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4 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Highly regarded semi-rural location in the heart of the Kent countryside
- Detached family home with planning permission to extend
- Four bedrooms and shower room
- Sitting/dining room, family room, kitchen
- Generous gardens, driveway parking and garaging
- Well placed for road and rail links, choice of schools and local amenities
- Within convenient reach of Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks
- Video Tour Available on Request
- EPC Rating = D
Description
Dating back to the 1950s with later additions, Oaklands is a detached family home offering so much potential, enjoying a hidden setting on the edge of the highly regarded village of Matfield.
Currently the ground floor comprises a reception hall leading to the dual aspect open-plan dining room and sitting room with sliding glazed doors opening onto and providing the view over the gardens beyond, with steps down to the lawns. There is also a further good-sized family/tv room. The kitchen overlooks the garden to the rear and provides good storage and preparation space. A WC completes the ground floor.
On the first floor the property is currently arranged with four bedrooms (bedroom one and bedroom 2 are interconnected). There is a separate WC and a shower room.
Outside: Oaklands sits within its established, generous and well screened gardens that overlook the neighbouring countryside. The wide expanses of lawns are interspersed with different seating areas and wonderful planting including productive fruit trees and hedgerows, ideal for those looking to cultivate and create the good life!
The house benefits from parking for several cars, garaging, and a useful outdoor storeroom that adjoins the house.
Planning permission at Oaklands: The property is sold with the notable benefit of planning permission to considerably extend the house, creating a sizeable home of approximately 2230 sq ft, improving the parking arrangement and detached garaging with double car port and adjoining store. A Stephen Langer Architects design, the full details are available on the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council website: 24/01137/FULL | Two-storey infill side extensions, single-storey rear extension, alterations to fenestration on all elevations, replacement garage. Granted June 2024.
Location
Sat within the High Weald National Landscape (previously known as the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), Oaklands enjoys a tucked away position on the edge of the charming village of Matfield known for its traditional village green and duck pond, home to the annual village fête and cricket team. Matfield has a butcher, village hall, and public houses including Gastro Pub "The Poet". The nearby village of Brenchley offers a post office, doctors' surgery and dispensary, along with a fine church, primary school, The Little Bull Café & Bar and Grey’s Cafe. The two villages share a Tennis Club and there are both cricket and football teams in addition to further local societies and clubs.
Oaklands is also very well placed for immediate access to the surrounding countryside, and within convenient reach of local attractions such as Bewl Water, the largest reservoir in the south east. The reservoir provides many leisure activities including horse riding, walking and cycling trails, a sailing and canoeing club and fishing, Scotney Castle and Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest.
For more comprehensive shopping, Paddock Wood (approximatley 3.4 miles) offers a good range of shopping facilities including a Waitrose supermarket, doctors’ surgery, bank, Costa Coffee, butcher, Greggs, Barsley's Department Store, Putlands Sports and Leisure Centre and primary school.
There are many highly regarded schools in the area, both state and private, including Brenchley and Horsmonden village primary schools, the Grammar Schools in Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Maidstone, Bethany school in Goudhurst, St Ronans and Marlbrough House in Hawkhurst, the Schools at Somerhill, Holmewood House, Kent College for girls, Tonbridge School for Boys, Mayfield School for Girls and co-education at Sevenoaks School.
Paddock Wood station has mainline services to London Charing Cross via London Bridge and Waterloo East (and Cannon Street), with services from about 53 minutes.
The A21 links directly to the M25 London orbital motorway to the north and thereby a national motorway network, Gatwick and Heathrow airports, together with offering easy access to the South Coast, including the popular seaside town of Hastings.
Square Footage: 1,536 sq ft
Acreage: 0.72 Acres
Directions
Postcode - TN12 7ET. From the Maidstone Road B2160, turn into Bramble Reed Lane (opposite St Luke's Church). Travel along the lane for about 0.3 miles, turning left onto a shared private driveway (signposted for Oaklands at the top of the lane) travel gently down hill where Oaklands will be found on the right hand side.
Additional Info
Local Authority: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council.
Services: Mains Electricity, Water & Drainage. Oil-fired central heating.
Please note that a public footpath runs along the private, shared drive and then parallel with the boundary of the property, providing immediate, off road access, to the glorious countryside walks.
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