5 bedroom detached house for sale

Attractive Grade II listed five bedroom family home with outdoor pool, tennis court and gardens totalling 2.9 acres.

Description

Occupying a lovely country lane position, Higham Farm is a pretty Grade II listed family home which sits amidst beautiful gardens and grounds of 2.9 acres with outdoor swimming pool, tennis court, detached double garage with workshop and several outbuildings.

This charming period property, which enjoys countryside views and features high ceilings to the majority of rooms with exposed timbers and beams comprises; a hall, two well proportioned reception rooms both with wood burning stoves, including a dual aspect sitting room with door to the gardens and a formal dining room with wood flooring. There is also a part vaulted study/snug off the sitting room. The kitchen/breakfast room has underfloor heating and is fitted with a range of cupboards, central island and walk in pantry with slate shelving. Appliances including two Neff electric ovens, an induction hob with extractor, integral dishwasher and wine fridge. Completing the ground floor is a boot room, a utility room with further cupboards and space for white goods and a cloakroom.

On the first floor there are four bedrooms which are served by a family bathroom and an en suite shower room to the principal bedroom. This room enjoys a double aspect and together with a number of the other bedrooms benefits from built in cupboards. A further staircase leads up to the attic floor where there is a fifth bedroom and a flexible attic room currently used as a sewing room. The property benefits from a very good range of storage including several lofts.

Higham Farm is approached via a gravel drive where there is off road parking for a number of cars. Access can be gained to the double garage with an adjacent workshop and steps up to a useful space above.

The attractive gardens surround the house and feature expansive lawns, herbaceous borders, specimen trees including an Indian bean tree and various fruit trees; apple, damson and fig. There is a tennis court and an outdoor swimming pool. The gardens continue to an area of open paddock and there are also a number of garden stores.

Location

Higham Farm is situated just under a mile from the small village of Kenardington with its historic church and 2.5 miles from Warehorne with its church and public house, on the edge of Romney Marsh. Appledore is about 2.5 miles with village shop, amenities and station. Hamstreet is about 3 miles away where there are a good range of local facilities including a convenience store with post office, a church, tennis courts, bowling green, football club, doctors surgery, dentist, public house and a railway station. The village of Woodchurch (also 3 miles) has a post office, butchers, village store, doctor's surgery and two public houses. More comprehensive amenities can be found in Tenterden (7.4 miles), Ashford (8.8 miles) and Canterbury (24 miles). Ashford Designer Outlet is located at J9 off the M20.

The property is located 1.2 miles to the east Gusbourne Estate Vineyard and near to the Royal Military canal and there are lots of lovely walks and footpaths in the area.

Ashford International station (8.8 miles) has high speed services to London Stratford from 31 minutes and London St Pancras from 37 minutes. Trains to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street can also be found at Ashford. A branch line from Hamstreet station connects to Ashford station in under 10 minutes.

There are a good selection of schools in both the state and private sectors at primary and secondary levels. These include Hamstreet, Woodchurch and Aldington Primary schools, and Highworth and Norton Knatchbull grammar schools in Ashford, Homewood in Tenterden, Ashford School, Kings in Canterbury, Sutton Valence and Benenden at secondary level.

The M20 can be accessed via junctions 8 or 9 providing links to Gatwick and Heathrow airports, the channel tunnel, Dover and other motorway networks.

*All mileages and distances are approximate

Square Footage: 2,741 sq ft


Acreage: 2.89 Acres

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Additional Info

Services: Oil fired central heating, electric underfloor heating, mains water and electric. Private drainage.

Agent's Note: There is access for electrical company to service power cables and transformer.