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6 bedroom detached house
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Entrance hall
- 4 Reception rooms
- Kitchen/breakfast room
- 6 Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a shower room
- Barn
- Garages
- Workshop, wood shed and summer house
- Tennis court and swimming pool
- Garden
Barbary Farmhouse has been a much loved family home for many years. With sympathetic care and restoration, the house will adapt to 21st century living, juxtaposing the old with the new.
From entering the house the sense of antiquity and character is readily evident in all the main rooms. The bright double aspect dining room is dominated by a magnificent inglenook that is equally well matched by a similar one situated in the drawing room. Both rooms are very fine indeed and the perfect rooms for entertaining. The adjoining panelled sitting room has Georgian influences.
Running across the rear of the house is the study, which is also beamed and has open studding; adjacent is a useful ground floor shower room together with access to the pool complex. A door on the other side of the study leads to an inner lobby which, in turn, leads to the kitchen/breakfast room. The kitchen is well fitted with a range of wooden wall and floor units and leads directly into the utility room.
Two separate staircases lead to the first floor accommodation, which provides five double bedrooms and a family bathroom.
A further staircase leads to the second floor, where the principal bedroom is situated. This is a magnificent room with the crown post standing proudly amongst the superb beamed structure of the roof. Next door is an additional bathroom.
A gravel driveway leads to the house and provides plenty of parking space, as well as access to the outbuilding, which has two garages, shed and workshop space. There is also a barn, providing further space for storage (this building is in need of substantial repair). Adjacent to this is a rare and unusual donkey well.
The front of the house looks out to a paved terrace and an area of lawn. A set of steps leads down onto a lower lawn beyond which is the tennis court. The garden to the rear is very private and includes the former vegetable garden. The garden as a whole is well stocked and benefits from mature trees and shrubs. To one side of the house is the swimming pool and pool room (both in need of maintenance).
Norton is a small hamlet close to popular Faversham, Canterbury and the coastal town of Whitstable, all of which combine to provide an array of cultural, sporting and recreational opportunities, together with an excellent range of educational facilities in both the independent and state sectors.
There are excellent road and rail communications in the area, with the M2 being easily accessible. Trains from Faversham to London Victoria take approximately 70 minutes and to London St Pancras via the High Speed link from just 66 minutes.
The Port of Dover and the Channel Tunnel terminal at Folkestone offer regular services to the Continent.
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