Overbridge Farm

Overbridge Farm is a traditional former Wealden farmhouse and retains many original features.

The Grade II Listed farmhouse has 17th Century origins and was re-built and extended in the 19th Century presenting mixed elevations of part brick and white weatherboard set with a mixture of oak framed, single and sealed unit double glazed casement, dormer and roof line windows beneath a pitched and tiled roof.

The farmhouse has been updated but retains many original period features including exposed
beams and timbers, wide oak floors, oak joinery and fireplaces.

The sitting room has a fine inglenook fireplace housing a wood burning stove. A separate dining room with feature fireplace houses a wood burning stove. The kitchen/breakfast has granite worktops and a fireplace housing an electric twin oven Aga (on Economy 7) and a clay tiled floor.

On the first floor are four bedrooms, the master with wide oak floorboards, brick fireplace,
built-in wardrobe and a walk in storage cupboard. The bathroom is fitted with a white suite incorporating a close coupled wc, raised panelled enamelled bath, pedestal wash hand basin and tiled shower with glazed door. From bedroom three there is an interconnecting ‘space saver’ wooden steps to two useful attic storage rooms, set beneath the eaves, with roofline and dormer windows.

Farmland & Buildings

Accessed off the side driveway to the east of the house the yard has three principal buildings.

The Hay Barn (193 sq m) A 4 bay concrete portal frame building, with part block elevations on 3 sides, extended with a mono pitched former parlour building its north elevation, which benefits from Prior notification for the change of use of the existing agricultural building to a residential dwelling with associated operational development
(Maidstone Borough Council Planning Reference 21/505937/PNQCLA).

The proposed accommodation of 193.40 sq m/ 2088 sq ft incorporates an open plan kitchen, dining room and sitting room, study, three bedrooms with individual ensuite facilities and a utility room and separate WC. The barn overlooks its own farmland to the south.

Located to the north of the farmhouse is a 4 bay Steel Framed Barn (167 sq m) ¾ clad with corrugated iron. Three of the four bays on the front of the building are open and the building is used for farm storage but could (subject to planning permission) be adapted for equine use.

Prospective purchasers are advised that they must make their own enquiries to the Maidstone Borough Council

Gardens and Grounds

A white painted five bar gate opens onto the drive to parking. Off the drive there is a pedestrian pathway with a wrought iron gate
leading to the front door with the formal gardens on two sides of the house with an attractive pond.

Located in the back garden is a former dairy (10.6m x 5.92m and 3.40m x 5.66m) of brick construction, this provides useful storage for the farmhouse and has been granted prior planning approval for a conversion.

The farmland which extends to 20.79 acres, is mainly permanent pasture located in 2 parcels either side of the farmhouse . To the front of the farmhouse, within its view, is a ring-fenced block of about 6 acres of level pasture fields with attractive ponds.

Overbridge Farm is located at the end of an adopted ‘no through’ road, shared with one neighbouring converted barn, mid-way between the villages of Staplehurst and Marden in the Weald of Kent. Staplehurst has good everyday amenities including a Sainsburys Supermarket, Mainline Railway Station with fast and frequent
services to Central London in about 60 minutes. The County Town of Maidstone is some 8 miles distant with a comprehensive range of amenities including Fremlins Walk Shopping Centre.

There are excellent educational choices in the area in both the state and private sector and the property is located in the catchment area of the three grammar schools - Cranbrook and the Maidstone Grammar Schools.

Marketed by: Strutt & Parker, Sevenoaks