Maidstone Kent ME18 Symonds Lane, Laddingford
- Offers Over
- £1,500,000
- 6
- 4
- 3
- Freehold
- G Council Band
Features at a glance
- Character features
- Further land available under seperate negotiation (Lot 2 Guide Price £75,000)
- Immaculately presented accommodation
- Six good sized bedrooms
- Beautiful gardens and grounds
- Garage with studio above
- Outbuildings
A Grade II Listed elegant family home with fine period features
Mill Place Farmhouse is an elegant Grade II listed house of mixed ages, believed to date originally from the 16th Century.
The house itself has over 4,000 sq ft of internal space and provides flexible, well-proportioned and immaculately presented accommodation arranged over three floors.
The wonderful features include attractive fireplaces, sash and casement windows, exposed wall and ceiling timbers and some wooden flooring. The principal reception rooms provide ideal areas of both formal and family entertaining and comprise of a sitting room featuring an open fireplace with ornate overmantel and a dining room with an impressive brick fireplace with stove. The family room has wall panelling to dado height and a wood burning Morso stove.
The first floor features the principal bedroom with a Jack and Jill bathroom, two further bedrooms and an additional shower room. To the rear is a further bedroom with en suite shower room and an exposed brick fireplace.
The properties two remaining bedrooms are located on the vaulted second floor, with one enjoying its own ensuite shower room.
The kitchen is well served with a range of wall and base units, wooden worktops a Belfast sink, modern integrated appliances, a Rangemaster stove and has space for a table and access to the rear aspect.
Services: Mains water, electricity, gas and drainage
This property has 0.73 acres of land.
Outside
Having plenty of kerb appear, the property is approached through twin stone pillars and double electric gates over a gravelled driveway with a large lawned turning circle giving access to a detached triple garage. The garage has internal stairs rising to a large first floor studio/home office with electricity, water and broadband.
The delightful formal garden, much of which is laid to lawn, is bordered with herbaceous shrubs and evergreen hedging. The are two green houses, a garden shed and a vegetable plot. The garden also features a large well stocked pond, al fresco dining areas, several seating areas plus a gardeners’ cloakroom.
The remaining grounds of about 3.8 acres feature two 35ft barns together with a well-stocked orchard with established fruit trees including apple, plum, pears and cherry and a nuttery (available as a separate lot).
Situation
The nearby village of Laddingford provides a primary school, recreational and sporting faciilities and a village pub. Just a mile away the historic village of Yalding has a thriving community, several churches, 2 village stores, a Post Office, GP Surgery, primary school, village cafe and several pubs.
Slightly further a field Paddock Wood (4.4 miles), Maidstone (7.8 miles), Tonbridge (9 miles), Tunbridge Wells (10.8 miles) offers a more comprehensive range of shopping and recreatational facilites.
The mainline train service operated by Southeastern offers a fast and frequent service from Yalding station (1 mile) to Maidstone, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood and onwards to Londong Bridge/Cannon Street|Charing Cross.
The property enjoys access to a wide range of Primary schools, with the main Grammar schools/Public schools being in Tonbridge and Maidstone.
Local leisure facilities include Bedgebury Pinetum, National trust properties - Sissinghurst and Scotney Castle. Leisure centres in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, Moatlands Golf course in Paddock Wood, Sailing at Bewl Water.
Directions
From Sevenoaks High Street head south to A225. Continue down River Hill bearing right towards the roundabout. At the roundabout take the 2nd exit onto the A21. Continue for approx 5.4 miles and take A26 exit to Tonbridge. At the roundabout take 2nd exit on the A26. At next roundabout take 3rd exit onto the B2017 (Tudeley Road). Continue for 3.7 miles, at the next roundabout take 1st exit to A228 (Maidstone Road).
At the next roundabout take 3rd exit onto A228 and after 0.4 miles turn left on to Beltring Road. At the end of the road take a slight left turn onto Lees Road and after 0.2 miles turn right onto Symonds Lane. Proceed for 0.3 miles where Mill Place Farmhouse will be found on the right hand side.
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