BADSELL PARK FARMHOUSE Matfield • Tonbridge • Kent BADSELL PARK FARMHOUSE Crittenden Road • Matfield • Tonbridge • Kent • TN12 7EW A DELIGHTFUL GRADE II LISTED COUNTRY HOME, WELL PLACED FOR SCHOOLS AND STATIONS AND SET WITHIN ATTRACTIVE GROUNDS OF ABOUT 7.9 ACRES Matfield village 1.3 miles, Paddock Wood MLS 3.4 miles, Tonbridge 5.5 miles, Tunbridge Wells 6.0 miles, City of London 41 miles, Ashford International Station 38 miles, Gatwick Airport 39 miles (all mileages are approximate) Ground floor: reception hall, drawing room, sitting room, study, open plan kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, conservatory, cloakroom First floor: master bedroom with en suite shower room, 3 further bedrooms, dressing room, family bathroom, cloakroom Second floor: 2 double bedrooms, sitting room Outside: detached oak-framed open garage and store room with studio above, outbuildings garden, fields and woodland, pond, stream, hedged maze about 7.90 acres in total Savills Tunbridge Wells 53 High Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1XU [email protected] 01892 507000 savills.co.uk DESCRIPTION A handsome period country home with origins dating back to the 17th Century, set within grounds of just under eight acres within a cluster of properties sharing a long private driveway. Badsell Park Farmhouse is reputed to have originally been the Earl of Westmoreland’s hunting lodge and features an inscription dated 1712 above the fireplace in the oldest part of the house. Subsequent 19th and 20th century extensions have created light and spacious accommodation arranged over three floors, with the majority of rooms enjoying an attractive outlook over the grounds. The generously-proportioned ground floor living space is ideal for entertaining and family life and comprises a striking entrance hall leading through to a bay-fronted sitting room, a formal drawing room, a study and a large country-style open plan kitchen/ breakfast room, complete with an Aga. The kitchen opens directly out to the garden on the south side for enjoyment of the lovely setting and a pretty conservatory, festooned by a mature grapevine to the roof, creates a delightful space with the garden lying to two sides. Five well-proportioned and characterful good-sized and beautifully-presented bedrooms, with good ceiling heights and an attractive outlook, are arranged over the first and second floors, together with a dressing room, two bath/shower rooms, a cloakroom and a sitting room. SITUATION Badsell Park Farmhouse enjoys an attractive semi-rural position Directions: From the north travel south on the A21, passing the exits within a cluster of five other properties with a long shared driveway for Tonbridge. At the end of the single carriageway section, go straight approach from Crittenden Road. The popular village of Matfield is over the first roundabout. At the second roundabout (Kippings about 1.3 miles from the property with its traditional village green and Cross) take the first exit (left) to Matfield village. Continue through public houses. Paddock Wood (3.8 miles), Tonbridge (5.5 miles) and the village, turning left at The Poet Public House into Chestnut Lane. Tunbridge Wells (6 miles) all offer a more comprehensive range of Continue straight on into Crittenden Road and down to the bottom shopping and leisure facilities. of the hill where the driveway to Badsell Park Farm will be found on the left-hand side. Outside: State and private schools: Primary schools in Brenchley and Badsell Park Farmhouse is set within attractive grounds of about Horsmonden, grammar schools in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and If approaching Crittenden Road from the Maidstone Road (A228) 7.90 acres in total, with a long driveway forming an attractive Cranbrook, Maskalls Academy in Paddock Wood, Tonbridge and the driveway will be found on the right-hand side, after about 0.2 of approach, flanked by a lawn and passing an oak-framed timber Sevenoaks public schools, Kent College, Pembury. Preparatory a mile. garage with a large studio room above. schools at Somerhill and Hilden Grange (Tonbridge), Marlborough House and St Ronan’s (Hawkhurst) and Dulwich Prep (Cranbrook). Services: Mains electricity and water, shared private drainage. A sheltered paved terrace lies to the rear, alongside Tudeley Brook which runs through the grounds, and offers a lovely outlook over Mainline rail: Paddock Wood (3.4 miles) with fast and frequent Outgoings: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council: 01892 526121. Tax the fields towards a belt of woodland beyond the top boundary. commuter services to London Charing Cross (via London Bridge Band G. and Waterloo East) and Cannon Street. Tonbridge station is a good The majority of the land lies on the northern approach-side of alternative, just 5.5 miles, via Tudeley. VIEWING the house, with a block of mixed woodland, meadowland, a Strictly by appointment with Savills on 01892 507000. If there is large pond and a high-hedged maze providing a quirky and a Communications: The M25 can be accessed via the A21 (3.7 any point which is of particular importance to you, we invite you to fascinating focal point. miles), linking to other motorway networks, Gatwick and Heathrow discuss this with us, especially before you travel to view the property. Airports and the Channel Tunnel/ports. 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