The Grange , The Grange PLAXTOL, KENT

An attractive country house in a coveted location with superb views over its own land and the surrounding countryside.

Accommodation Reception hall • Drawing room • Sitting room • Dining room • Kitchen/breakfast room Utility room • Games room • Extensive cellars

Master bedroom suite with bathroom • Eight further bedrooms Three further bathrooms (one en suite) • Cinema room

Annexe with sitting room, kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom

Swimming pool • Tennis court • Ragstone barn Stable yard with three loose boxes, tack room and extensive storage Ménage • Outbuildings

Very attractive gardens and grounds • Paddocks and pasture land • Woodland

In all about 43 acres

Square footaqes Main house – 10,350 sq ft (932 sq m) Outbuildings – 2,664 sq ft (247 sq m)

Sevenoaks Country Department 113-117 High Street, 55 Baker Street, TN13 1UP London W1U 8AN Tel: +44 1732 744477 Tel: +44 20 7861 1552 [email protected] [email protected] www.knightfrank.co.uk

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the brochure. • Situation• The Property • – 3 miles • The Grange is a wonderful Grade II* listed country S • – 6 miles house enjoying a secluded setting on the edge • Sevenoaks – 6 miles of a much coveted village east of Sevenoaks • Central London – 31 miles and with extensive views over the surrounding countryside. • Sevenoaks – 7 miles • The Grange was built, we understand, in T • London Bridge from 25 minutes 1702 on the site of an Elizabethan house and • Cannon Street from 32 minutes further additions to the house and landscaping • Charing Cross from 34 minutes to the gardens were undertaken by Sir Edwin • Borough Green & – 3 miles Lutyens in 1926. The house features in Sir • London Victoria from 50 minutes Nickolas Pevsner’s book, Buildings of , • Gatwick Airport – 31 miles where its very attractive Queen Anne front A • Heathrow Airport – 52 miles elevation is described as ‘an eccentric early 18th century front.’ • M26 (Junction 2A) – 4 miles M • M20 (Junction 3) – 6 miles • The Grange works extremely well as both a • M25 (Junction 5) – 8 miles family and entertaining house with fine reception rooms and extensive bedroom accommodation • Marlborough House, Cranbrook arranged over three floors. There are delightful E • Brambletye, East Grinstead period features throughout including an elegant • • New Beacon, Sevenoaks galleried reception hall, early chimney pieces • • Holmewood House, Tunbridge Wells and some delightful panelling and the principal • • Yardley Court, Tonbridge reception rooms have a wonderful outlook. • • Ashdown House, Forest Row The reception rooms are complemented by a • • Windlesham House, Pulborough superb kitchen/breakfast room which leads to • • Vinehall. Robertsbridge the games room. • • The bedroom accommodation is extensive • Bendenden, Cranbrook with an excellent master bedroom suite being • • Tonbridge School • Lingfield H joined by a guest bedroom suite, four further • • Sevenoaks School • Knepp Castle bedrooms and two bathrooms on the first floor • • Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks • s • Bough Beech, Bewl Water and Weirwood with a further three bedrooms and a cinema on • Wildernesse, Sevenoaks Reservoirs the second floor. G • Knole Park, Sevenoaks • There are an abundance of footpaths and • In addition there is a self-contained annexe • Nizels, W bridleways giving immediate access to the Kent with sitting room, kitchen, bathroom and two • Hever Castle Golf Club, Edenbridge countryside in what is designated an Area of bedrooms which provides ideal staff or guest • Westerham Golf Club Outstanding Natural Beauty. accommodation.

Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area House: 932.3 sq.m (10035 sq.ft.) Outbuildings: 125.2 sq.m (1347 sq.ft.) Stables / Barns: 122.4 sq.m (1317 sq.ft.)

Not shown in actual location/orientation Second Floor Cellar

First Floor

Reception Bedroom Bathroom Kitchen/Utility Storage This plan is for layout guidance only. Not drawn to scale unless stated. Windows & door openings Terrace are approximate. Whilst every care is taken in Ground Floor Not shown in actual location/orientation the preparation of this plan, please check all dimensions, shapes & compass bearings before Recreation making any decisions reliant upon them. Annexe

Gardens and Grounds • The gardens and grounds are a particular ménage. There are three large paddocks and feature of The Grange and provide a a belt of attractive woodland. wonderful setting for the house with beautiful • To the north of the house on the other side of soft and hard landscaping. The gardens have the lane is an area of pasture land extending been well designed and maintained with a to circa 25 acres, currently divided into two selection of fine specimen shrubs and trees fields. in a blend of formal and informal gardens and • The house is approached by a gravel drive include a swimming pool and a tennis court. with a spur continuing onto the stable • In addition there is a stable yard with three block. Adjacent to the drive is a wonderful loose boxes, a tack room and significant 18th century barn built of brick and Kentish outbuildings as well as an all-weather Ragstone.

Services Mains water and electricity, private drainage, oil fired central heating

Local Authority Borough Council Tel: 01732 876124

Fixtures and Fittings THE GRANGE Only those mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. All others, such as fitted carpets, curtains, light fittings, garden ornaments etc., are specifically excluded but may be made available by separate negotiation.

Rights of Way There are two public rights of way crossing the land to the north of the house as detailed on the boundary plan. There are no public rights of way crossing the land which forms the main gardens and grounds of The Grange.

Directions (Postcode TN15 0RG) Leave the M25 at Junction 2, signposted Wrotham. At the principal roundabout in Wrotham, follow signs to Borough Green on the A227. Continue down the main

Note: “This plan is based upon the Ordnance street, over the railway line, turn right and continue on Survey map with the sanction of the control of H.M. Stationary office. This plan is for convenience of the A227. Pass through the village of and just purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. Licence Number. No. ES100017767.” after the signpost to Ivy Hatch turn left into Plaxtol Lane signposted Plaxtol. At the junction in the village turn left Important Notice: Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of one. You should not rely on statements by Knight Frank LLP in the particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) as being factually accurate about the property, its by the church along Tree Lane and take the first right condition or its value. Neither Knight Frank LLP nor any joint agent has any authority to make any representations about the property, into Grange Hill. The Grange is situated approximately and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s). Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and distances 200 yards on the right hand side. given are approximate only. Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt with and that all information is correct. VAT: The VAT position relating to the property Viewing may change without notice. Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England with registered number OC305934. Our registered office is 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, where you may look at a list of members’ names. Viewings are strictly by appointment only via Knight Photographs: June 2016. Particulars: July 2016. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087. Frank.