Sold STC - 5 bed House - Detached

A quintessential Kentish detached Grade II Listed single roundel oast house, enjoying an abundance of period character features including exposed beams, fireplaces and latch doors. This delightful property, dating in parts bac to the 16th century has been a long term family home and sits within generous landscaped gardens with pond and outbuildings.

• Quintessential Grade II Listed Single Roundel Kentish Oast House
• Beautifully Landscaped Gardens including Pond
• Abundance of Period Features & Exposed Beams
• Five Bedrooms, Three Bathrooms/Showers Room & Cloakroom
• Country Kitchen & Utility Room
• Superb Drawing Room with Ornate Fireplace
• Dining Room & Sitting Room with Inglenook
• Principal Bedroom Suite & Roundel Guest Bedroom with En-Suite
• Detached Double Garage
• Storage Stable Block & Open Barn/Garden Store

Accommodation

•This charming property is approached over a gravel driveway and enclosed courtyard area with timber front door leading to the spacious entrance hallway having cloakroom, quarry tiled flooring, brick pillars and two staircases leading to the first floor accommodation.

•Delightful dual aspect drawing room of elegant proportions featuring an ornate open fireplace to one wall. Door leading out onto the brick terrace, wooden flooring and wall light points.

•Separate sitting room, again a bright dual aspect room having a focal brick inglenook fireplace, wall light points, wooden flooring and a door leading out to the rear garden.

•Central dining room accessed from the hallway with a latch door leading through to the kitchen. This room enjoys a vaulted and beamed ceiling with high window and delightful minstrels gallery, window and door leading to the garden.

•Kitchen fitted with a range of cream shaker style wall mounted cabinets and base units of cupboards and drawers with contrasting worktops and tiled splashback. Sink unit with window overlooking the garden and pond, electric hob with fitted extractor over and eye level double oven. An open arched doorway with step leads through to the roundel breakfast room having a lovely outlook over the gardens and pond, wooden flooring and a door leading to the courtyard.

•Adjacent to the kitchen is the utility room offering space for further appliances including an integrated fridge freezer, sink unit and space for a washing machine.

•The first floor accommodation is accessed via two staircases from the hallway with the principal wooden staircase to the right leading to the main bedroom suite with walk in wardrobe/dressing area, en-suite bathroom and mezzanine. Additionally on this side you can access a further double and single bedroom, serviced by a shower room.

•To the left side of the hallway a smaller staircase leads to the roundel guest bedroom with en-suite bathroom and a further double bedroom which has a small access door leading to the minstrels gallery/reading area over the dining room.

•The property is approached over a shared driveway, accessed through five bar gates to the gravel parking, turning and courtyard area and to the front of the detached double garage having two up and over doors to front, power and light.

•Treble attached brick stable block comprising two stables and a garden store.

•Beautiful part walled landscaped gardens surround the property on two sides, mainly laid to level lawns with beech hedging, shrub/flower borders giving a variety of interest and attached open barn style garden/mower store. Brick paved terraces, seating/dining areas and the attractive walled pond create an idyllic backdrop.

•Services & Points of Note: Oil fired central heating. Mains electricity and water. Private drainage.

•Council Tax: G – Sevenoaks District Council.

•EPC: Exempt – Grade II Listed

Situation

Somerden Oast is situated close to the small hamlet of Bough Beech and on the outskirts of Chiddingstone Causeway with provides local amenities including shop and Post Office, church, village hall, the popular Little Brown Jug Public House and Penshurst Railway Station (Tonbridge/Redhill Line). The National Trust village of Chiddingstone is within three miles providing Church of England Primary school, Tulip Tree tea rooms, village shop, St Mary the Virgin Church and historic Chiddingstone Castle, as well The Castle Inn, serving locally brewed beer. The nearby towns of Edenbridge, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells all provide a broader range of amenities, including shops and restaurants. Commuter train services can be accessed at Hildenborough, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge for services to London Charing Cross/Canon Street and Edenbridge for services on the Victoria Line. Conveniently, the A21 and M25 are easily accessible, offering routes to Gatwick and Heathrow Airports, and the Channel Tunnel. Well regarded schools include Chiddingstone, Four Elms and Leigh primary schools. Grammar schools for both boys and girls in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells with annexes in Sevenoaks. Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Public Schools and several Preparatory Schools in Sevenoaks and Tonbridge. Leisure facilities include golf courses at Hever and Nizels with private health and fitness centre and sailing on Bough Beech Reservoir. Within the vicinity there are many historical properties including Chiddingstone & Hever Castles, Chartwell and Knole Park.