House For Sale £665,000
** virtual tours available upon request ** With the historic High Street just a few minutes' walk away, this characterful detached home occupies an elevated spot nestled within the contours of Hosey Hill and benefits from a charming outlook towards the roof tops and chimney pots of the town.
Dating to c1930, the property offers pleasingly symmetrical proportions with well-balanced accommodation, centred around a welcoming entrance hall and galleried upper landing.
All of the rooms are dual or triple aspect, ensuring that the house benefits from a superb quality of natural light throughout.
The kitchen offers plenty of storage and prep space with a separate utility room catering for laundry appliances and providing additional shelving. All the bedrooms are double sized with the bathroom benefitting from both a full-length bath and a separate shower.
Externally, an attractive colonnaded open veranda opens to a level garden space oriented to the front and side, offering excellent seclusion.
Driveway parking for two cars and a garage accommodating a car together with ancillary storage/workshop space, completes the profile of this unique home.
Agents’ note: (i) Lapsed planning permission exists to extend/remodel the existing garage to accommodate two cars (ii) Please note that as this property is elevated above street level, there is a substantial set of steps ascending from the driveway to the front door
Points of note
• Period features to include exposed floorboards, quarry tiled sills and stripped pine doors
• Spacious entrance hallway with a deep understairs’ recess for coats/shoes and door to a useful cloakroom with WC and floor mounted vanity cabinet with basin, mixer tap and integral storage cupboards/drawers
• Triple aspect sitting room with French doors out to the veranda and feature brick fireplace with inset log burner, wooden mantle and quarry tiled hearth
• Dining room of pleasingly square proportions with French doors opening to the veranda and an aspect to the side garden space. Door leading through to:
• Kitchen with exposed brickwork chimney breast complete with dual fuel burner. Comprehensive mix of painted wooden base and wall cupboards with work surfaces over and a blend of tile/tongue-and-groove panelled splashbacks, undercounter space for a fridge, freezer and dishwasher, space for a freestanding cooker, inset 1 1/2 bowl stainless steel Franke sink with period style mixer tap
• A wide staircase ascends to the first floor bedroom accommodation consisting of three double sized bedrooms to include a generously sized main bedroom with a picturesque outlook to the front and integral wardrobes. Bedroom two with an array of fitted wardrobes and original storage cupboard. Bedroom three presently used as a study/home office
• Bathroom with full-length panelled bath, close coupled WC, pedestal basin and shower cubicle with drench head. Localised wall tiling and vinyl flooring
• Upper landing with a hatch/drop-down ladder to a part-boarded loft space
• Externally the striking colonnaded veranda overhangs a flagstone terrace creating an area that is ideal for relaxing and entertaining, where views can be enjoyed towards the historic rooftops of Westerham and The North Downs beyond. A level lawn stretches immediately in front and a discreetly sited timber shed offers useful storage for garden equipment. Steps curve around a landscaped bank with mature shrubs and trees, descending to the lower driveway area. Additional garden space extends to both sides of the property, with the area adjacent to the dining room offering great scope to be landscaped specifically as a further outdoor seating/dining area should one wish
• Driveway parking for two cars in tandem and a 1 1/2 sized garage with electrically operated roller door and internal power
Dating to c1930, the property offers pleasingly symmetrical proportions with well-balanced accommodation, centred around a welcoming entrance hall and galleried upper landing.
All of the rooms are dual or triple aspect, ensuring that the house benefits from a superb quality of natural light throughout.
The kitchen offers plenty of storage and prep space with a separate utility room catering for laundry appliances and providing additional shelving. All the bedrooms are double sized with the bathroom benefitting from both a full-length bath and a separate shower.
Externally, an attractive colonnaded open veranda opens to a level garden space oriented to the front and side, offering excellent seclusion.
Driveway parking for two cars and a garage accommodating a car together with ancillary storage/workshop space, completes the profile of this unique home.
Agents’ note: (i) Lapsed planning permission exists to extend/remodel the existing garage to accommodate two cars (ii) Please note that as this property is elevated above street level, there is a substantial set of steps ascending from the driveway to the front door
Points of note
• Period features to include exposed floorboards, quarry tiled sills and stripped pine doors
• Spacious entrance hallway with a deep understairs’ recess for coats/shoes and door to a useful cloakroom with WC and floor mounted vanity cabinet with basin, mixer tap and integral storage cupboards/drawers
• Triple aspect sitting room with French doors out to the veranda and feature brick fireplace with inset log burner, wooden mantle and quarry tiled hearth
• Dining room of pleasingly square proportions with French doors opening to the veranda and an aspect to the side garden space. Door leading through to:
• Kitchen with exposed brickwork chimney breast complete with dual fuel burner. Comprehensive mix of painted wooden base and wall cupboards with work surfaces over and a blend of tile/tongue-and-groove panelled splashbacks, undercounter space for a fridge, freezer and dishwasher, space for a freestanding cooker, inset 1 1/2 bowl stainless steel Franke sink with period style mixer tap
• A wide staircase ascends to the first floor bedroom accommodation consisting of three double sized bedrooms to include a generously sized main bedroom with a picturesque outlook to the front and integral wardrobes. Bedroom two with an array of fitted wardrobes and original storage cupboard. Bedroom three presently used as a study/home office
• Bathroom with full-length panelled bath, close coupled WC, pedestal basin and shower cubicle with drench head. Localised wall tiling and vinyl flooring
• Upper landing with a hatch/drop-down ladder to a part-boarded loft space
• Externally the striking colonnaded veranda overhangs a flagstone terrace creating an area that is ideal for relaxing and entertaining, where views can be enjoyed towards the historic rooftops of Westerham and The North Downs beyond. A level lawn stretches immediately in front and a discreetly sited timber shed offers useful storage for garden equipment. Steps curve around a landscaped bank with mature shrubs and trees, descending to the lower driveway area. Additional garden space extends to both sides of the property, with the area adjacent to the dining room offering great scope to be landscaped specifically as a further outdoor seating/dining area should one wish
• Driveway parking for two cars in tandem and a 1 1/2 sized garage with electrically operated roller door and internal power
