7 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Stylishly modernised and bright country house
- Presented to a very high standard
- Useful ancillary accommodation & offices
- Fabulous outdoor heated pool with pool complex
- All weather court, significant outbuildings & garaging
- Mature gardens, paddocks and lake
- About 17.045 acres
- EPC Rating = D
Description
Close to Sutton Valence school, this historic property benefits from excellent secondary accommodation with beautiful and extensive gardens and grounds. All set in a delightful rural position with far reaching southerly view.
Main House
Approached over a tree lined and lake side private drive that winds from the lane to the property. Entrance hall, sitting room, family room, wc, utility room, laundry room, drawing room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, pantry, cellar.
Principal bedroom suite with dressing room and en-suite bathroom, a further six bedrooms with five en-suite bath/shower rooms.
The Granary
2 Garage/tractor stores, store room, 2 workshops, shower room and gardener’s wc, boardroom with wc and small kitchen area. Office space with kitchen, shower room, and store room giving access to a kitchen/living room and shower room with 2 bedrooms over.
Pool Complex
16m x 8m heated pool with jacuzzi, fire pit, stone built-in pizza oven, fully equipped covered outdoor kitchen and dining area, WC, two changing rooms with shower rooms, useful store room and plant room.
Outbuildings & Courtyard
New modern 29m x 9.5m barn. Workshop, extensive garaging for over 20 cars, with 3.5t in-ground hydraulic vehicle ramp. mezzanine storage floor, air conditioning, a WC with utility area.
Four electric car charging points, a car wash bay and hardstanding for ample external parking.
Planning Permission has been granted for the single storey barns on the south west side of the courtyard to be demolished and replaced with an indoor swimming pool (Maidstone Borough Council 17/501482/FULL)
Gardens & Grounds
Mature gardens including a walled kitchen garden, a heated greenhouse, potting shed, fully enclosed chicken house and run, octagonal summer house/treatment room. Floodlight 5G surface football pitch, basket ball and tennis court. Pavilion with mixed changing rooms, shower rooms and viewing area. Paddocks and 7 acre lake.
In all about 17.045 acres
Location
Comprehensive Shopping: can be found in Staplehurst (3.9 miles), Maidstone (5.9 miles), Tunbridge Wells (18.6 miles) and Ashford (19.1 miles). Bluewater shopping is located just off the M25 Junction 2 (A2/M2).
Mainline rail services: to London Charing can be found at Staplehurst (3.5miles) or from Maidstone East station into London Victoria. LeShuttle trains are available from Folkestone (33 miles)
Education: Like many parts of Kent there are an excellent range of schools nearby. In the state sector there are grammar schools for boys and girls in Maidstone, Cranbrook (boarding) and Tonbridge. There are also some local primary schools with excellent Ofsted reports. In the private sector there are independent girl and boy's schools in Sutton Valence, Canterbury and Tonbridge.
Motorway links: The M25 via the M20/M26 can be accessed at J5 and the M20 (6 miles) via J8 both providing links to Gatwick and Heathrow airport and other motorway networks.
Square Footage: 5,736 sq ft
Acreage: 17 Acres
Directions
From our Cranbrook office and heading north towards Staplehurst, continue over the railway bridge and on for about 1.5 miles and turn right at the (former) Cross in Hand garage signed to Chart Sutton. Proceed along this road for approximately 2.1 miles (passing The Lord Raglan public house) and the driveway to Heronden will be on the left hand side.
Additional Info
Further adjacent land up to a total of 80 acres is available by separate negotiation. As is Tawny Lodge, a recently built and stylishly presented detached property of 2,267 sq. ft. over two floors that again is adjacent in a large garden accessed over a separate private drive.
Ancillary Accommodation Council Tax Band
The Granary Tax Band: A
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