4 bedroom house

A deceptively spacious and most attractive Grade II listed former farmhouse offering excellent accommodation and set in beautiful gardens with potential for annexe/home office

DESCRIPTION
The Farmhouse, Little Benover is a beautiful Grade II listed former farmhouse with most attractive timber framing with plaster panels and jettied first floor all under a clay tiled roof. The current house is believed to date from the late 16th Century but is considered to have earlier Tudor origins.
Internally the house has good ceiling heights throughout and benefits from a wealth of classic period features including many exposed timbers and wonderful inglenook fireplaces, a vaulted ceiling to the master Bedroom and two well proportioned and good sized reception rooms.
Outside the well stocked garden is well secluded and an attractive feature providing a delightful setting. There is also a substantial Workshop/Garage Block and detached brick and tile building now requiring some updating previously used as an annexe which could be used as a Home Office.

ACCOMMODATION
Brick fan steps lead up to a studded entrance door that opens to spacious Entrance Hall with flagstone flooring, exposed timbers. Stairs to first floor.
Double aspect Sitting Room with large inglenook fireplace including substantial bressummer. Wood burning stove on a raised brick hearth. Ceiling timbers.
Double aspect Dining Room with exposed timbers. Large inglenook fireplace with bressummer, niches and raised brick hearth.
Double aspect Kitchen with good work surface area over a range of cupboards and drawers. Fitted fridge, oven, inset 4 plate hob, plumbing and space for dishwasher. 2 Oven Aga to fireplace with attractive stained glass window to one side. Ceiling timbers.
Double aspect Breakfast Room with flagstone flooring, exposed timbers, glazed double doors to garden.
Rear Hall with quarry tiled floor, external door. Cloakroom.
Utility Room with Potterton oil fired boiler, plumbing and spaces for washing machine and tumble dryer.
First Floor approached by single flight of stairs to Landing with built in cupboard.
Master Bedroom Suite approached through Dressing Area with wardrobes to one side to Bedroom with wonderful vaulted ceiling and attractive outlook over the garden. En Suite Shower Room.
3 Double Bedrooms. Family Bathroom.

OUTSIDE
A five bar gate opens to a gravelled driveway to the front of the house providing a good sized parking and turning area and access to Substantial Garage/Workshop with folding/sliding doors.
Front Garden has lawned areas and well stocked with variety of shrubs and plants.
To both sides of the house gates give access to the attractive and well secluded Rear Garden which is mainly laid to lawn interspesed with a variety of trees and shrubs.
To one side of the house a gravelled pathway leads to brick and tile Outbuilding about 22'x11'11 (6.71mx3.65m), now requiring some refurbishment, previously used as an annexe and now potential as a home office. Useful Timber Building about 11'11x10'10 (3.64mx3.33m). Greenhouse.
To the rear of the house is a brick paved terrace with low brick walling.

In all about 0.7 Acre

SITUATION
The Farmhouse is set in the hamlet of Benover which is situated between Collier Street and Yalding. The 17th century Woolpack Inn offering home cooked food and beer garden is within walking distance. Yhe charming and historic village of Yalding offers good day-to-day facilities with its village store, pubs, post office, doctors’ surgery and primary school.
Paddock Wood offers a good range of shopping facilities including Waitrose supermarket, as well as the main line station serving London Charing Cross/Cannon Street. The towns of Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Maidstone all offer a wide range of shopping and leisure facilities.
There are a good number of well-regarded schools in the area including primary schools in Yalding, Laddingford and Collier Street. There are grammar schools for boys and girls in Maidstone, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells. Mascalls Academy at Paddock Wood. Private schools include Sutton Valence, Tonbridge School for Boys, Kent College for girls in Pembury, as well as the Schools at Somerhill, Hilden Grange and Hilden Oaks in Tonbridge.
Leisure facilities include direct access to the countryside. Yalding is a popular centre for water sports. There are leisure centres in Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells, the David Lloyd Health Club in Kings Hill. Golf at Kings Hill, West Malling, Poult Wood in Tonbridge and Weald of Kent at Headcorn.

DIRECTIONS
Leave the A21 at Pembury and join the A228. Continue for about 6.5 miles, passing The Hop Farm on the left. At the third roundabout take the third exit back onto the A228. After a short distance turn left onto Beltring Road. At the end of the road take a slight left turn onto Lees Road and continue into Yalding village. Continue through the village on the B2162 Benover Road south towards Collier Street and Marden. Continue for about a mile and The Farmhouse will be found on the right hand side on the corner with Emmett Hill Lane.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
All Mains Services. Gas fired Central Heating


The Farmhouse is set in the hamlet of Benover which is situated between Collier Street and Yalding. The 17th century Woolpack Inn offering home cooked food and beer garden is within walking distance. The charming and historic village of Yalding offers good day-to-day facilities with its village store, pubs, post office, doctors’ surgery and primary school.
Paddock Wood offers a good range of shopping facilities including Waitrose supermarket, as well as the main line station serving London Charing Cross/Cannon Street. The towns of Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Maidstone all offer a wide range of shopping and leisure facilities.
There are a good number of well-regarded schools in the area including primary schools in Yalding, Laddingford and Collier Street. There are grammar schools for boys and girls in Maidstone, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells. Mascalls Academy at Paddock Wood. Private schools include Sutton Valence, Tonbridge School for Boys, Kent College for girls in Pembury, as well as the Schools at Somerhill, Hilden Grange and Hilden Oaks in Tonbridge.
Leisure facilities include direct access to the countryside. Yalding is a popular centre for water sports. There are leisure centres in Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells, the David Lloyd Health Club in Kings Hill. Golf at Kings Hill, West Malling, Poult Wood in Tonbridge and Weald of Kent at Headcorn.

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