House For Sale £2,950,000
A handsome detached country house of 3684 sq ft of characterful accommodation with further scope to extend (stp) and update, set in about 1.7 acres of landscaped gardens with outdoor heated swimming pool and two large barns/garages and outbuildings
Description
Built in 1921, Crittleshaw is a characterful brick-built country house with tile hung first floor elevations. The house displays some lovely original features including fireplaces, high beamed ceilings, wood panelling, parquet flooring, terracotta tiled window sills, lead light casement windows and the original service bell system, which is in working order.
Planning permission has been granted in the past for the house to be extended further. This has now lapsed but gives precedence for reinstatement.
The house sits well back in the plot, a good distance from the road, behind electric gates, within about 1.7 acres of landscaped gardens with a heated outdoor swimming pool and useful outbuildings. The property backs on to woodland.
Features
- Spacious reception hall/study with brick fireplace.
- Inner hallway with parquet flooring, fireplace with flue for woodburning stove, solid oak staircase.
- Kitchen/breakfast room with terracotta tiled floor, substantial range of built-in wall, floor and peninsular units with granite worktops, 4-oven mains gas aga, single oven, De Dietrich ceramic hob, space for dishwasher and American style fridge freezer. Adjoining utility room with belfast sink and space for washing machine, stable style door to garden.
- Cloakroom.
- Dining room with bay window, brick fireplace with flue for woodburning stove, built in storage.
- Triple aspect sitting room with french doors leading to the garden. Large inglenook fireplace with jet master fire and bressummer beam over.
- Triple aspect principal bedroom with Jack & Jill bathroom including double ended bath with shower over.
- Six further double bedrooms (4 first floor and 2 second floor), some with fireplaces and fitted storage/wardrobes.
- Family bathroom on the first floor with roll top freestanding bath with claw feet, telephone style taps, basin set into vanity unit with marble top.
- Second floor shower room with waterfall shower.
Outside
- Electric telephone entry wooden gates opening onto a tarmac driveway, leading to a brick paved parking/turning area.
- There is a large detached barn/garage with vehicular access from the driveway to one half and a vaulted workshop/store at the other end, considered to offer potential (stp) to create garaging. Beyond the barn is an area of hard standing.
- Second detached barn.
- The front garden has a rose adorned pergola walk, formal garden, greenhouse and vegetable patch.
- The side gardens are divided into hedged “rooms” stocked with mature shrubs and there is potential to restore an old Victorian water garden.
- To the rear of the house, steps lead down to a level lawn and extensive York stone terrace with a beautiful fountain at one end and a heated outdoor swimming pool with electric safety cover. There is a pump house and a tractor store/shed at one end of the lawn.
- From the terrace the lawn falls away gently towards woodland to the rear, both of which are carpeted with Bluebells in the Spring.
Situation
The property is located on the rural edge of the popular village of Knockholt, about midway between Sevenoaks and Orpington on the North Downs. The village has a convenience store, two popular pubs, a village hall/centre, recreation ground with tennis and bowling clubs and a local garage, just over a mile from the property. There are also two thriving garden centres, one of which hosts a monthly farmers market.
Knockholt station (about 3.8 miles) has services to London Charing Cross (via London Bridge and Waterloo East) in under 45 minutes. Similar services are available at either Orpington or Sevenoaks, and faster journeys can be made by changing at Chelsfield.
Orpington (about 7 miles) and Sevenoaks (about 7 miles) both offer a comprehensive range of shopping, leisure and recreational facilities.
Knockholt has a good primary school, about a third of a mile from the property, Pratts Bottom also has a good primary school about 3 miles from the property. There are several popular preparatory schools in nearby Sevenoaks, Otford and Sundridge, and Independent and grammar schools in Orpington, Bromley and Sevenoaks as well as Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
The property is well placed for gaining access to the M25 (junction 4 about 5.5 miles), which in turn provides links to London, the national motorway network, Gatwick, Stansted and Heathrow International airports, the Channel Tunnel and Kent coast.
There are some lovely walks to be enjoyed along the North Downs with footpaths easily accessible from the property. Golf can be enjoyed at nearby Broke Hill, Shoreham, Westerham and Sevenoaks; sailing at Chelsfield Lakes; cricket at The Vine in Sevenoaks and Sevenoaks also has a leisure centre.
Directions
From the M25, exit at junction 4 onto the A21 towards London. At the third roundabout take the first exit onto Rushmore Hill. Continue on this road for about 3.4 miles, through Knockholt, past the Church. Crittleshaw can be found on the right-hand side shortly after the fork to Brasted on the left.
Property information
- Services: Mains gas fired central heating. Mains water, electricity and drainage.
- Local Authority: Sevenoaks District Council
- Council Tax band: G (£3457.02 for 2022/23)
- Fixtures and fittings are excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation.
Knockholt is a small village located midway between Sevenoaks and Orpington on the North Downs. The village has a convenience store, two popular pubs, a village hall/centre, recreation ground with tennis and bowling clubs and a local garage, which are all within half a mile of the property. There are also two thriving garden centres within a mile of the property, one of which hosts a monthly farmers market.
Knockholt station (about 3 miles) has services to London Charing Cross (via London Bridge and Waterloo East) in under 45 minutes. Similar services are available at either Orpington or Sevenoaks, and faster journeys can be made by changing at Chelsfield.
Orpington (about 6 miles) and Sevenoaks (about 5 miles) both offer a comprehensive range of shopping, leisure and recreational facilities.
