7 bedroom house for sale

Overview

This handsome and spacious family home (not listed) has benefited from improvements and extensions over the years whilst still retaining many character features including open fireplaces and exposed wall and ceiling timbers.The ground floor in the main house benefits from a welcoming entrance hall with a storage cupboard and cloakroom. The drawing room offers very impressive proportions (27'10 x 18'2) along with a large brick Inglenook fireplace with a cast iron grate and tiled hearth double doors open through to the conservatory with French doors and views out to the delightful gardens. The double aspect dining room also provides a large brick Inglenook fireplace, exposed timbers and access to the garden.The double aspect and open plan kitchen/breakfast/family room has been creatively designed to offer a social arrangement with sliding doors opening out to the garden. The kitchen offers a comprehensive range of fitted units with Corian work surfaces, integrated Miele appliances and a quarry tiled floor. A boot room/second cloakroom and a utility room with space for appliances and housing the water softener completes the ground floor. The first floor provides the principal bedroom with an extensive range of fitted wardrobes and an en suite shower room. There are four further double bedrooms, study/bedroom 5 and a family bathroom. Access to the boarded loft can be gained via a retractable ladder from the landing.Further accommodation is available in the pretty detached cottage which sits at the top of the drive. The accommodation features a splendid, vaulted sitting/dining room with glazed doors, a fitted kitchen, a bedroom and bathroom with under floor heating. The cottage offers its own private terrace and garden.The property is approached via an electric gate and sloping drive, flanked by landscaped gardens and leading to a generous parking area with space for turning and the detached garaging for two cars with an electric up and over door. Further outbuildings include a row of attractive rose and clematis clad storerooms/workshops and a substantial oak framed, open bay barn with cedar shingle roof, ideal for livestock or machinery storage.The well stocked gardens and grounds surround the house and are a delightful feature of this country home with expanses of lawn, well established borders, varieties of seasonal shrubs, bulbs, roses, mature trees and a pretty stream. To the north of the gardens there are three enclosed fields, two with field shelters and all having water connected. To the south, a well-established evergreen hedge offers excellent privacy to the main house and garden from two further enclosed fields. The gardens and grounds total 6.4 acres. LocationThe property lies off a country lane, about a mile away from the popular village of Horsmonden and 4.6 miles to the south east of Paddock Wood station with frequent commuter rail services to London.Horsmonden village provides a good range of local amenities including a village shop, pharmacy, primary academy and kindergarten, sports field, tennis and cricket clubs. A comprehensive range of shopping and leisure facilities are available in Royal Tunbridge Wells. The area is well served with excellent education opportunities at both primary and secondary levels, in the private and state sectors. These include Somerhill, Saint Ronans, Marlborough House and Dulwich preparatory schools, Goudhurst and Horsmonden primary schools. Well regarded Grammar schools can be found in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.