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3 bedroom semi-detached house
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Sought after location
- Charming semi-detached house
- Delightful views over village green
- Delightful established gardens
- Hildenborough station approx. 4.4 miles
- Tonbridge station approx. 4.6 miles
- Sevenoaks station approx. 7.3 miles
- EPC Rating = E
Description
3 Grange Cottages is an elegant semi-detached three/four bedroom tile-hung cottage, dating from 1873 with later additions. The property is superbly located in the heart of the sought after village of Shipbourne, with the popular Chaser Inn and weekly award-winning Farmers’ Market as well as the church, primary school and common, with delightful views over The Green to the front and with easy access to the plentiful countryside walks. This character property offers spacious and well-presented accommodation arranged over two floors, and points of note include a generous farmhouse style kitchen, solid wood flooring, attractive fireplaces and delightful front and rear gardens, and is well located for road and rail links, together with the nearby village of Plaxtol, which offers local shopping amenities, and the larger towns of Sevenoaks and Tonbridge.
Reception rooms comprise a charming sitting room benefits from a box bay window providing views over The Green to the front, and features built in storage cupboards and fireplace with wood burning stove; a study with fireplace which is open to the kitchen/breakfast room and a family room which enjoys French doors leading out to the terrace, which could be utilised as a bedroom suite.
The generous kitchen/dining room is dual aspect and benefits from direct access to the garden. The kitchen is fitted with wall and base units in a lovely farmhouse style with granite work surfaces incorporating a double bowl Belfast sink and a double oven oil Rayburn serving both cooking and heating purposes.
There is space for a dishwasher and a washer/dryer.
A shower room and a further bathroom complete the ground floor accommodation.
Arranged over the first floor are three bedrooms benefitting from fitted cupboards and one with an en suite shower room.
A white picket fence with pedestrian gates leads via a pathway to the front of the property and flanked by a pretty cottage garden with well stocked beds and borders, palm tree and an ornamental pond. A pedestrian gate to one side leads to the rear gardens.
To the rear of the property is a delightful part walled garden that is predominantly laid to lawn with well stocked shrub and flower borders and some mature trees. A generous terrace provides a lovely space for al fresco entertaining.
Location
Comprehensive Shopping: Sevenoaks (approx. 6.6 miles) and Tonbridge (approx. 4.1 miles) provide supermarkets and other high street retailers as well as a multitude of Pubs and Restaurants. Tunbridge Wells (approx. 9 miles) and Bluewater Shopping Centre (approx. 23.6 miles).
Mainline Rail Services: Tonbridge mainline station (approx. 4.6 miles) and Hildenborough station (approx. 4.3 miles) Sevenoaks Station (approx. 7.3 miles) to London Bridge/Charring Cross/Cannon Street.
Primary Schools: Shipbourne, Plaxtol, Kings Hill, Mereworth, Hadlow, Ightham and Borough Green.
Secondary Schools: Judd Boys Grammar, Weald of Kent Girls Grammar and Tonbridge Grammar. Knole Academy, Trinity and Weald of Kent Grammar Schools in Sevenoaks.
Private Schools: The Preparatory Schools at Somerhill. Hilden Grange Preparatory School in Tonbridge. Sevenoaks and Walthamstow Hall Schools in Sevenoaks. The Granville, Solefields and New Beacon Preparatory Schools in Sevenoaks. St Michaels and Russell House Preparatory Schools in Otford. Radnor House in Sundridge. Sackville in Hildenborough.
Leisure Facilities: Nizels Golf and Fitness centre in Hildenborough. Poult Wood Golf Club, Tonbridge. Also in Tonbridge are outdoor and indoor pools, the Angel Leisure Centre and a range of sporting clubs to include football, baseball, swimming and sailing.
All distances are approximate.
Square Footage: 1,243 sq ft
Directions
From junction 5 of the M25 with the A21, turn off onto the A25 heading east through Sevenoaks and Seal. After passing the Crown Point Inn, turn right signposted Ivy Hatch and continue through the village turning right at the ‘T’ junction onto the A227/Stumble Hill. Continue along the A227 and turn left into Upper Green Road opposite The Chaser public house. Continue to the end of the road and bear left and 3 Grange Cottages will be found right hand side.
Alternatively: From the M20, junction 2 take the A227 Tonbridge road and proceed through Borough Green, and Ightham to Shipbourne and continue as before.
Additional Info
Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
Tax band = E
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