A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A DETACHED BARN WITH PLANNING TO CHANGE TO RESIDENTIAL USE

WOODLANDS FARM BACK LANE, , , , TN11 9PP

Guide Price £900,000, Freehold.

SET IN A SEMI-RURAL LOCATION ON THE EDGE OF THIS POPULAR VILLAGE

7 Rooms • Kitchen • Utility room • Cloakroom • 2 Shower rooms • Ample off road parking • Garden • Planning permission: 16/02228/FL  EPC Rating = B  Council Tax = tbc

Situation • Woodlands Farm is located on the edge of the sought-after village of Shipbourne. The village includes the popular Chaser Inn and weekly award winning Farmers’ Market as well as the church, primary school and common. • Comprehensive Shopping: (6.6 miles) and Tonbridge (4.1 miles) provide supermarkets and other high street retailers as well as a multitude of Pubs and Restaurants. Tunbridge Wells (9 miles) and Bluewater Shopping Centre (23.6). • Mainline Rail Services: Tonbridge mainline station has a fast and frequent service to Bridge/Charring Cross/Cannon Street. • Primary Schools: Shipbourne, , , , , and . • Secondary Schools: Judd Boys Grammar, Weald of Kent Girls Grammar and Tonbridge Grammar. Knole Academy, Trinity and Weald of Kent Grammar Schools in Sevenoaks. • Private Schools: The Preparatory Schools at Somerhill. Hilden Grange Preparatory School in Tonbridge. Sevenoaks and Walthamstow Hall Schools in Sevenoaks. The Granville, Solefields and New Beacon Preparatory Schools in Sevenoaks. St Michaels and Russell House Preparatory Schools in Otford. Radnor House in Sundridge. • Leisure Facilities: Nizels Golf and Fitness centre in . Poult Wood Golf Club, Tonbridge. Also in Tonbridge are outdoor and indoor pools, the Angel Leisure Centre and a range of sporting clubs to include football, baseball, swimming and sailing. • Motorway Links: The M20 at Heath gives access to the M25, Gatwick and Heathrow Airports and the Channel Tunnel Terminus.

Description Woodlands Farm is a detached timber frame barn built in 2015 as a commercial property designed as ancillary accommodation to a training centre and now has planning permission to convert into a residential home. 16/02228/FL. Features include exposed wall and ceiling timbers, wooden sills, tiled floors and vaulted ceilings to the first floor. It is set in a semi-rural location on the edge of Shipboune and has an area of garden and countryside views.

Current layout • To the ground floor are two reception rooms with tiled floors and exposed wall and ceiling timbers. One of these rooms is open plan to a kitchen which is fitted with a range of wall and base units, a sink, electric cooker and hob. An adjacent utility room has additional storage cupboards and a sink together with a cloakroom. • Arranged over the first floor are five rooms and two modern shower rooms, all with vaulted ceilings.

Proposed layout • The ground floor layout would remain the same and the first floor would comprise a master bedroom and en suite shower room and three bedrooms with a shower room.

Outside • There is an area of tarmacadam drive to the front and side of the property providing ample parking, flanked by a brick edged lawn. There are two pedestrian gates leading to the rear where there is a large flagstone terrace and a level lawn stretching the depth of the plot which is bound by post and rail and close boarded fencing.

Agents Note The property is held by a Trust and the sale is subject to VAT which can be reclaimed through HMRC. Buyers that cannot or do not wish to pay VAT but still wish to make an offer can do so but in the knowledge that the Trust themselves will incur an additional VAT charge which will be factored into the consideration of any offer. Please contact David Johnson at Savills for more information or speak to your financial advisor.

Tenure Freehold

Services Oil fired central heating. Mains water, and electricity. Private drainage.

Local Authority Borough Council – 01732 844522.

Directions From junction 5 of the M25 with the A21, turn off onto the A25 heading east through Sevenoaks and Seal. After passing the Crown Point Inn, turn right signposted Ivy Hatch and continue through the village turning right at the ‘T’ junction onto the A227. Continue through the village of Shipbourne passing The Chaser public house on the right. Take the next left onto Back Lane where Woodlands Farm will be found along on the right-hand side.

Alternatively: From the M20, junction 2 take the A227 Tonbridge road and proceed through Borough Green, and Ightham to Shipbourne and continue as before.

Viewing Strictly by appointment with Savills.

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Gross internal area: 1575 sq ft, 146.4 m²

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