No onward Chain. A charming semi-detached character cottage benefitting from rural views to the rear and planning permission to extend in this convenient location near Bewl Water and Bedgebury Pinetum, comprising: kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, ground floor bathroom, two bedrooms and a loft room. To the rear of the property is a long garden with a garden store. EPC Rating: E

Christmas Cottage is a charming semi-detached period cottage, presented in excellent decorative order and displaying character features including an inglenook fireplace, drop-latch doors and exposed beams. The property benefits from double glazing throughout.

The accommodation is arranged over three floors and there is planning permission (ref. RR/2022/391/P) to extend the property to the rear to create a larger kitchen/dining room, a new entrance hall with shower room located off it and a new first floor bathroom.

The property is approached via a front picket gate, with a pathway leading to the front door and around to the side gate, providing access to the rear garden. There is a small area of garden to the front of the cottage with mature hedging providing screening from the road.

The front door opens into a small porch, which in turn leads into the front sitting room. This room is dominated by a beautiful brick inglenook fireplace with bressummer beam, iron grate and flu. Stairs rise to the first floor. Exposed timbers. Double glazed sash window to front. Door leading through to the kitchen.

The kitchen/breakfast room is fitted with a range of painted wall and base units with wooden worktops. There is a butler-style sink, integrated oven and gas hob plus space for a washing machine and fridge. A stable-style door lead out to the side terrace and rear garden. Double glazed window to the side.

A small hallway leading off the kitchen, with built-in cupboard, leads to the ground floor bathroom, which is fitted with a white suite including panelled bath with shower over, WC and washbasin. Double glazed mottled glass window to the rear.

Arranged over the first floor is the principal bedroom, with under-stairs cupboard and double glazed sash window providing a view out over the cricket green to the front, and a single bedroom. Accessed off the second bedroom, a staircase rises to the second floor, where the attic has been converted into another room, benefitting from views out to the rear via skylights and eaves storage cupboards.

To the rear of the cottage, the garden is approximately 20m in length and features a brick paved patio, ideal for summer drinks/dining, agood stretch of lawn and a decked terrace that backs on to farmland, affording lovely rural views. There is also a generous garden store with power and lighting, which can accommodate a tumble dryer and freezer, as well as the usual garden implements.

The cottage is located on the High Street in Flimwell, opposite the village cricket green and backing onto fields. Flimwell is a small village located about 3 miles West of Hawkhurst and 2 miles North-East of Ticehurst, with the A21 running through it from Hastings in the South to the M25 and London to the North, making this a highly convenient location for road access to the coast and motorway network.

Not far from the cottage is a bistro pub (The Royal Oak, that serves premium fish and chips) and a village hall that was newly opened in 2020, and hosts a number of classes and private bookings. There is also a tasty ice cream parlour attached to it. Within a third of a mile of the cottage is an award-winning smokery and delicatessen with café. There is also a Church. The area is most widely known due to its proximity to Bewl Water Reservoir and Bedgebury Pinetum, two star attractions of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, offering wonderful walking, cycling and riding opportunities within a mile or two.

Hawkhurst, Ticehurst and Wadhurst all provide further amenities including schools and Waitrose and Tesco supermarkets in Hawkhurst. The larger shopping centre of Royal Tunbridge Wells is located about 12 miles away.

Stonegate and Etchingham stations are about 6 miles equidistant away, providing services to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street (Stonegate to London Bridge in under 1 hr).

Mains gas fired central heating. Mains water, electricity and drainage.
Rother District Council
Council Tax Band: C

Council Tax Band: C
Tenure: Freehold