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Corfu Cottage
Corfu Cottage
Corfu Cottage

6 bedroom detached house

Chain-free
Under offer
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Detached house
6 bed
5 bath
EPC rating: C*
128,502 sq ft / 11,938 sq m

Key information

Tenure: Freehold
Council tax: Ask agent
Broadband: Ultra-fast 330Mbps *
Mobile signal: 
EE O2 Three Vodafone
Water: Ask agent
Heating: Ask agent
Electricity: Ask agent
Sewerage: Ask agent
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Property description & features

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • Stabling, sand school and paddocks
  • Potential for seperate accomodation
  • No chain
Corfu Cottage is a substantial and most attractive detached house in an elevated position facing south west with wonderful rural views and overlooking its own garden and grounds. The present owners have owned the house for about 40 years and have considerably improved and extended it in that time. The property offers huge potential for further ancillary accommodation.

Corfu Cottage dates originally from 1950's and has attractive brick and tile hung elevations with oak framed windows all under a hipped and pitched tiled roof. Internally there is much Oak joinery and the house offers excellent family accommodation and could easily be adapted for two family living. Externally the Garden and Grounds in all, extend to just under 3 acres, the garden surrounds the house with the remaining land arranged as equestrian including stabling, sand school, and paddocks.

Solid wood entrance door opens to Entrance Hall with oak flooring. Built in cupboards. Stairs to First Floor. Cloakroom.

Double aspect Dining Room with fireplace. The room opens into Double aspect Sitting Room with attractive brick herringbone fireplace with bressummer. Glazed double doors to terrace.

Spacious Kitchen/Breakfast Room with an excellent work surface area over a range of cupboards and drawers, Miele dishwasher and fridges. 4 Oven Aga. Tumbled marble tiled floor. Stable style External door.

Utility Room with Butlers sink. Open archway to Snug with glazed double doors to terrace.

Secondary Hall with door to front drive, secondary stairs to first floor.

Shower/Cloakroom.

Double aspect Office/Family Room including small kitchenette with double farmhouse sink and plumbing for dishwasher. Part glazed external door.

Garage/Store. with wall mounted Worcester gas boiler, plumbing and space for washing machine. Double wooden doors.

First Floor approached by single flight of stairs to Galleried landing with access to roof space built in cupboards.

Double aspect Master Bedroom with superb outlook and views. Bay window. En Suite Bathroom including shower.

Double aspect Guest Bedroom with fitted wardrobes. Airing cupboard. En Suite Shower Room.

Double Bedroom enjoying views to the rear.

Family Bathroom.

Through Bedroom with built in storage cupboards. Wash basin.

Good sized Double aspect Bedroom with en suite Bathroom including jacuzzi bath.

Secondary Landing with shelved cupboard, access to roof space, secondary stairs.

Shower Room.

Large Double aspect Bedroom currently used as Sitting Room with low windows and lovely outlook.

Double aspect Bedroom.

Nevill Court is a prestigious private, tree lined no-through road located off Nevill Park on the West side of town- Well away from main roads. There is easy access to Tunbridge Wells and is under 1.5 miles of the mainline station. Tunbridge Wells town Centre offers a wide range of shops from the specialist boutique shops on the historic Pantiles and old High Street, to the more modern retail outlets in the Royal Victoria Shopping Centre and out-of-town retail park.

Tunbridge Wells station serves London Charing Cross/Cannon Street.

There are a number of well-regarded schools in the local area in both private and state sectors including Tonbridge & Sevenoaks independent schools.

Preparatory schools in and around the town such as Rosehill, The Mead and Beechwood. Holmewood House in Langton Green, Kent College at Pembury as well as the Schools at Somerhill, and Hilden Grange in Tonbridge. There are also a good number of primary schools as well as Grammar schools for Boys and Girls in Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge including Skinners and Judd.

The A21 provides links to the M25 and thence motorway network, Gatwick, Stansted and Heathrow airports, Channel Tunnel and the Ports as well as the South Coast.
There are many attractive walking routes from the property through The Common to the mainline station, High Street and Pantiles and a footpath from the top of The Midway runs to The Beacon Public House and Restaurant in Tea Garden Lane.

Other leisure facilities include cricket at the Nevill Ground; golf, tennis, football and rugby clubs; Trinity Arts Centre and The Assembly Hall theatres, Multiplex Cinema at Knights Park Industrial Estate; Dunorlan Park with its boating lake.

Twin five bar gates open to tarmac driveway providing parking and turning area and access to iSsntegral Garage/Store. The Garden wraps around the house and is mainly laid to lawn. To the rear elevation is a substantial raised paved terrace running virtually the length of the house.

Below the house a further five bar gate and driveway lead to small Stable Yard with timber Stable Block to one side with 4 loose boxes. Behind the stabling is a Sand School about 170' x 80' (52m x25m) This can be accessed by a separate driveway off The Midway. To the West of the Sand School the Grounds are arranged as Paddocks with wooded area beyond.

In all extending to about 2.95 Acres.

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