House For Sale £1,650,000
A handsome Grade II listed farmhouse with outbuildings set in beautiful gardens of over an acre.
Bough Beech Farmhouse is coming to the market for the first time in almost half a century. The original section of the property is believed to date back to the 16th century with additions made in the last century.
The half tile-hung house is full of charm and character and provides an opportunity for purchasers to update. There are many period features throughout including inglenook fireplaces, oak beams, lead light casement windows and a stair turret.
In addition to the house there is a haycroft barn, a tractor shed and a heated swimming pool, set in gardens of about 1.2 acres. The house is set back from the road in a well screened and private plot.
Additional Land
There is a plot of woodland amounting to about a third of an acre across the road and a paddock of just under an acre adjacent to the property that the vendors will consider selling by separate negotiation.
Features
- Gravel driveway leading to parking at the front and side of the property.
- Attractive gardens incorporating mature trees and shrubs, expanses of lawn, flower beds, a vegetable garden and a selection of fruit bearing trees including a bountiful fig.
- Heated swimming pool with paved terrace surround.
- Stable block comprising 2 loose boxes and a tack/feed room.
- Outbuilding offering superb storage or possible potential to convert, including a two storey haycroft barn/garage, large workshop and two additional store rooms.
- Flexible ground floor accommodation including a semi-partitioned drawing/dining room with inglenook fireplace, separate sitting room leading through to garden room and a part-vaulted kitchen with wood block and tiled worktops and an aga.
- Six bedrooms arranged over the first and second floors including the principal bedroom suite with walk-through dressing room and en suite bathroom. Two further shower rooms.
Situation
Bough Beech Farmhouse occupies a convenient rural position just North of Hever and Chiddingstone, in the small hamlet of Bough Beech. Bough Beech has a popular country pub and restaurant located close to this property.
The nearby village of Chiddingstone (1.4 miles) has a village stores/post office and tea room and Chiddingstone Causeway (1.8 miles) and Four Elms (1.9 miles) also have local shopping facilities.
Edenbridge (4 miles), Westerham (6 miles), Sevenoaks (7.5 miles), Tonbridge (8 miles) and Tunbridge Wells (11 miles) all provide more comprehensive shopping and recreational facilities.
Edenbridge has two train stations (3.6 and 3.9 miles) with services to Tonbridge, Oxted, London Bridge (from 44 mins), Croydon and Redhill (both having services to London Victoria, with changes taking about an hour). Hildenborough Station (5.4 miles) has services to London Charing Cross/Cannon Street (from 47 minutes). Penshurst station (2 miles) serves Tonbridge and Edenbridge/Redhill. There is a bus stop just across the road from the property with services to Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
There are a good number of well regarded schools in the local area including Chiddingstone, Four Elms and Leigh primary schools. Grammar schools for both boys and girls in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells as well as the Weald of Kent girls grammar annexe in Sevenoaks. Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Public Schools and a variety of Preparatory Schools in and around Sevenoaks and Tonbridge including Hilden Grange, the Schools at Somerhill and New Beacon. Holmewood House at Langton Green and Walthamstow Hall for Girls.
The A21 (6 miles) gives access to the M25 and thereby the national motorway network, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports, the Channel Tunnel Terminus and Ports, as well as Ebbsfleet International Terminal and Bluewater.
Leisure facilities include golf courses at Hever and Nizels and sailing at Bough Beech Reservoir. There is also a private health/fitness centre at Nizels. Tonbridge School Sports Centre.
Directions
Viewings strictly by appointment through Jackson-Stops.
From the M25, junction 5, head south on the A21 for about 9.5 miles. Exit at the Sevenoaks/Hildenborough turn off and take the fourth exit on the roundabout towards Weald. After about a mile turn left onto Scabharbour Road. At the end of the road (about 3.4 miles) turn right onto the B2027. Bough Beech Farmhouse will be found on the left-hand side after about 1.8 miles, just before The Wheatsheaf pub.
Property information
- Services: Oil fired central heating. Mains water, electricity and drainage.
