Attractive family home, offered with planning permission & no onward chain.

Description

Knaves Acre is an attractive, part tile hung detached family home, located on the edge of the popular village of Yalding, with its village shop, post office, pubs, pre-school nursery, primary school and GP surgery. The property, built in the 1950s and offered with no onward chain, provides bright, versatile and well-proportioned accommodation, with the opportunity for the incoming purchaser to update and renovate as required, subject to the necessary building consents. Salient points including newly fitted carpets and bathroom suites, an attractive open fireplace, some new windows and doors and four double bedrooms. Also of note is the lovely, level rear garden that amounts to about 0.28 of an acre, a detached double garage and ample driveway parking.

The property benefits from planning permission for a two storey rear extension - 22/502467/FULL.

The reception rooms comprise a generous, double aspect sitting/dining room features an attractive brick fireplace and a set of sliding doors, which provide views over and access to the rear garden and a study with views to the front.

The kitchen features a range of wall and base units, a walk-in pantry, space for appliances and a door leading to outside.

A well-appointed cloakroom completes the ground floor.

Arranged over the first floor are four well-proportioned bedrooms, three with fitted storage.

A modern shower room and a separate WC complete the accommodation.

The house is approached via a driveway which leads to the detached double garage and is flanked on each side by areas of lawn, with an established sycamore tree to the boundary.

The level rear garden is a real feature and forms a lovely backdrop to the property. A paved terrace, with an attractive, adjoining pond, spans the width of the property and provides an ideal area for al fresco entertaining. The garden is mainly laid to lawn, interspersed by established specimen trees and has two sheds and a greenhouse.

In total, the plot amounts to about 0.28 of an acre.

Location

Comprehensive Shopping: Paddock Wood (4.1 miles), Maidstone (5.9 miles), Tonbridge (9.3 miles). Tunbridge Wells (11 miles).

Mainline Rail Services: Paddock Wood (5.3 miles) to London Bridge/Cannon Street/Charing Cross.

School Buses: In addition to the 23 / 26 buses to Maidstone, there is a 207 which operates on school days only to Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells giving access to the Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells grammar schools, and to Bennett Memorial School.
Primary Schools: Yalding, Laddingford and Collier Street.

Grammar Schools: Maidstone - Maidstone Grammar School, Maidstone Grammar School for Girls, Invicta Grammar School, Oakwood Park Grammar School. Tonbridge - Tonbridge Grammar School, Weald of Kent Grammar School, The Judd School. Tunbridge Wells - Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys, Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School, The Skinners’ School.
State Schools: Maidstone, Tonbridge and Paddock Wood. Private Schools: The Preparatory Schools at Somerhill. Hilden Grange in Tonbridge. Sutton Valence. Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Public Schools.

Leisure Facilities: David Lloyd Health Club at Kings Hill. The Hop Farm and Country Park in Paddock Wood. Leisure centres in Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone. Poult Wood Golf Course in Hadlow, Kings Hill Golf Club and West Malling Golf Club.

All distances are approximate.

Square Footage: 1,574 sq ft


Acreage: 0.28 Acres

Directions

From Sevenoaks High Street head south on the A225. Continue down River Hill bearing right towards the roundabout. At the roundabout take the second exit onto the A21. Continue for approx.5.4 miles and take the A26 exit to Tonbridge. At the roundabout take the second exit onto the A26. At the next roundabout take the third exit onto the B2017 (Tudeley Road). Continue for approx.3.7 miles and at the next roundabout take the first exit onto the A228 (Maidstone Road). At the following roundabout take the third exit onto the A228 and after 0.4 miles turn left onto Beltring Road. At the end of the road take a slight left turn onto Lees Road and continue into Yalding village, before turning left onto Kenward Road. Continue on this road for approx. 0.2 miles, passing Medway Avenue on the right and Knaves Acre can be found on the right, shortly thereafter.