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Clearmount House The Hill Charing, Kent TN27 0LU

A wonderful detached Georgian house combining a high specification with both contemporary and traditional styling and having superb proportions, set within its own private gardens with coach house, tucked away a short distance from the village centre.

Guide Price: £995,000

Accommodation • Reception hall • Inner hall • Cloakroom • Drawing room • Dining room • Family room • Study/playroom • Kitchen/breakfast room • Basement cinema room & gym • 5 Bedrooms (2 en-suite) • Family bathroom Oak floors• Fireplaces • Central heating • Double glazing Gardens • Automated entrance gates • Lawned gardens • Delightful rear courtyard in Italianate style • Raised beds • Hidden lighting • Pleached hornbeam Water feature • Coach house (lapsed planning for conversion) Communications • Ashford Int. Station – 6 miles • Main line station – 1 mile • M20 motorway (Jct 9) – 5 miles • Canterbury – 12 miles Situation Bathrooms are fitted in cool contemporary Clearmount House is situated at the upper end styles with power showers. of the centre in the historic village of Charing Gardens which is on the ancient Pilgrims Way along the The gardens lie principally to three sides of North Downs and within a designated Area the house and are laid to lawns with mature of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village boundaries of high clipped hedging. The is best known for one of the oldest manor entrance is via automated and remote operated residences of the Archbishop of Canterbury gates hung between two brick piers providing and there is a strong community spirit centred access onto the driveway. An ancient Beech around the High Street period shops and tree is featured within this part of the garden. services. Clearmount House is tucked away within a private close of just 3 other individual The rear courtyard is delightful and designed in properties although Clearmount House is Italianate influence with Pleached Hornbeam, approached via private automated entrance Wisteria, raised beds, hidden lighting, and a gates. water feature. Adjacent is a detached former Coach House of brick elevations with timber Nearby road links provide excellent access doors beneath a pitched slate roof (29’10 x to the surrounding towns of Faversham (8 12’2) with the original stable floor and stalls. miles), Maidstone (11 miles), Canterbury (12 This building has a number of potential uses miles) and Ashford (just 6 miles) including the subject to any necessary planning consent, International Station which provides 37 minute there has previously been consent for high speed trains to London St. Pancras. conversion to an annexe which has now lapsed. The surrounding North Downs countryside provides a wealth of leisure pursuits and there Services is an excellent choice of both state and private All mains services connected. schools in the locality. Directions Clearmount House From the M20 Motorway, leave at Junction A fabulous detached house believed to 9 and to the A20 and follow signs to Lenham/ have Georgian origins with many reformed Charing A20. After about 5 miles, turn right characteristics from an extensive restoration into the village of Charing and proceed up and renovation programme in 2003. through the village centre towards the top of The accommodation is of bright and spacious the hill. The entrance to Clearmount House proportions combining contemporary styling will be found on the left hand side prior to and original character including high coved reaching the top of the hill and well before the ceilings, double glazed sash style windows, junction. elegant reproduction Georgian fireplaces within Agent’s Note the main reception rooms and mellow oak floors. There is a modern wiring circuit with Fixtures and fittings not specifically referred to recessed lighting and lamp points. There is a within these particulars, along with some of the superb kitchen/breakfast room with bespoke contents, may be available by negotiation and fittings and integral appliances together with purchase. marble and oak surfaces, over mantle and a Viewing living flame gas fire. In addition to a choice Important Notice We have not tested any services, appliances, All descriptions, dimensions, areas and necessary Strictly by appointment only (Ref: C1317). equipment or facilities, and nothing in these permissions for use and occupation and other of impressive reception rooms, there is a These particulars have been prepared in all good particulars should be deemed to be a statement details are given in good faith but any intending basement which has been used as a gym and faith to give a fair overall view of the property that they are in good working order or that purchaser must satisfy themselves by inspection or and must not be relied upon as statements or the property is in good structural condition or further detailed request. cinema room. representations of fact. Purchasers must satisfy otherwise. The information in these particulars is given On the first floor, there are 5 bedrooms themselves by inspection or otherwise regarding It should not be assumed that any contents/ without responsibility on the part of the agents the items mentioned below and as to the content furnishings/furniture etc. photographed are or their clients. These particulars do not form of which 2 are en-suite along with a family of these particulars. included in the sale, nor that the property remains any part of an offer or a contract and neither the bathroom, one of the smaller bedrooms is If any points are particularly relevant to your as displayed in the photograph(s). No assumption agents nor their employees have any authority to currently used as a dressing room. interest in the property please ask for further should be made with regards to parts of the make or give any representations or warranties information. property that have not been photographed. whatsoever in relation to this property. 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