The Knoll IGHTHAM • KENT
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The Knoll IGHTHAM • KENT • cheshire • sk11 9aq E • C U • P w The Knoll COMMON ROAD • IGHTHAM • KENT • TN15 9DY A most impressive late Victorian country house with annexe potential set within glorious secluded grounds on the edge of popular Ightham village Entrance Vestibule • Reception Hall • Drawing Room • Dining Room • Sitting Room • Orangery Games Room • Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Secondary Kitchen • Utility Room • Two Cloakroom Basement: Playroom • Boiler Room Master Bedroom with En Suite Bathroom • Six Further Bedrooms Jack and Jill Bathroom • Family Bathroom • Shower Room. All Weather Tennis Court • Heated Swimming Pool Detached Double Garage • Pool House • Stables and Tack Room Formal Gardens • Grounds and Woodland EPC’s = D In Total 5.8 Acres Savills Sevenoaks 74 High Street Sevenoaks Kent TN13 1JR [email protected] 01732 789 700 Description The Knoll is a substantial detached property believed to date from the late 1800s with a later extension. Internally, the elegant and well proportioned accommodation is presented to a high standard throughout and arranged over three floors. The property has the benefit of a self contained annexe if required although it is currently incorporated within the main house. The elevations are red brick and tile hung, enhanced with stone mullioned windows and quoins, all under a tiled pitched roof. The established gardens and grounds are a delightful feature of the property with a heated swimming pool and all weather tennis court in the grounds. • Internal features include high ceilings with cornicing, brass finger plates, handles and switch plates and limestone, oak and parquet flooring. • The well proportioned principal reception rooms include an elegant drawing room with a Chesney's fireplace, window seating and a wonderful vista over the grounds to the rear. The sitting room has an impressive three quarter height stone mullion window to the front and door to side courtyard garden, together with fitted bookshelves. Along with the dining room these rooms provide excellent formal entertaining areas. • The kitchen/breakfast room, fitted by Great British Kitchens, has a range of walnut fronted cupboards to one wall and an extensive island unit with granite work surfaces incorporating a breakfast bar. Appliances include an oil fired Aga, Neff oven, two ring electric hob, space for fridge and freezer and integral dishwasher. The wide stone mullion bay window provides a seamless aspect over the attractive Japanese themed garden to the side. • An arched door leads to the Peter Edmondson Orangery which has bi-folding doors opening out onto the gardens. • The games room is triple aspect with double doors opening to the side terrace and access to a cloakroom. • Adjoining the games room is a well appointed secondary kitchen with appliances and together with the games room could be used as an annexe having access to the first floor bedrooms. • The well appointed utility room, cloakroom and storage room complete the ground floor accommodation. • The cellar comprises three rooms currently being used as a playrooms and storage, and houses the oil fired boiler. • A wide staircase rises to the generous first floor landing with an outlook to the side. • The master bedroom has a wide bay window and wonderful views over the grounds and is complimented by a well appointed modern en suite shower room. • The remaining bedrooms are all of excellent proportions with one benefitting from steps up to an adjoining Jack and Jill bathroom. • There is a spacious and well appointed family bathroom with separate shower cubicle, and a separate shower room which completes the first floor accommodation. OUTSIDE • The house is approached over a sweeping driveway with electric wrought iron gates, flanked by rhododendrons and culminating in a substantial parking area to the front of the property and the double garage which has an electrically operated up and over door. • The established gardens are a feature of the property and entirely surround the house providing seclusion. There are