Sleeping up to 10 adults maximum (2 children and a maximum of 2 under 2 infants) and including a fabulous family room with pair of built in bunk beds, the Mission House is one of our largest properties, with 5 bedrooms and 5 en-suite baths. There are 3 bedrooms downstairs one with super king accessible master bed and wet room, 2 king bedrooms and a bedroom with a four poster bed and freestanding cast iron bath upstairs. The Mission House is wheel-chair friendly and the most accessible. The Mission House is our stylishly converted Victorian church meeting room and school house. We’ve always wanted to convert a church (who hasn’t?) and with its giant cathedral windows and opulent velvet curtains, we’ve kept the drama and added some serious glamour. Gently split level, but with a large, beautiful accessible master bed, alongside a designated accessible wet room on the ground floor, the Mission House is wheel-chair friendly and the most accessible property on the estate. There are an additional 3 bedrooms downstairs and at the top of the reclaimed spiral staircase we’ve created a sumptuous upstairs bedroom with a four-poster bed and freestanding cast iron bath. The large sitting room, with its wood burning stove, and deep chesterfield sofas, opens onto the eat-in kitchen, with vintage church pews for seating and a WC. We love this cool, sexy house, with its eclectic period details, reclaimed touches and chic décor, and can’t imagine a better place to open a bottle and bring in the new year, or celebrate a special occasion with family and friends, laughing and playing parlour games until the wee hours. We love Lydhurst because of the trees, because of the views, because of the varied architecture of the buildings; because of the bluebells in the woods and the sheep in the fields. We love the history. The landscape; the way it makes us feel. Lydhurst is a family owned country estate in West Sussex. Nestling in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and renowned for its far-reaching views across the South Downs, Lydhurst is a picturesque landscape punctuated with intimate areas of woodland, formal gardens, lakes and parkland. You'll be amazed how close you can be to London and still feel so blessedly far from it all. Designed as a haven, Lydhurst was for generations a place for a lucky few to enjoy. We want to expand this legacy and share this enjoyment with others. Our vision for Lydhurst is founded in easy enjoyment, conservation, enhancement, and understanding; with our foremost objective being to care for this extraordinary landscape. We think being here is a welcome retreat from time pressures, digital domination, closed-in horizons. We hope that when you are with us you can relax, reconnect with the natural environment; step back, recalibrate and reboot. But don’t worry, we have have good wifi too! Whether you like your nature close up, or mostly through a window next to a cosy fire, it’s good to re-connect. On the estate you will see grazing cattle and working farm machinery, along with a team of dedicated gardeners and our estate manager. Many of the team live on site. We are all committed to maintaining and promoting the English countryside and are passionate about land stewardship and conservation. We founded Lydhurst Cottages with the hope that we could share these properties and offer guests the opportunity to enjoy this wonderful part of the world. Coming back from the city with our two young children has reinforced to us just how important a bit of wilderness is. We want our guests to relax, to unwind, to breathe. To take walks (maybe even get a little lost) and to discover what we already know – that this is a special place and that we are lucky to be part of its story. If you would like to learn more about Lydhurst and what we do, please get in touch.