- Local Authority: Sevenoaks District Council, Council Tax band: H (£4,022.52 for 2021/22)
- Fixtures and fittings are excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation.
Bough Beech Farmhouse occupies a convenient rural position just North of Hever and Chiddingstone, in the small hamlet of Bough Beech. Bough Beech has a popular country pub and restaurant located close to this property.
The nearby village of Chiddingstone (1.4 miles) has a village stores/post office and tea room and Chiddingstone Causeway (1.8 miles) and Four Elms (1.9 miles) also have local shopping facilities.
Edenbridge (4 miles), Westerham (6 miles), Sevenoaks (7.5 miles), Tonbridge (8 miles) and Tunbridge Wells (11 miles) all provide more comprehensive shopping and recreational facilities.
Edenbridge has two train stations (3.6 and 3.9 miles) with services to Tonbridge, Oxted, London Bridge (from 44 mins), Croydon and Redhill (both having services to London Victoria, with changes taking about an hour). Hildenborough Station (5.4 miles) has services to London Charing Cross/Cannon Street (from 47 minutes). Penshurst station (2 miles) serves Tonbridge and Edenbridge/Redhill. There is a bus stop just across the road from the property with services to Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
There are a good number of well regarded schools in the local area including Chiddingstone, Four Elms and Leigh primary schools. Grammar schools for both boys and girls in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells as well as the Weald of Kent girls grammar annexe in Sevenoaks. Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Public Schools and a variety of Preparatory Schools in and around Sevenoaks and Tonbridge including Hilden Grange, the Schools at Somerhill and New Beacon. Holmewood House at Langton Green and Walthamstow Hall for Girls.
The A21 (6 miles) gives access to the M25 and thereby the national motorway network, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports, the Channel Tunnel Terminus and Ports, as well as Ebbsfleet International Terminal and Bluewater.
Leisure facilities include golf courses at Hever and Nizels and sailing at Bough Beech Reservoir. There is also a private health/fitness centre at Nizels. Tonbridge School Sports Centre.
Bough Beech Farmhouse is coming to the market for the first time in almost half a century. The original section of the property is believed to date back to the 16th century with additions made in the last century.
The half tile-hung house is full of charm and character and provides an opportunity for purchasers to update. There are many period features throughout including inglenook fireplaces, oak beams, lead light casement windows and a stair turret.
In addition to the house there is a haycroft barn, a tractor shed and a heated swimming pool, set in gardens of about 1.2 acres. The house is set back from the road in a well screened and private plot.
Additional Land
There is a plot of woodland amounting to about a third of an acre across the road and a paddock of just under an acre adjacent to the property that the vendors will consider selling by separate negotiation.
Features
- Gravel driveway leading to parking at the front and side of the property.
- Attractive gardens incorporating mature trees and shrubs, expanses of lawn, flower beds, a vegetable garden and a selection of fruit bearing trees including a bountiful fig.
- Heated swimming pool with paved terrace surround.
- Stable block comprising 2 loose boxes and a tack/feed room.
- Outbuilding offering superb storage or possible potential to convert, including a two storey haycroft barn/garage, large workshop and two additional store rooms.
- Flexible ground floor accommodation including a semi-partitioned drawing/dining room with inglenook fireplace, separate sitting room leading through to garden room and a part-vaulted kitchen with wood block and tiled worktops and an aga.
- Six bedrooms arranged over the first and second floors including the principal bedroom suite with walk-through dressing room and en suite bathroom. Two further shower rooms.
Situation
Bough Beech Farmhouse occupies a convenient rural position just North of Hever and Chiddingstone, in the small hamlet of Bough Beech. Bough Beech has a popular country pub and restaurant located close to this property.
The nearby village of Chiddingstone (1.4 miles) has a village stores/post office and tea room and Chiddingstone Causeway (1.8 miles) and Four Elms (1.9 miles) also have local shopping facilities.
