs and plants, including the original Gertrude Jekyll designed gardens, which were of course meticulously planned and include ornate stone columns, a sunken terrace and a lawned area, making the most of the far reaching views. This formal garden opens out into a walled paddock or wild flower meadow to the west, which would be a good space to keep a pony. There are some of the best views are from this elevated piece of land on the property. There is also a large bank of ancient woodland running along the northern boundary of the property. Within the grounds are a number of specimen plants and trees, including the strawberry tree adjacent to the eastern front, which is reputedly one of the largest in the country. There is also a grove of Spanish chestnuts to the north of the house which is believed to contact some of the largest specimens known in Britain, several with a circumference of over 25 feet.
DIRECTIONS
(POSTCODE GU8 4BD)
From London take the A3 southbound passing through
Guildford until the Milford junction. Just off the A3 slip
road, take the first turning at the roundabout. At the traffic
lights just past the petrol station take the left hand turn
onto the A3100. At the next roundabout take the second
exit onto Church Road and then immediately turn left onto
Station Lane. Continue straight, crossing over the railway
line at Milford and through the edge of Enton, until you
reach the Hydestile cross roads. Continue straight over
onto Salt Lane. This turn soon splits (with Mare Lane) and
continues into Markwick Lane. Continue past Little Burgate
Farm and the Equestrian Livery Stables, the lane will then
rise up the hill and into a wooded area. The driveway will be
found just over the top of the hill on the right hand side and
is marked by two large stone posts. You will see a property
called Spring Copse just by the gate posts.
SERVICES
The owner has informed us that there is a shared private
water supply (owned by Burgate House, expenses shared
with Lower Burgate), private drainage, mains electricity,
oil fired central heating and hot water system (other than
on the second floor where there are electric night storage
heaters).
The neighbouring property, Lower Burgate, has a right of
LOCAL AUTHORITY access along the driveway.
Waverley Borough Council, 01483 861111. FIXTURES & FITTINGS
Certain fixtures & fittings such as: the two lion statues, the
POSTAL ADDRESS lead pots in the garden, the bronze statue in the paddock,
Burgate House, Markwick Lane, Loxhill, Godalming, Surrey, fitted carpets, curtains, light fittings and other garden
GU8 4BD. statuary are specifically excluded from the sale but may be
RIGHTS OF WAY available by separate negotiation.
There is a footpath that runs through the woodland to the VIEWING
north of the property. Strictly by appointment with Savills.Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2019. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. NOT TO SCALE.
BURGATE HOUSE
Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of
the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908)
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1. They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or
elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars
do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The
text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all
necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy
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