Wonderful Grade II listed family home set in an idyllic rural location with beautiful gardens and grounds, a detached oast house and further ancillary buildings.

Description

Little Norman Street Farm is a superb Grade II listed family home dating from the 16th and 17th century with a later addition in the 1980s. The house provides well-proportioned and versatile accommodation which is immaculately presented throughout. Features include bespoke fitted furniture by Chamber Furniture, modern bathroom suites, exposed wall and ceiling timbers, oak frame double glazed lead light windows and limestone flooring to parts of the ground floor.

In addition to the main house is the detached oast house which provides ancillary accommodation together with further outbuildings providing excellent storage, garaging, a gym and studio room and stabling.

The established gardens and grounds are a wonderful feature of the property with formal gardens, a swimming pool, pool house and summerhouse, kitchen garden, an orchard and four paddocks.

The principal reception rooms provide wonderful areas for both formal entertaining and family living. The drawing room is double aspect and features an impressive brick fireplace with open log burner. The sitting room features an inglenook fireplace with original bread oven and salt store. The dining room is double aspect and has an attractive oak fronted cupboard housing a study area, together with access to the cellar.

The spacious double aspect kitchen/breakfast/living room has an attractive outlook over the gardens and features a comprehensive range of kitchen cupboards with matching island unit by Chamber Furniture. There is a range of appliances including an electric Aga and separate oven together with Gaggenau fridge freezer.

The adjoining boot room has further storage and a freezer, and leads to the utility room with space for appliances.

Arranged over the first floor is the principal suite comprising a spacious bedroom with wooden flooring, fitted cupboards and doors opening to a Juliette balcony. There is a well-appointed dressing room together with a stylish en suite bathroom with separate shower cubicle.

There are four further bedrooms on this floor, one of which has an en suite shower room and two have vaulted ceilings.

The family bathroom features a modern suite with a separate shower cubicle.

To the second floor are two rooms with vaulted ceilings currently being used as a TV room and a store room.

The oast house is currently arranged as an office with fitted furniture, a living room with kitchenette, a bedroom with en suite shower room on the ground floor and a further roundel room on the first floor.

The purpose built barn comprises a gym with a cloakroom to the ground floor and studio and hobbies rooms to the first floor. There are also two open bay garages.

The large unconverted barn provides excellent storage, garaging and workshop.

There is a stable block comprising two loose boxes and a feed room.

The superb gardens provide a wonderful backdrop to the house with a wide variety of flowering shrubs, trees and plants. To the front is a small drive which leads to the large barn garaging and where a majestic walnut tree is located. To the rear of the house is a generous terrace providing a spacious area for al fresco entertaining. From here, a level lawn extends to the side and rear perimeter with deep shrub and herbaceous beds and a charming summerhouse. To one side is the enclosed pool area comprising a heated swimming pool and a detached pool house housing a sitting area, changing room and shower. A Japanese style garden sits between the house and the oast house, featuring a raised ornamental pond with established aquatic planting and a water feature, together with a line of Ligustrum Japonicum to the perimeter. On from here is a formal knot garden enclosed with pleached hornbeam and stocked with roses. The kitchen garden comprises a number of raised beds, a fruit cage and an impressive aluminium greenhouse in traditional style by Hartley Botanic Ltd.

The remainder of the land is divided into an orchard and four post and rail enclosed paddocks. The total plot amounts to about 14.3 acres.

Location

Little Norman Street Farm is located in a secluded rural position on the outskirts of the sought after village of Ide Hill in the heart of a designated Area of Outstanding Beauty and National Trust greenbelt land.
Shopping Facilities: Ide Hill village (0.8 miles) offers local amenities with a pub, village shop, primary school and church. Tesco, Riverhead (4.3 miles), Sainsbury’s, Otford (5.8 miles). Sevenoaks (4.5 miles), Bluewater (18.2 miles).
Mainline Rail Services: Sevenoaks (4.5 miles) to Cannon Street/Charing Cross/London Bridge.
Primary Schools: Ide Hill, Sundridge and Brasted. Riverhead Infants School. Amherst School, Riverhead.
Secondary Schools: Judd Boys Grammar, Weald of Kent and Tonbridge Girls Grammar Schools in Tonbridge. Weald of Kent Girls Grammar, Trinity and Knole Academy in Sevenoaks. Tunbridge Wells Boys’ and Girls’ Grammars and Skinners Boys’ Grammar in Tunbridge Wells.
Private Schools: Sevenoaks, Walthamstow Hall, Sackville and Tonbridge
Secondary Schools. Sevenoaks, Solefields, Walthamstow Hall, The Granville and New Beacon Prep Schools in Sevenoaks. St Michaels and Russell House Prep Schools in Otford. Radnor House in Sundridge. The Schools at Somerhill, Hilden Oaks and Hilden Grange in Tonbridge.
Leisure Facilities: National Trust Emmetts Garden. Sailing and water sports on Bough Beech or Chipstead Lakes, tennis at Chipstead village club together with Ide Hill football and cricket clubs. Hever Golf Club, Westerham Golf Club, Tandridge Golf Club, Wildernesse and Knole Golf Clubs in Sevenoaks and Nizels Golf/Fitness Centre in Hildenborough.
Sevenoaks and Edenbridge Leisure Centres.
All distances are approximate.

Square Footage: 4,267 sq ft


Acreage: 14.3 Acres

Directions

From Sevenoaks town centre proceed in a southerly direction turning right into Oak Lane opposite Sevenoaks School. Proceed out of the town turning right over Gracious Lane Bridge and then take the next right hand turning. Continue along this road to the T-junction and at the end turn left. Continue a short distance down the hill taking the next right hand junction to Ide Hill. Proceed into the village and at the roundabout turn right. Take the next right hand turning onto Norman Street and continue to the end at the T-junction where Little Norman Street will be found opposite on the right. Turn right and the entrance gates are approximately 50 yards along on the left.