Edenbridge (4 miles), Westerham (6 miles), Sevenoaks (7.5 miles), Tonbridge (8 miles) and Tunbridge Wells (11 miles) all provide more comprehensive shopping and recreational facilities.
Edenbridge has two train stations (3.6 and 3.9 miles) with services to Tonbridge, Oxted, London Bridge (from 44 mins), Croydon and Redhill (both having services to London Victoria, with changes taking about an hour). Hildenborough Station (5.4 miles) has services to London Charing Cross/Cannon Street (from 47 minutes). Penshurst station (2 miles) serves Tonbridge and Edenbridge/Redhill. There is a bus stop just across the road from the property with services to Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
There are a good number of well regarded schools in the local area including Chiddingstone, Four Elms and Leigh primary schools. Grammar schools for both boys and girls in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells as well as the Weald of Kent girls grammar annexe in Sevenoaks. Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Public Schools and a variety of Preparatory Schools in and around Sevenoaks and Tonbridge including Hilden Grange, the Schools at Somerhill and New Beacon. Holmewood House at Langton Green and Walthamstow Hall for Girls.
The A21 (6 miles) gives access to the M25 and thereby the national motorway network, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports, the Channel Tunnel Terminus and Ports, as well as Ebbsfleet International Terminal and Bluewater.
Leisure facilities include golf courses at Hever and Nizels and sailing at Bough Beech Reservoir. There is also a private health/fitness centre at Nizels. Tonbridge School Sports Centre.
Directions
Viewings strictly by appointment through Jackson-Stops.
From the M25, junction 5, head south on the A21 for about 9.5 miles. Exit at the Sevenoaks/Hildenborough turn off and take the fourth exit on the roundabout towards Weald. After about a mile turn left onto Scabharbour Road. At the end of the road (about 3.4 miles) turn right onto the B2027. Bough Beech Farmhouse will be found on the left-hand side after about 1.8 miles, just before The Wheatsheaf pub.
Property information
- Services: Oil fired central heating. Mains water, electricity and drainage.
- Local Authority: Sevenoaks District Council, Council Tax band: H (£4,022.52 for 2021/22)
- Fixtures and fittings are excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation.
Bough Beech Farmhouse occupies a convenient rural position just North of Hever and Chiddingstone, in the small hamlet of Bough Beech. Bough Beech has a popular country pub and restaurant located close to this property.
The nearby village of Chiddingstone (1.4 miles) has a village stores/post office and tea room and Chiddingstone Causeway (1.8 miles) and Four Elms (1.9 miles) also have local shopping facilities.
Edenbridge (4 miles), Westerham (6 miles), Sevenoaks (7.5 miles), Tonbridge (8 miles) and Tunbridge Wells (11 miles) all provide more comprehensive shopping and recreational facilities.
Edenbridge has two train stations (3.6 and 3.9 miles) with services to Tonbridge, Oxted, London Bridge (from 44 mins), Croydon and Redhill (both having services to London Victoria, with changes taking about an hour). Hildenborough Station (5.4 miles) has services to London Charing Cross/Cannon Street (from 47 minutes). Penshurst station (2 miles) serves Tonbridge and Edenbridge/Redhill. There is a bus stop just across the road from the property with services to Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
There are a good number of well regarded schools in the local area including Chiddingstone, Four Elms and Leigh primary schools. Grammar schools for both boys and girls in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells as well as the Weald of Kent girls grammar annexe in Sevenoaks. Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Public Schools and a variety of Preparatory Schools in and around Sevenoaks and Tonbridge including Hilden Grange, the Schools at Somerhill and New Beacon. Holmewood House at Langton Green and Walthamstow Hall for Girls.
The A21 (6 miles) gives access to the M25 and thereby the national motorway network, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports, the Channel Tunnel Terminus and Ports, as well as Ebbsfleet International Terminal and Bluewater.
Leisure facilities include golf courses at Hever and Nizels and sailing at Bough Beech Reservoir. There is also a private health/fitness centre at Nizels. Tonbridge School Sports Centre.
