Woodland house on stream where AA Milne wrote that Winnie invented Pooh-sticks on market for £2.85m 

A luxury woodland home on the stream where AA Milne wrote that Winnie and Christopher Robin invented Pooh-sticks is up for sale for £2.85million. 

Hartfield Hall is in the same village Mr Milne lived when he was inspired to write his Winnie the Pooh children’s stories in the 1920s.

The village of Hartfield is within Ashdown Forest, Sussex, which Milne called Five Hundred Acre Wood, and is where Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore had their adventures.

One of their famous escapades was inventing the game of Pooh-sticks at a wooden bridge in the forest.

Hartfield Hall is in the same village Mr Milne lived when he was inspired to write his Winnie the Pooh children’s stories in the 1920s

The luxury woodland home is by the stream where AA Milne wrote that Winnie and Christopher Robin invented Pooh-sticks

The luxury woodland home is by the stream where AA Milne wrote that Winnie and Christopher Robin invented Pooh-sticks

The property is going on the market for £2.85million as the family who lived there for more than 20 years decided to downsize (pictured: The conservatory)

The property is going on the market for £2.85million as the family who lived there for more than 20 years decided to downsize (pictured: The conservatory)

Pooh-sticks Bridge remains today and attracts visitors from all over the world who play the wholesome game of dropping sticks into the stream for a race. The stream flows across the forest past Hartfield Hall which is about half-a-mile away (pictured: The stream which leads to the bridge)

Pooh-sticks Bridge remains today and attracts visitors from all over the world who play the wholesome game of dropping sticks into the stream for a race. The stream flows across the forest past Hartfield Hall which is about half-a-mile away (pictured: The stream which leads to the bridge)

The property has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a drawing room, dining hall, a large kitchen, a study and conservatory (pictured: One of the property's bathrooms)

 The property has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a drawing room, dining hall, a large kitchen, a study and conservatory (pictured: One of the property’s bathrooms)

Pooh-sticks Bridge remains today and attracts visitors from all over the world who play the wholesome game of dropping sticks into the stream for a race.

The stream flows across the forest past Hartfield Hall which is about half-a-mile away.

The mock-Tudor property was actually built in the 1980s and has been lived in by the same family for more than 20 years.

They are now looking to downsize and have put the large, detached house up for sale for £2.85million.

The property has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a drawing room, dining hall, a large kitchen, a study and conservatory.

The mock-Tudor property was actually built in the 1980s and has been lived in by the same family for more than 20 years (pictured: One of the property's bedrooms)

The mock-Tudor property was actually built in the 1980s and has been lived in by the same family for more than 20 years (pictured: One of the property’s bedrooms)

This house itself is very close to Pooh Bridge, 'almost a stone's throw from it', Andrew Harwood, of estate agents Strutt and Parker said (pictured: The home's spacious kitchen)

 This house itself is very close to Pooh Bridge, ‘almost a stone’s throw from it’, Andrew Harwood, of estate agents Strutt and Parker said (pictured: The home’s spacious kitchen)

Hartfield Hall is within Ashdown Forest, which Milne called Five Hundred Acre Wood, which is where Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore were said to have had their adventures (pictured: The dining hall)

Hartfield Hall is within Ashdown Forest, which Milne called Five Hundred Acre Wood, which is where Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore were said to have had their adventures (pictured: The dining hall)

One of their famous escapades was inventing the game of Pooh-sticks at a wooden bridge in the forest (dining hall pictured from above)

One of their famous escapades was inventing the game of Pooh-sticks at a wooden bridge in the forest (dining hall pictured from above)

'This house itself is very close to Pooh Bridge, almost a stone's throw from it. It is bounded by a stream that connects to the one that flows under the bridge,' Mr Harwood said

‘This house itself is very close to Pooh Bridge, almost a stone’s throw from it. It is bounded by a stream that connects to the one that flows under the bridge,’ Mr Harwood said

It comes with a separate detached one-bed cottage, a range of outbuildings that could be converted into holiday accommodation and four acres of land

It comes with a separate detached one-bed cottage, a range of outbuildings that could be converted into holiday accommodation and four acres of land

Mr Harwood said: 'It has been well-looked after and updated. It is on the edge of Hartfield which is a quiet, pretty old-school English village' (pictured: The property's kitchen)

Mr Harwood said: ‘It has been well-looked after and updated. It is on the edge of Hartfield which is a quiet, pretty old-school English village’ (pictured: The property’s kitchen)

AA Milne bought a country home just north of Ashdown Forest in 1925 and his family went there every weekend and spent two months there in the summer (pictured: The floor plan of Hartfield Hall)

AA Milne bought a country home just north of Ashdown Forest in 1925 and his family went there every weekend and spent two months there in the summer (pictured: The floor plan of Hartfield Hall)

EH Shepard also used it as the basis for his illustrations for the books and the forest remains largely unchanged from how it looked in the 1920s (pictured: Floor plan of Hartfield Hall Cottage)

EH Shepard also used it as the basis for his illustrations for the books and the forest remains largely unchanged from how it looked in the 1920s (pictured: Floor plan of Hartfield Hall Cottage)

It comes with a separate detached one-bed cottage, a range of outbuildings that could be converted into holiday accommodation and four acres of land.

Andrew Harwood, of estate agents Strutt and Parker, said: ‘Hartfield Hall was built in the 1980s with a very big roof space to give it a spacious living area.

‘It has been well-looked after and updated. It is on the edge of Hartfield which is a quiet, pretty old-school English village.

Pictured: Christopher Robin Milne, son of AA Milne

Pictured: Christopher Robin Milne, son of AA Milne

‘It is also in the heart of Ashdown Forest which is a bit of a well-kept secret and is a wonderful place with amazing woodland and heathland.

‘It does attract tourists but not as many as well known at National Parks such as the New Forest.

‘This house itself is very close to Pooh Bridge, almost a stone’s throw from it. It is bounded by a stream that connects to the one that flows under the bridge.

‘The owners have been there for about 20 years and have been very happy living there but they are now looking to move on to something a bit smaller.’

AA Milne bought a country home just north of Ashdown Forest in 1925 and his family went there every weekend and spent two months there in the summer.

Milne and his son Christopher Robin Milne went for forest walks and he used the open heathland as the setting for his Winnie the Pooh stories based on his son’s stuffed animals.

EH Shepard also used it as the basis for his illustrations for the books and the forest remains largely unchanged from how it looked in the 1920s.

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