5 bedroom house

ROOMS Entrance hall, Drawing room, Dining room, Study, Kitchen/breakfast room, Utility, Cloakroom, Cellar, First floor landing, Master bedroom with en-suite bathroom and dressing room, 3 further bedrooms, Family bathroom, Second floor landing,Two further attic rooms, Oil heating, Oak framed open cart barn with enclosed garage and home office over, Orelstone oak barn/gym, Heated swimming pool, Formal gardens include a kitchen garden, orchard and ornamental pond, Adjoining paddock and woodland,The whole amounting to approx. 13 acres (further 12.5 acres available upon request).
 

LOCATION Occupying a rural location off a minor country lane within the village of Beckley which has a church, infant/primary school, public house, bowls and cricket clubs, recreation ground with new multi use games area for tennis, netball, basketball etc and a thriving village hall hosting a pre-school, monthly farmers market and variety of social and leisure activities including amateur dramatics, yoga, pilates etc. The village of Northiam (2 miles) offers further leisure facilities, a library and Great Dixter house and gardens. There is also a range of everyday shopping facilities as well as a doctor's surgery, NHS Dentist, vets, private fitness gym, primary school and large sports hall. More comprehensive facilities are available in Tenterden (7.5miles) with Waitrose & Tesco supermarkets. Rye, renowned for its medieval fortifications and fine period architecture, is 8 miles. Main-line rail services into London Charing Cross and Cannon Street can be found at Staplehurst (15 miles) and Robertsbridge (8 miles) taking approximately one hour, 5minutes and 1hr, 20 minutes respectively. Ashford International (20 miles) provides Eurostar services to the Continent and a high speed service to London St Pancras in 37 minutes. There are excellent schools in the area in both the private and state sectors at all levels. 

DESCRIPTION Gate House forms a Grade II Listed 17th Century farmhouse which has been extensively renovated in recent years together with useful outbuildings which have also been restored and modernised and include a home office and gym. 

GROUND FLOOR Front door into the entrance hall which leads off to the drawing room and dining room both with open inglenook fireplaces. Off the inner hallway is a study which has a wood burning stove. The high quality and well appointed open plan kitchen/breakfast room was designed and fitted by Martin Moore Kitchens of Tunbridge Wells and includes Gaggenau appliances, central island and limestone flags. Steps lead down to a cellar. There is a cloakroom and the utility room has a built in units and cupboard housing Grant oil fired boiler.  

FIRST FLOOR On the first floor the double aspect main bedroom has a wood burning stove. Both the bedroom and dressing room are fitted with Martin Moore wardrobes, and there is an en suite bathroom with rolltop bath, separate shower and w.c. There are three further bedrooms and family bathroom.  

SECOND FLOOR Second floor has two interconnecting part vaulted rooms, one used as a cinema room with adjoining bedroom. 

OUTSIDE A gravel driveway accessed via electric wooden double gates leading to an area of parking and a double bay open cart barn with adjoining enclosed garage and home office over. In addition, there is an Orlestone oak barn currently used as a gym.
The rear brick terrace opens onto the main lawn where there is a heated swimming pool and gazebo with hot tub. An orchard leads down to a fruit cage having an Alitex Victorian style greenhouse with cutting garden. There is a second greenhouse and a useful stone gardener's store.
An ornamental pond is naturally fed by a water tower on the property which also supplies water, via taps, to the garden. Throughout the garden there are sweeping areas of lawn interspersed with well stocked planting and trees all bounded by mature hedging. A large paddock bounded by woodland adjoins the garden and has two further access points off the lane. The whole extends to approximately 13 acres (tbv).

 

FURTHER LAND AVAILABLE Further land available upon request - on the opposite side of the lane there are two further adjoining fields extending to approx. 12.5 acres - guide price £150,000. Note: there is a public footpath over part of the field.

Marketed by: Phillips & Stubbs, Rye