Castweazel Manor Fosten Lane, , , TN27 8EW Ground Floor First Floor 2nd Floor • Drawing Room • Master Bedroom with En Suite • Games Room Castweazel Manor • Dining Room Bathroom • Shower Room • Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Guest Bedroom with En Suite Shower • 3 further Bedrooms A handsome Grade II * listed Manor House, sympathetically renovated and • Family Room Room Outside extended in a delightful rural setting at the end of a half a mile drive with about • Laundry Room • 2 further Bedrooms • Double Garage • Cloakroom • Study/Bedroom 5 10 acres of mature gardens and grounds with attractive ponds. • Swimming Pool • Rear Hall • Gardens and Grounds in all • Cellar around 10 Acres AMENITIES Castweazel Manor is in a delightful rural setting yet within 1.75 miles of the pretty village of Biddenden and within the Cranbrook school catchment area. Biddenden village has amenities for everyday needs including tea rooms, church, village shop/ post office, pubs and restaurants. Cranbrook and with their tree-lined streets are 5.5 and 5.1 miles distant respectively and offer an excellent range of specialist shops, boutiques and restaurants. A more comprehensive range of shopping facilities are available at Tunbridge Wells and Ashford. Ashford International is 14 miles distant with Eurostar fast links to London and the Continent There are also rail services available in , 4.8 miles, to London Bridge in approximately 1 hour. The area is well served by favoured schools and in addition to Cranbrook School there is School and Dulwich Preparatory in Cranbrook, Marlborough House and Saint Ronan’s in Hawkhurst, Bethany School in Goudhurst, Sutton Valence School, Kings at Canterbury and Grammar schools in Ashford and Tunbridge Wells. DESCRIPTION Castweazel Manor is an historic Grade II * listed C15 Manor House with attractive elevations of plaster infilling timber frame. The property retains a wealth of period features with high heavily timbered ceilings, mullioned windows, fireplaces, broad oak floor boards and joinery. Attractive views are enjoyed over the mature gardens on all sides. Castweazel Manor was sold before 1460 by John de Castwisell to the Moyle family who later moved to Eastwell Manor near Ashford. The present large, L-shaped house dates from the mid-sixteenth century, when it was owned by the Roger family. The stylishly presented accommodation incudes some notable light and spacious rooms: • Entrance doorway leads through to an impressive drawing room with an inglenook fireplace, broad bressumer beam with brick hearth and timbered ceiling. • The dining room is dual aspect with an exposed brick fireplace, oak floorboards. • The rear hall has brick flooring and stone mullioned windows to the rear. • To one side is a lobby with a cloakroom, laundry room, and a door to the garden. • There is an excellent kitchen/breakfast room with Smallbone units under granite working surfaces, oak fronted and painted units, electric Aga with gas and electric companion, York stone flooring and a door through to family room. • The fantastic family room is triple aspect with an impressive vaulted ceiling with exposed oak joinery, flag stone floor and 2 sets of doors to the garden.

• Spacious landing with open oak studwork and joinery • Master bedroom with broad oak floor boards, window to the side, inglenook fireplace and en suite bathroom with panelled bath, walk in shower and window to the side. • Guest bedroom, triple aspect and en suite Bathroom with roll top bath, separate shower cubicle. • The first floor also has 2 further double bedrooms and a study/bedroom 5. • Stairs to an extensive attic second floor. Bedroom with a window to the rear with lovely views, door to games room which in turn has door to 2 further bedrooms and a shower room. OUTSIDE Castweazel Manor is set at the end of a long drive in a rural setting surrounded by it’s own land. The drive sweeps round to an extensive parking area and a detached double garage. There is a picturesque pond to one side, lawn areas with mature trees and mixed hedging. To the rear is a south west facing terrace with a parterre rose garden to one side. Beyond this is a large level area of lawn, a swimming pool with paved surround an ornate wall with hydrangeas and a giant chess board. The gardens are a mixture of established shrubs and specimen trees with areas of paddock and two further ponds. Gardens and grounds including the drive about 9.75 acres. DIRECTIONS From Biddenden turn onto the A262 towards Cranbrook on the road, after 0.7 of a mile turn left onto Fosten lane. After a further 0.5 of a mile turn right into a farm track with a telegraph pole on right (just after High Poles Farm on left) Castweazel Manor will be found at the end (about 0.5 of a mile)

Additional Information: Local Authority: Ashford District Council. Services: Oil fired central heating. Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Links: www.environment-agency.gov.uk, www.highways.gov.uk, www.caa.co.uk, www.landregistry.gov.uk Tenure: Freehold. Land Registry Title Number K925983 Lot 2: Castweazel Oast available by separate negotiation. GUIDE PRICE £1,975,000

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NOTE: Batcheller Monkhouse give notice that: 1. These particulars including text, photographs and any plans are Castweazel Manor, Fosten Lane, Biddenden, TN27 8EW for the guidance of prospective APPROX. GROSS INTERNAL FLOOR AREA 5446 SQ FT 505.9 SQ METRES (EXCLUDES RESTRICTED HEAD HEIGHT & GARAGE) purchasers only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact; 2. The particulars do not constitute

Bedroom 7 any part of a Contract; 15'10 (4.83) 3. Any description provided herein Bedroom 8 x 9'8 (2.95) 19'1 (5.82) max represents a subjective opinion x 15'5 (4.70) max and should not be construed as Down statements of fact; Garage Cellar 4. A detailed survey has not been 27'7 (8.41) 17'11 (5.46) x 17'7 (5.36) Storage carried out, nor have any services, x 15'11 (4.85) Games Room 19'11 (6.07) appliances or specific fittings been x 13'3 (4.04) tested; 5. All measurements and distances are approximate; 6. We strongly advise that a prospective purchaser should contact the agent to check any information Closet which is of particular importance, 10'10 (3.30) Bedroom 4 particularly for anyone who will be x 9' (2.74) 21'1 (6.43) Bedroom 6 x 9'7 (2.97) 19'8 (5.99) travelling some distance to view the Family Room Bedroom 1 x 15'10 (4.83) 22'8 (6.91) 20'4 (6.20) max Kitchen / property; x 17'5 (5.31) x 18'7 (6.77) to bay Breakfast Room 7. Where there is reference to 22'6 (6.86) max Bedroom 5 x 18' (5.49) planning permission or potential, Drawing Room 16'11 (5.16) 32' (9.75) max x 9'5 (2.87) such information is given in good x 19'1 (5.82) faith. Purchasers should make Up SECOND FLOOR Up their own enquiries of the relevant

Entrance Hall Down Bedroom 3 authority; 18'1 (5.51) 16'9 (5.11) 8. Any fixtures & fittings not x 11'1 (3.38) max x 10'1 (3.07) mentioned in the sales particulars are excluded from the sale, but various items may be available, Boiler subject to separate negotiation. Denotes restricted

head height Dining Room 19'3 (5.87) min Bedroom 2 x 16'6 (5.03) 20'9 (6.32) x 19'7 (5.97) max

GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of the floor plan contained here, measurements of doors, windows and rooms are approximate and no responsibility is taken for any error, omission or misstatement. These plans are for representation purposes only as defined by RICS Code of Measuring Practice and should be used as such by any prospective purchaser. Specifically no guarantee is given on the total square footage of the property if quoted on this plan. Any figure given is for initial guidance only and should not be relied on as a basis of valuation. Copyright nichecom.co.uk 2018 Produced for Batcheller Monkhouse REF : 370375 MAYFAIR office. co. uk

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