House For Sale £550,000
Situation: The property is situated in a convenient and elevated position in the sought after village of Wadhurst and is within just a few minutes’ walk of the High Street. The village offers an excellent range of shops and services for everyday needs including a Jempson’s Local store and post office, café, delicatessen, butcher, baker, pharmacy, bookshop, art gallery, florist, off licence, public houses, as well as a doctor’s surgery, dentist, primary school and the well regarded Uplands Community College and Sports Centre.
For the commuter, Wadhurst mainline station is approximately 1½ miles distant and provides a regular service to London Charing Cross/Cannon Street in an hour. There is a regular bus service and the A21 is also within easy reach providing a direct link to the M25 (junction 5) and the coast. Gatwick Airport is about 40 miles to the west, the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone is about 46 miles to the east and central London is about 50 miles away. The regional centre of Tunbridge Wells is just 6½ miles distant and provides a comprehensive range of amenities including the Royal Victoria Shopping centre, cinema complex and theatres.
The beautiful surrounding countryside is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and includes Bewl Water Reservoir, reputedly the largest area of inland water in the South East, where a wide range of water sports can be enjoyed.
Description: 1 Balliol Cottages is an extended semi-detached period cottage with attractive external elevations of brick beneath a tiled roof and double glazed windows and doors throughout. The cottage is well presented and provides light, spacious and flexible accommodation of approximately 1,517sq.ft/141sq.m and also offers excellent scope for re-modelling the living space, if required.
The accommodation is arranged over two floors and includes on the ground floor: An entrance hall, a good-sized, double aspect sitting room which extends to nearly 24ft and has an attractive open fireplace and French doors leading out to the garden; an inner hall leading to a family room/downstairs bedroom - this room could easily be knocked through into the kitchen to create a very large open plan kitchen/dining/family room. A door from the hall leads to an open plan kitchen/dining room, which extends to over 20ft and has an extensive range of beech shaker style wall and base units, range cooker, island with breakfast bar, pantry cupboard with original brick floor, door leading out to the garden and door leading to a utility room with doors to a downstairs shower room/wc and out to the rear of the house. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms – all having built in cupboards – and a well appointed family bathroom.
Outside there is off road parking and pretty front gardens with mature flower borders, hedging and an area of lawn. A brick path leads along the side of the property to a side gate, which gives access to the rear garden, where there is a large storage shed, further garden shed and a south west facing garden, which is mainly laid to lawn with a variety of shrubs and plants, a mature hornbeam tree and a terrace outside the sitting room.
Services: Mains water and electricity. Gas central heating
EPC rating: E
Local authority: Wealden District Council Council tax rating: Band E (£2,586.15 per annum)
For the commuter, Wadhurst mainline station is approximately 1½ miles distant and provides a regular service to London Charing Cross/Cannon Street in an hour. There is a regular bus service and the A21 is also within easy reach providing a direct link to the M25 (junction 5) and the coast. Gatwick Airport is about 40 miles to the west, the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone is about 46 miles to the east and central London is about 50 miles away. The regional centre of Tunbridge Wells is just 6½ miles distant and provides a comprehensive range of amenities including the Royal Victoria Shopping centre, cinema complex and theatres.
The beautiful surrounding countryside is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and includes Bewl Water Reservoir, reputedly the largest area of inland water in the South East, where a wide range of water sports can be enjoyed.
Description: 1 Balliol Cottages is an extended semi-detached period cottage with attractive external elevations of brick beneath a tiled roof and double glazed windows and doors throughout. The cottage is well presented and provides light, spacious and flexible accommodation of approximately 1,517sq.ft/141sq.m and also offers excellent scope for re-modelling the living space, if required.
The accommodation is arranged over two floors and includes on the ground floor: An entrance hall, a good-sized, double aspect sitting room which extends to nearly 24ft and has an attractive open fireplace and French doors leading out to the garden; an inner hall leading to a family room/downstairs bedroom - this room could easily be knocked through into the kitchen to create a very large open plan kitchen/dining/family room. A door from the hall leads to an open plan kitchen/dining room, which extends to over 20ft and has an extensive range of beech shaker style wall and base units, range cooker, island with breakfast bar, pantry cupboard with original brick floor, door leading out to the garden and door leading to a utility room with doors to a downstairs shower room/wc and out to the rear of the house. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms – all having built in cupboards – and a well appointed family bathroom.
Outside there is off road parking and pretty front gardens with mature flower borders, hedging and an area of lawn. A brick path leads along the side of the property to a side gate, which gives access to the rear garden, where there is a large storage shed, further garden shed and a south west facing garden, which is mainly laid to lawn with a variety of shrubs and plants, a mature hornbeam tree and a terrace outside the sitting room.
Services: Mains water and electricity. Gas central heating
EPC rating: E
Local authority: Wealden District Council Council tax rating: Band E (£2,586.15 per annum)
