4 bedroom detached house

Guide Price £1,000,000 to £1,100,000 Located in this rural village lane, just off the central village green, a most charming period detached country house under a peg tiled roof, standing on a very large plot of about one acre, backing onto open countryside. The house has not been listed. It has the benefit of a separate studio/granny annexe. The lawn gardens offer total seclusion, extensive with numerous trees and small orchard, shrub borders and garden sheds with greenhouse. The southern half of the garden is Green Belt.

It has tremendous character dating in parts back to the 17th century, the accommodation arranged over two floors, with three large reception rooms, a kitchen and shower/utility room downstairs, with four bedrooms/ two bathrooms upstairs, one en-suite to the main bedroom. Features include a splendid main drawing room with an unusually high 9' heavy oak beamed ceiling and small Inglenook fireplace, plus an exceptionally large dayroom/ dining room, open plan to the pine kitchen. This in-turn leads through to the sitting room and shower/utility room at the far end. The two front bedrooms are found in the oldest part and feature original oak beamed ceilings and part beamed walls.

The house is approached via double wooden gates, leading to the long gravel driveway with the detached studio annexe located at the end, and the house to one side, with the extensive lawn gardens to the other. It is in need of modernisation, however, is quite habitable and offered with immediate possession, with no chain involved in the sale. It has full gas fired central and all the windows have been replaced with upvc sealed double glazed units. New wiring would no doubt be ideal, together with a new kitchen and bathrooms.

Orchard House is located in this much desired conservation area, some 3.6 miles away to the old town of West Malling, with its high street shops and mainline railway station providing a service into central London Blackfriars and Victoria. Sevenoaks is 10.9 miles away and offers a larger selection of shops and restaurants, plus the mainline railway line providing a very fast rush hour service into London Bridge, Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Blackfriars. It also has a service into St.Pancras and Ashford International Terminals. The village is ideally placed for quick access onto the M26 motorway, leading to the M25 and national routes, also with the M20/A20 close-by.