Little Combourne Cottage, Jarvis Lane, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 £1,850,000 Freehold

The most beautiful country house set in an idyllic rural position with panoramic views over the surrounding Kent countryside with attractive gardens, garaging and outbuildings together with approximately 29.5 acres of pasture, situated within the Cranbrook School catchment area.

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Little Combourne Cottage was built six years ago by the current owners to a very high specification using traditional materials to a modern sustainable design - whilst retaining the look and feel of a classical farmhouse. The interior has been beautifully crafted with oak timbers, beams and floorboards and double-glazed timber-framed windows. Virtually all the rooms have more than one aspect giving fabulous views over the orchards and fields - enhancing as much natural light as possible. A ground source heat pump provides under floor heating.

The generous accommodation is arranged over two floors providing ideal living and entertaining space for families with young and/or older children. On the ground floor there is a good-size entrance hall with an open timber staircase leading up to a galleried, vaulted landing on the first floor. There is a lovely sitting room with triple aspect and open, inglenook-style fireplace with a large oak mantle and wide oak floorboards.

The kitchen/breakfast room is a fabulous room - an important, practical focal point of the house. It is equipped with an attractive range of bespoke fitted units with granite worktops, an electric Aga and ceramic tiled floor and opens directly onto the garden. A large utility room leads off the kitchen, fitted with useful storage cupboards, plumbed for washing machines and dryer and houses the heat pump. In turn, it opens onto a rear porch/boot room. A separate, formal dining room with oak-framed windows to two sides and French doors overlooks and, opens onto the garden. There is a snug to one end of the kitchen and a sizable family room/study to the front of the house. There are four very good-size bedrooms on the first floor with most notably, an impressive master bedroom with vaulted ceiling and oak trusses and an en suite shower room. A large family bathroom with separate shower cubicle serves the other bedrooms. A large storage area in part of the eaves could potentially provide a fifth bedroom.

Gardens & Grounds The house sits in about an acre of formal garden with extensive lawns, pretty flower beds and a variety of maturing plants, shrubs and trees. The pasture land lies predominantly to the south and west of the property and is essentially divided by hedgerows into four fields. The outbuildings comprise an attractive timber-built garage for five cars - some of which could provide stabling and a large games room and separate plant room behind which provides excellent storage for garden machinery.

Situation The property is situated in a superb elevated position about one third of a mile up a farm track (owned by the property) and has uninterrupted views over its own fields and neighbouring orchards. It is approximately three miles north east of the village of Goudhurst, on the outskirts of the hamlet of Curtisden Green. Goudhurst is a pretty village popular for its attractive period houses, shops, ancient church, pubs and restaurants. Tunbridge Wells (11 miles) provides a comprehensive range of shopping facilities, restaurants and a good variety of other services and amenities - including a mainline service to London and the south coast.

This floorplan is for illustration purposes only and is not to scale. The position and size of doors, windows, appliances and other features are approximate.

Train Services Marden, Paddock Wood, Staplehurst

Shopping Goudhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Tenterden

Schools Bethany, Cranbrook School catchment area, Goudhurst & Collier Street Primary Schools, Kent College, Dulwich Prep School, Marlborough House, St Ronan's

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