Riding high in East Sussex
O LIVER RODBOURNE of Knight Frank’s country department (020–7861 1093) quotes a guide equestrian estate, Broom, at High Hurstwood, near Crowborough, East Sussex, close to the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club and the Ashdown Forest, in the High Weald AONB. Broom House is a handsome, eight-bedroom, 1920s house built in neo-Gothic style, with an annexe and cottage set in about 18¼ acres of lawns and paddocks, with breathtaking southerly views. Equestrian facilities ‘to die for’ include American-barn stabling for seven horses, further stabling and barns, a full-size sand school, a smaller arena for lunging or turnout, a horse-walker, and a block of mature woodland, recently cleared to create a network of walking or riding tracks.