large areas of level lawn with trees and shrubs to include beech, oak, rhododendron and azalea. An attractive Japanese themed garden by the kitchen is enclosed to one side by larch fencing and has shingle beds and a rockery incorporating a water feature and shaded by a mature acer. The gardens are bordered by woodland which is interspersed with paths. • In the grounds is an enclosed all weather tennis court and a heated swimming pool with attractive summerhouse housing the pool equipment. The stable yard comprises two loose boxes and a separate tack/feed store enclosed by a post and rail fence. Situation • The Knoll is approximately half a mile from the centre of the historical and picturesque village of Ightham which is set in the heart of Kent, and the beautiful manor house of Ightham Mote, now owned by the National Trust, is just a few miles to the South of the village. • Comprehensive Shopping: Sevenoaks (4.5 miles), Tonbridge and Bluewater in Dartford. • Mainline Rail Services: Sevenoaks and Hildenborough to Cannon Street/Charing Cross. Borough Green to Victoria. • Primary Schools: Ightham, Plaxtol & Shipbourne.Boswell’s CEP Schools. • State Schools: Sevenoaks, Borough Green, Tonbridge & Tunbridge Wells. • Private Schools: Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Walthamstow Hall Secondary Schools. Sevenoaks, Solefields and New Beacon Preparatory Schools in Sevenoaks. St Michaels and Russell House Preparatory Schools in Otford. Combe Bank School in Sundridge. • Leisure Facilities: Bridle paths and walks in the local area. Wildernesse and Knole Golf Clubs in Sevenoaks. Nizels Golf Club with private health/fitness centre in Hildenborough. • Connections: The M20/M26 can be accessed at the Wrotham interchange which is about 3 miles away linking to other motorway networks, Gatwick, City and Heathrow Airports and the Channel Tunnel Terminus. DIRECTIONS From Sevenoaks head in an easterly direction along the A25 over Seal Chart and past the Crown Point public house on the right. Continue for a further half a mile and turn right into Common Road (signed Ightham Common). The Knoll is the first entrance on the right hand side. Gross interna l areaa (la aprperao x(a.)pprox.) The Kno ll, Ight ham House - 463.7 s4q6 3m.7 ( 4s9q9 m1 s(4q9 f9t)1 sq ft) Garage - 30.9 s q3 0m.9 ( 3s3q2 m s q(3 f3t)2 sq ft) Pool house - 11s.2e s- q1 1m.2 ( 1s2q0 m s q(1 f2t)0 sq ft) For idSenttaifibcaletiosn -o n3ly0 -. 4No st tqo3 s0mc.a4 l(e 3s2q7 m s q(3 f2t)7 sq ft) © nly - Not to scale True plan (U K) Lim ited im ited Dra 6.7 22'1 Secondary kitchen 4.56 x 2.39 GENERAL REMARKS 1 4'11'' x 7'10'' Outgoings Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council – 01732 844522. Services Games room Oil fired central heating via radiators. Mains water, electricity and drainage. Utility Di 5.53 x 4.54 room 4.4 18'1' x 14'11'' COUNCIL TAX BAND 14' The Knoll E South Wing D Boiler Viewing room Strictly by appointment with Savills on 01732 789700. If there is any point which is of particular importance to you, we invite you to discuss this with us, especially before you travel to view the property. Ground floor IMPORTANT NOTICE Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1. They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no Playroom responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. Cellar AB/612032 Brochure prepared March 2016. Tack roo m Orangery Pool house 5.48 x 4.44 Stable 4.51 x 2.50 17'11'' x 14'7'' nly - Not to scale m ited 14'9'' x 8'2'' 3.52 x 3.45 11'6'' x 1 1 '4 '' l, Ightham awing room 74 x 4.86 Stable '' x 15'11'' 3.52 x 3.45 11'6'' x 11'4'' Garage 5.39 x 5.73 17'8'' x 18'9'' Kitchen / Breakfast room Master bedroom ning room 4.84 x 4.40 Sitting room 7.06 x 4.53 23'1'' x 14'10'' 15'10'' x 14'5'' 44 x 4.35 Bedroom 6.38 x 4.51 6'' x 14'3'' 20'11'' x 14'9'' 4.79 x 4.67 15'8'' x 15'3'' Restricted height Bedroom 3.59 x 3.14 11'9'' x 10'3'' Bedroom Bedroom 5.56 x 4.67 Bedroom 18'3'' x 11'4'' 4.71 x 4.20 Bedroom 3.21 x 3.16 15'5'' x 13'9'' 10'6'' x 10'4'' 4.77 x 3.14 15'8'' x 10'3'' First floor Savills Sevenoaks 74 High Street Sevenoaks Kent TN13 1JR [email protected] 01732 789 700.