7 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Beautifully presented Edwardian family home in this attractive no through road
- Very convenient location being a walk of within 0.7 miles of the mainline station, historic Pantiles and High Street via Cumberland Walk
- Impressively spacious accommodation over three floors, with many lovely original period features
- Good-sized enclosed garden to the rear with level lawn, play area and paved terracing
- Driveway parking for several cars
- Well placed for a choice of private and state schools including the boys' and girls' Grammars
- Excellent sporting/leisure opportunities in the vicinity
- Planning permission for ground and second floor extension to create accommodation of 4,903 sq ft
- EPC Rating = E
Description
A very handsome Edwardian family home offering adaptable accommodation over three floors, together with a large garden and a prime location on the south side of town.
11 Blatchington Road has been lovingly refurbished and is immaculately presented throughout, with great attention to detail. Special care has been taken to enhance the original period features, including stripped and polished pine flooring on the ground floor, beautiful stained glass fanlights and insets to the windows and doors, pretty fireplaces, deep skirting boards and decorative cornicing and coving.
Impressive proportions are typical of the Edwardian period, and this property is no exception, with its attractive red brick entrance porch and light and spacious reception hall, with a striking balustrade staircase with carved oak newel posts.
The ground floor living space comprises a characterful kitchen/breakfast room and two well proportioned reception rooms. The kitchen/breakfast room overlooks the garden to the rear and features a wide brick fireplace with a wood burning stove, painted wall and base units, a double Belfast sink, a range-style cooker and space for white goods, including an American-style fridge/freezer.
The two formal reception rooms feature interesting fireplaces and big bay windows; the sitting room to the front has a good range of built-in bookshelves, whilst the drawing room is currently used as a family room and opens out through French doors to the garden. The cellar level houses the boiler and provides useful storage space.
There are seven bedrooms arranged over the top two floors providing plenty of scope for creating home office space, together with two well-appointed contemporary bath/shower rooms. Our clients are in the process of installing an additional en suite shower room on the second floor to serve bedroom 3, with plumbing in place, but it is not yet fitted.
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION
For those requiring further space, planning permission (Ref: 22/00571/FULL dated 22 April, 2022) has been granted for a single-storey rear extension and a two-storey side extension. This would create an attractive "double-fronted" elevation, re-configure the ground floor space to provide a large open plan kitchen/dining room with double doors out to the garden, a utility room and a bay windowed study, with a laundry room, en suite bath/shower room and dressing room on the first floor, and two additional shower rooms on the second floor.
A generously proportioned enclosed well-screened garden lies to the rear of the house, with extensive paved terracing for entertaining, a level lawn and steps down to further space for a childrens' play area enhanced by mature trees.
To the front, the property is set well back from Blatchington Road with a recently laid resin driveway providing off street parking and an area of lawn screened by laurel hedging.
Location
Tunbridge Wells lies about 30 miles south of London, surrounded by countryside and known for its architecture, cultural, leisure and shopping attractions. This wealth of amenities, together with the highly-regarded state and private schools, make the town a popular base for City commuters and their families.
Blatchington Road is tucked away off Warwick Park, approximately 0.7 of a mile on foot from the mainline station via the delightful Cumberland Walk, an attractive twitten where some of the town's impressive architecture can be appreciated, and linking to the stylish cafes, bars, restaurants and boutique shops in the High Street and Chapel Place.
The historic Pantiles Georgian shopping arcade with its bandstand and colonnaded shops is popular for markets and summer jazz evenings is even closer, being approximately half a mile.
Multiple retailers and restaurants are mostly found at the northern end of town, together with two theatres. There is out-of-town shopping, a multiplex cinema, health club and bowling alley at North Farm.
The area offers very good recreational options, including the vast space of the town’s Common which is lovely for dog walking. Local sports clubs, include the Lawn Tennis Club at the end of Blatchington Road, the Nevill Cricket club in Warwick Park and golf at The Nevill club, approximately 1.2 miles.
Private and state schools: There is a wide choice of schools in the area, including The Mead, Rose Hill and Holmewood House preparatory schools, Claremont Primary, Bennett Memorial and St Gregory’s state secondary schools, as well as the boys’ and girls’ Grammars in the St John's area and in Tonbridge. Independent secondary schools can be found in Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Mayfield, Benenden and Pembury, Upper Dicker, Eastbourne and Brighton.
Mainline station: Tunbridge Wells station has services to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street (via London Bridge & Waterloo East) from 47 minutes.
Communications: The M25 can be accessed at junction 5 via the A21, linking to London, the south coast and the other motorway networks, and thereby to Gatwick and Heathrow airports and the Channel Tunnel terminus.
Square Footage: 3,252 sq ft
Acreage: 0.2 Acres
Directions
From central Tunbridge Wells proceed south on the A26. At the mini roundabout by The Pantiles, turn left onto Nevill Street (A267) and take the first turning left into Warwick Park. Blatchington Road is the second road
on the left and number 11 will be found after a short distance on the left-hand side.
Additional Info
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council[use Contact Agent Button], Tax Band G
Services: Gas-fired central heating, mains water, electricity, drainage and gas
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