At Undercliffe House, no expense has been spared in creating a home that is tastefully Victorian, spacious and comfortable. Today on the Country Life Online Property Desk we take a trip down to the sunny south coast where, in the East Sussex town of Lewes, we have the rather wonderful Undercliffe House. Gaze upon its Gothic presence and strap in.
There is much to discuss. First things first, the name. Undercliffe House would suggest that the house would be situated under some kind of protrusion.
It would suggest that the house might be under some kind of cliff. This is, of course, incorrect. If anything, it is the opposite.
The property, which stretches to some 3,356sq ft of living space, in fact occupies an elevated position of some 2.2 acres, with unrivalled views over the surrounding countryside and town, and Lewes Castle, Malling Coombe and the South Downs are all easily seen from the higher rooms. The property — for sale with Hamptons for £3 million — was originally built in 1865 in the aforementioned Gothic style by the local architect and builder James Berry.
It has towers, as it should. It has an octagonal porch, as all good Gothic buildings do. It is described by the agents as one of Lewes’s ‘most recognisable and unusual properties’.
I would agree with this analysis. Inside, the house boasts a number of character features that give it quite the personality. Among the five bedrooms, four bathrooms and four reception rooms, you will find porthole windows, V.
