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Frogs Hall Hothfield Common Ashford, TN26 1HD A carefully renovated detached period cottage with 3 bay oak framed wagon barn set in 0.75 acre grounds situated on the Hothfield Common Nature Reserve and backing onto woodland. Ashford International Station (London St Pancras 37 mins) 3 miles. Offers in Excess of £650,000

Accommodation Entrance Hall • Boot Room • Beamed Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Sitting Room with Inglenook fireplace and wood burning stove • Music Room with Inglenook fireplace and wood burning stove • 4 Bedrooms (1 en- suite) • Bath/Shower Room • Lime rendered walls New wiring and plumbing • Oil fired central heating via heat storage system • Planning permission for extension Gardens Front parking forecourt • 3 Bay wagon barn garage Driveway • Landscaped terracing • Lawns • Ragstone walling • Rainwater harvesting • Stable block • Brick shed Communications Ashford Int Station (London St Pancras 37 minutes) - 3 miles Situation enjoys an en-suite shower room. The other bedrooms share a contemporary style bath/ Frogs Hall is situated on Hothfield Common, a shower room. nature reserve over 58 hectares and contains Kent’s last four valley bogs and one of its few Gardens remaining fragments of open heath with patches of acid grassland. Highland Cattle and ponies Frogs Hall is surrounded by its own gardens roam the reserve with sheep being introduced and the renovation has included a considerable shortly. This part of Hothfield Common is amount of landscaping including rainwater accessed from a private unmade track and is management and harvesting. At the entrance surrounded by woodland with many nearby to the property is an oak framed 3 bay wagon picturesque walks and rides. barn with full height central section for higher vehicles and a lockable bay to one end. There The village of Hothfield has few facilities other is adjacent off-road parking and steps leading than a convenience store/Post Office and a down to the cottage courtyard. A gently delightful parish church but is nestled between sloping driveway is arranged to one side. The , a picturesque village offering a range gardens meander around both sides of the of village stores and Ashford where a wide cottage to form the rear garden where there range of facilities are available including all of is a log barbecue area, stable block and brick the major supermarkets, a modern shopping sheds. In addition to a rainwater harvesting centre and leisure amenities. Ashford provides facility, well and soak away there are also excellent travel links including the International exterior power sockets and lighting points as Station with services to London St Pancras in well as an exterior water supply. just 37 minutes and Eurostar services to the Continent. There are two junctions to the M20 Services motorway (9 & 10) providing a link with the Port of Dover and the M25 motorway network. Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. The town offers a choice of schools both in Oil fired central heating (via heat storage the state and independent sectors including system that can be supplemented, run in grammar schools for boys and girls. conjunction with or replaced by the wood burning stove through one touch control Frogs Hall panel). Secondary double glazing. Externally sited boiler. An un-Listed 18th Century brick and ragstone detached cottage which has recently undergone Directions a detailed renovation including new wiring and plumbing systems, lime rendered internal From the , leave at Junction walls, re-modelled bathrooms and a delightful 9 and follow signs towards Ashford in the bespoke, handmade kitchen with reclaimed direction of the upper roundabout. At the terracotta tile floor and Belfast sink. T here are roundabout adjacent to John Lewis follow signs also granite work surfaces, larder cupboard, towards Lenham/A20. Proceed out of the basket shelves, integrated dishwasher and fridge, town on this road continuing over the next pan drawers and a range style induction cooker. roundabout and on towards Hothfield. Ignore The sitting room features an Inglenook fireplace the turning signposted to Hothfield and turn with wood burning stove (heating and hot left just past the lay-by and then take the first Important Notice We have not tested any services, appliances, All descriptions, dimensions, areas and necessary water supplement), a beamed ceiling and French right hand track into Hothfield Common. T he equipment or facilities, and nothing in these permissions for use and occupation and other property will be found over on the left hand These particulars have been prepared in all good particulars should be deemed to be a statement details are given in good faith but any intending windows opening to the gardens. The adjacent faith to give a fair overall view of the property that they are in good working order or that purchaser must satisfy themselves by inspection or music room also has a pretty Inglenook side. and must not be relied upon as statements or the property is in good structural condition or further detailed request. fireplace and wood burning stove. representations of fact. Purchasers must satisfy otherwise. The information in these particulars is given Viewing themselves by inspection or otherwise regarding It should not be assumed that any contents/ without responsibility on the part of the agents On the first floor there are four bedrooms the items mentioned below and as to the content furnishings/furniture etc. photographed are or their clients. These particulars do not form although one of the bedrooms is used as a Strictly by appointment only (Ref: C1169) of these particulars. included in the sale, nor that the property remains any part of an offer or a contract and neither the If any points are particularly relevant to your as displayed in the photograph(s). No assumption agents nor their employees have any authority to dressing room to the master suite which also interest in the property please ask for further should be made with regards to parts of the make or give any representations or warranties information. property that have not been photographed. whatsoever in relation to this property. Country Houses distinctive country property

Hothfield a beautiful artificial lake and waterfall. Fishing is allowed by Set in wooded, agricultural special permission. countryside Hothfield is a Hothfield Common consists of busy and friendly village with a about 143 acres of woodland Gardening Club, Angling Club, with footpaths and a nature trail the Merry and Bright Club and and is a local nature reserve and Cubs where girls are accepted! Site of Special Scientific Interest. The Post Office doubles up as Villagers can often be found the village shop selling everything walking the Common in peace from washing powder to birthday and quiet at weekends and in the cards. There is a recreation evenings. ground with swings and climbing bars etc. The lovely old church, largely rebuilt in 1624, is set high to the south and stands in the grounds of Hothfield Place which has

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