Romford Road, Pembury

A rare opportunity to purchase a charming late C16/EarlyC17 detached three double bedroom Grade II listed former farmhouse set within gardens and grounds extending to just under seven and half acres. This unique period property was once two cottages now amalgamated into one family home and offered to the market for the first time in over 100 years by a long established local family. The property comprises the farmhouse, which provides an opportunity for restoration and modernisation, together with multiple outbuildings including a double garage, greenhouses and two workshops/stores. Offered to the market with no forward chain.

THE PROPERTY:
The accommodation on the ground floor comprises: Front door opens to a large entrance hall which has doors to a sitting room, bathroom, a single shower cubicle and to the dining room. The hall also has a door to a rear entrance lobby and stairs to one of the first floor landings. The sitting room enjoys a double aspect with a central inglenook fireplace with a woodburner inset. The dining room has a front aspect and a central fireplace with an oil fired stove inset. There are also doors to the kitchen and a small inner hallway. The kitchen has a basic range of wall, base and drawer units with a one and half bowl sink set into the worktop. There is also an integrated four ring electric hob and a chest height oven. From the small inner hall are doors to a cloakroom with outside access, a study with a front aspect and an open doorway to a utility room. The utility room has a side door to the outside and a double aspect with a second staircase to the first floor. On the first floor are two large double bedrooms and a small double bedroom with a bathroom and separate WC.

Historic notes can be found via the Historic England website: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074934.

GARDENS & GROUNDS:
The house is located within its own large garden plot. There are a number of former glass houses and basic timber stores and off the farmhouse drive is a large double garage. The glass houses and timber stores are in need of restoration. There is also a garden summer house enjoying views over the well-established rear garden and beyond. The farmland lies to the north and west of the farmhouse with access off the residential drive, but also there is a separate road frontage and a right of way off Romford Road to the north into a large paddock marked blue on the attached plan. The total area of the site extends to some 7.42 acres and the land mainly lays in a valley divided by a stream, which runs in a north to south direction. The land is variously cropped to cobnut platts, mainly sweet chestnut, coppiced for making hop poles and chestnut pale fencing, an area of woodland, with a pasture paddock to the north of Romford Cottages, closest to the road. The land in the valley has steep sloping banks that lay either side of the stream.

LOCATION:
Romford Farm is conveniently situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the edge of the village of Pembury with its local shopping facilities. A wider range of shopping and leisure facilities can be found at Paddock Wood, Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge Town Centres, together with main line stations serving London and Ashford international. There are a good number of well-regarded schools in the local area including nearby Kent College for Girls, Holmewood House at Langton Green, The Schools at Somerhill and Hilden Grange in Tonbridge and well as Sevenoaks and Tonbridge Independent Schools. There are also Grammar Schools for boys and girls in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells including Judd and Skinners. The A21 at Pembury provides access to the M25 and thence motorway network, Gatwick, Stansted and Heathrow airports, Channel Tunnel Terminus and South Coast as well as Ebbsfleet International and Bluewater. Leisure facilities include golf at Tunbridge Wells and Lamberhurst. Riding and walking in the local countryside. Sailing and fishing at Bewl Water and the coast.

AGENTS NOTE: The property will be sold subject to terms and conditions. Further details can be discussed before arranging viewings that will be strictly by appointment only via the Paddock Wood Residential Sales Team.
1) The boundaries of the property are shown edged red.
2) The farm benefits from a right of way over the access way shown coloured blue on the plan to the paddock.
3) Japanese Knotweed has been identified on the property in three locations at a distance from the farmhouse. The vendors will employ a specialist contractor to treat and create an eradication plan for the knotweed. Further details are on request.

GENERAL:
Tenure: Freehold.
Services: Oil fired stove in dining room serving hot water, mains electricity, water supply and drainage services connected but not tested.
Local authority: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Council tax: Band G.
EPC: N/A GII Listed.

VIEWING: Strictly by appointment with the agents. Paddock Wood Office: 01892 832325.