5 bedroom detached house

Ploggs Hall is a Grade II listed family house dating in part back to the 1700s, offering well-balanced and impressive accommodation with many period features such as exposed beams, wooden floors, and an inglenook fireplace.

The double-aspect drawing room with sumptuous wallpaper design offers a fabulous inglenook fireplace set against exposed brickwork with bressummer beam above; double doors lead out to the delightful garden. To the rear of the property is the spacious family room with high ceilings and large windows, providing a wonderful space for daily life and entertaining.

The impressive open-plan kitchen/diner is considered the heart of the house with exposed brickwork and beams, bespoke Bulthaup cabinets, and fully integrated Gaggenau and Neff appliances with Corian polished steel work surfaces; French double doors lead out to the terrace garden with a large pergola with wisteria providing the perfect backdrop for al fresco dining and entertaining. To note, there is a convenient utility room with a cloakroom located on the right-hand side of the entrance.

On the first floor there are five generously proportioned bedrooms, the large principal suite features a stylish en suite with roll-top bath and shower and a spectacular walk-in dressing room. There is also an attractive large family bathroom with copper slipper bath, double basin vanity unit, and separate shower.

The property is approached via timber electric gates leading to a large gravelled driveway with parking for multiple cars. The property features a delightful wildlife haven in the form of a pond with a small decked area, a large terrace area (accessible from the kitchen/diner), a swimming pool with its own terrace, a fantastic pergola, and a detached former stable currently used as an office and a gym, and a single roundel Oast with various uses but has great scope for more. In all the property extends to about 1.28 acres.

The detached timber barn has lapsed planning for conversion to a two bedroom ancillary annexe (REF: 08/01371/FUL).

The property is situated in a convenient position in the hamlet of Whetsted, close to the village of Five Oak Green which is widely regarded as the centre of hop growing in Kent.

Nearby Paddock Wood has a range of shops, including Waitrose, as well as a mainline station. Rail services are also available at Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells with a regular service to London (London Bridge from 40 minutes via Tonbridge mainline station). A more extensive range of shopping, commercial and leisure amenities are available at the larger towns of Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone.

The property is conveniently positioned for both the A21 at Tonbridge and for the M20 and M26 motorways at Wrotham providing links to the national motorway network. There is an excellent choice of schooling in the area, in both the state and private sectors, including The Schools at Somerhill in Tonbridge, Sevenoaks School and The Valance School in Sevenoaks, The Judd School and Tonbridge Grammar School in Tonbridge with a wide variety of grammar and public schools at Tunbridge Wells.

Leisure facilities include golf at a number of courses in the vicinity; riding and walking in the surrounding countryside; sailing and water sports at Haysden Country Park, Bewl Water and on the south coast.