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Home Farm WEST MALLING • KENT Home Farm WEST MALLING • KENT • cheshire • sk11 9aq E • C U • P w Home Farm FARTHERWELL ROAD • WEST MALLING • KENT • ME19 6RH Impressive and stylish family home with spacious accommodation, equestrian facilities and far reaching countryside views Vaulted Reception Hall • Drawing Room • Dining Room Sitting Room • Study • Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Utility Room Cloakroom • Two Bedrooms • Bathroom Master Suite • Three further bedrooms (Two with En Suite) Shower Room Garaging • Stable Block Established gardens • Paddocks (2 acres) Planning permission to build a 40m x 20m sand school - 13/00044/FL EPC = C Total area about 3.1 acres Savills Sevenoaks 74 High Street Sevenoaks Kent TN13 1JR [email protected] 01732 789 700 Description Home Farm is an individually designed property with the subtle blend of stylish and contemporary features and more traditional characteristics. The property has generously proportioned accommodation which is well presented throughout with modern bathroom suites and a bespoke kitchen. Other features include vaulted ceilings with roof lights, full height windows and glazed doors, oak and slate flooring, exposed stone walls and some exposed timbers. The property benefits from an outbuilding providing garaging and storage, a stable block and three paddocks. In total the plot amounts to about 3.1 acres. • A glazed entrance hall features a vaulted glazed ceiling and stairs rising to the galleried first floor landing. • The principal reception rooms provide excellent areas for entertaining and are all double aspect with the drawing room and sitting room both having direct access to outside. The drawing room features a wood burning stove and the dining room is open to the kitchen/breakfast room. • The kitchen/breakfast room is fitted with a bespoke range of base cupboards with a matching island unit with oak work surfaces incorporating a butler sink and a breakfast bar. Appliances include an Aga, Siemans dishwasher and space for a fridge/freezer. The adjacent utility room provides additional storage cupboards and space for appliances. There is access to outside where a heated boot cupboard is located. • A study has built in cupboards and an outlook to the front. • A stylish cloakroom has a cupboard housing the hot water cylinder. • Two of the six bedrooms are located on the ground floor and are well proportioned and served by a modern well appointed bathroom. • The galleried landing is vaulted with an outlook to the front. • The master suite comprises a spacious vaulted bedroom with skylight windows and eaves storage, a dressing area, walk-in wardrobe and stylish en suite bathroom with separate shower cubicle and Chinese slate tiling. • There are three further bedrooms, all with far reaching views over the adjoining countryside, and two are served by well appointed en suite shower rooms. • Completing the accommodation is a further shower room. • The house is approached over a shared drive which in turn leads to the gravelled drive of Home Farm. The drive opens out to a substantial gravelled courtyard which provides ample parking and features attractive raised timber edged shrub beds. • The outbuilding provides garaging and excellent storage which could be converted to provide additional accommodation (subject to the necessary planning and building regulations.) • To the side and rear of the house are paved terraces and a timber arbour adorned with honeysuckle, which provide ideal areas for al fresco entertaining is located. The expansive lawns are interspersed by trees and stone edged beds and borders. • The post and rail enclosed stable block comprises three loose boxes, a hay barn and tack room. Power, light and water connected. • The remainder of the land is divided into three separate post and rail paddocks with five bar gates. These three paddocks amount to about 2 acres. • Planning permission is in place to build a 40m x 20m sand school to be located behind the stable block. Situation • Amenities: West Malling, which is just over a mile by road and offers an excellent range of local shopping facilities together with a number of public houses, restaurants, station GP surgery and a monthly famer market. There are a number of footpaths in the area offering country walks. Offham (1 mile) has a village hall, church, tennis club, cricket green and Spadeworks which is a nursery selling plants with a cafe and a farmers market each month. • Comprehensive Shopping: West Malling (1.1 mile), Borough Green (4.6 miles), Maidstone (7.4 miles), Sevenoaks (11.1 miles) and Bluewater (19.6 miles). • Mainline Rail Services: West Malling or Borough Green to Victoria, Blackfriars and St Pancras. Sevenoaks to Charing Cross or Cannon Street www.nationalrail.co.uk. • Primary Schools: West Malling, Offham, Kings Hill, Platt and Ryarsh. www.kent-pages.co.uk/education. • Grammar/State Schools: Maidstone, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. • Private Schools: Sutton Valence in Maidstone and Kings in Rochester. The Preparatory Schools at Somerhill and Sevenoaks. Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Public Schools. www.kent- pages.co.uk/education/private. • Leisure Facilities: David Lloyd Tennis & Fitness Club at King’s Hill. Kings Hill Golf and West Malling Golf Course. Poult Wood Golf Club, Tonbridge. Also in Tonbridge are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, the Angel Leisure Centre and a range of sporting clubs to include football, baseball, swimming and sailing. • Motorway Links: Excellent access to the motorway network at Wrotham Heath onto the M20, linking to the M25 for Gatwick and Heathrow Airports. The adjoining road networks offer links to London, Canary Wharf, the Dartford River Crossing, Bluewater Shopping Centre and the South Coast. There is also convenient road access to Channel Tunnel Terminus at both Ashford International Station and Ebbsfleet International Station with high speed rail services into central London and Europe. DIRECTIONS From the A20 turn into Seven Mile Lane and take the first left signposted to Offham (Teston Road). Proceed through the village of Offham and continue along Teston Road. On passing Spadeworks Nurseries on the left hand side take the next left turning Fartherwell Road. Continue along this lane and turn left onto the first driveway (unmarked). This drive is flanked by fields, keep to the right where you will see the private driveway for Home Farm. GENERAL REMARKS Outgoings Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council – 01732 844522. Council Tax band ‘G’ Services Mains gas, water and electricity connected. Gas fired central heating and Aga. Private drainage. Viewing 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. 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 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. AB/613010 Brochure prepared March 2016 This plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey map with the sanction of the Controller of HM Stationery Office. Crown copyright reserved. Licence 100041908. NOT TO SCALE Savills Sevenoaks 74 High Street Sevenoaks Kent TN13 1JR [email protected] 01732 789 700.
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