The house in which Peter Pan author JM Barrie spent much of his life is up for sale.

The 600-year-old country pile near Chiddingly between Heathfield and Hailsham is described as Sussex’s “perfect timber framed house” and is on the market for £2.25 million.

Set in five acres of rolling countryside, Stonehill House has been home Peter Pan author JM Barrie and rock star Keith Emerson.

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Within the 4,344 sq ft property is a lake, a swimming pool, a tennis court, an orangery, a paddock and extensive landscaped gardens.

Sophie Wysock-Wright, from Savills, said: “The sale has certainly generated lots of positive interest and discussion.

“Stonehill House is a fantastic slice of British history.

“The timber front is incredible and the house has the most amazing round-headed front door, an original from the 15th Century.

“The five acres of gardens are simply stunning – they are very well cultivated and feature upper and lower gardens.

“Stonehill House has been described as the quintessential English country house, but it is much more than that.

“It is the perfect blend of history and contemporary living all set in a stunning location. It is a dream home in every sense.”

Believed to date from the 15th Century and listed Grade II* as a ‘particularly important building of more than special interest’, the property would have originally been one large hall, divided in Tudor times to formseveral rooms with fireplaces added and bedrooms over.

The oldest records relating to the house state it was home to a family of iron founders called the Elphicks, and that it once formed part of the vast Sackville estate.

A 1,076 sq ft two-bedroom cottage was added in the 18th century.

It was home to Scottish author JM Barrie, who moved in 1921, about 15 years after he created his most famous character Peter Pan.

Barrie lived there until 1934, three years before his death.

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The house more recently belonged to Keith Emerson, keyboardist with rockers Emerson, Lake and Palmer in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the last century, Stonehill House was appraised by a noted architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, who dated the restoration of the house to 1912 and 1924, described it as “the perfect timber-framed Sussex house”.