Knockholt has a good primary school, about 1.2 miles from the property, Pratts Bottom also has a good primary school about 1.5 miles from the property. There are several popular preparatory schools in nearby Sevenoaks, Otford and Sundridge, and Independent and grammar schools in Orpington, Bromley and Sevenoaks as well as Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
Description
Built in 1921, Crittleshaw is a characterful brick-built country house with tile hung first floor elevations. The house displays some lovely original features including fireplaces, high beamed ceilings, wood panelling, parquet flooring, terracotta tiled window sills, lead light casement windows and the original service bell system, which is in working order.
Planning permission has been granted in the past for the house to be extended further. This has now lapsed but gives precedence for reinstatement.
The house sits well back in the plot, a good distance from the road, behind electric gates, within about 1.7 acres of landscaped gardens with a heated outdoor swimming pool and useful outbuildings. The property backs on to woodland.
Features
- Spacious reception hall/study with brick fireplace.
- Inner hallway with parquet flooring, fireplace with flue for woodburning stove, solid oak staircase.
- Kitchen/breakfast room with terracotta tiled floor, substantial range of built-in wall, floor and peninsular units with granite worktops, 4-oven mains gas aga, single oven, De Dietrich ceramic hob, space for dishwasher and American style fridge freezer. Adjoining utility room with belfast sink and space for washing machine, stable style door to garden.
- Cloakroom.
- Dining room with bay window, brick fireplace with flue for woodburning stove, built in storage.
- Triple aspect sitting room with french doors leading to the garden. Large inglenook fireplace with jet master fire and bressummer beam over.
- Triple aspect principal bedroom with Jack & Jill bathroom including double ended bath with shower over.
- Six further double bedrooms (4 first floor and 2 second floor), some with fireplaces and fitted storage/wardrobes.
- Family bathroom on the first floor with roll top freestanding bath with claw feet, telephone style taps, basin set into vanity unit with marble top.
- Second floor shower room with waterfall shower.
Outside
- Electric telephone entry wooden gates opening onto a tarmac driveway, leading to a brick paved parking/turning area.
- There is a large detached barn/garage with vehicular access from the driveway to one half and a vaulted workshop/store at the other end, considered to offer potential (stp) to create garaging. Beyond the barn is an area of hard standing.
- Second detached barn.
- The front garden has a rose adorned pergola walk, formal garden, greenhouse and vegetable patch.
- The side gardens are divided into hedged “rooms” stocked with mature shrubs and there is potential to restore an old Victorian water garden.
- To the rear of the house, steps lead down to a level lawn and extensive York stone terrace with a beautiful fountain at one end and a heated outdoor swimming pool with electric safety cover. There is a pump house and a tractor store/shed at one end of the lawn.
- From the terrace the lawn falls away gently towards woodland to the rear, both of which are carpeted with Bluebells in the Spring.
Situation
The property is located on the rural edge of the popular village of Knockholt, about midway between Sevenoaks and Orpington on the North Downs. The village has a convenience store, two popular pubs, a village hall/centre, recreation ground with tennis and bowling clubs and a local garage, just over a mile from the property. There are also two thriving garden centres, one of which hosts a monthly farmers market.
Knockholt station (about 3.8 miles) has services to London Charing Cross (via London Bridge and Waterloo East) in under 45 minutes. Similar services are available at either Orpington or Sevenoaks, and faster journeys can be made by changing at Chelsfield.
Orpington (about 7 miles) and Sevenoaks (about 7 miles) both offer a comprehensive range of shopping, leisure and recreational facilities.
Knockholt has a good primary school, about a third of a mile from the property, Pratts Bottom also has a good primary school about 3 miles from the property. There are several popular preparatory schools in nearby Sevenoaks, Otford and Sundridge, and Independent and grammar schools in Orpington, Bromley and Sevenoaks as well as Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
The property is well placed for gaining access to the M25 (junction 4 about 5.5 miles), which in turn provides links to London, the national motorway network, Gatwick, Stansted and Heathrow International airports, the Channel Tunnel and Kent coast.
There are some lovely walks to be enjoyed along the North Downs with footpaths easily accessible from the property. Golf can be enjoyed at nearby Broke Hill, Shoreham, Westerham and Sevenoaks; sailing at Chelsfield Lakes; cricket at The Vine in Sevenoaks and Sevenoaks also has a leisure centre.
Directions
From the M25, exit at junction 4 onto the A21 towards London. At the third roundabout take the first exit onto Rushmore Hill. Continue on this road for about 3.4 miles, through Knockholt, past the Church. Crittleshaw can be found on the right-hand side shortly after the fork to Brasted on the left.
Property information
- Services: Mains gas fired central heating. Mains water, electricity and drainage.
- Local Authority: Sevenoaks District Council
- Council Tax band: G (£3457.02 for 2022/23)
- Fixtures and fittings are excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation.
Knockholt is a small village located midway between Sevenoaks and Orpington on the North Downs. The village has a convenience store, two popular pubs, a village hall/centre, recreation ground with tennis and bowling clubs and a local garage, which are all within half a mile of the property. There are also two thriving garden centres within a mile of the property, one of which hosts a monthly farmers market.
Knockholt station (about 3 miles) has services to London Charing Cross (via London Bridge and Waterloo East) in under 45 minutes. Similar services are available at either Orpington or Sevenoaks, and faster journeys can be made by changing at Chelsfield.
Orpington (about 6 miles) and Sevenoaks (about 5 miles) both offer a comprehensive range of shopping, leisure and recreational facilities.
Knockholt has a good primary school, about 1.2 miles from the property, Pratts Bottom also has a good primary school about 1.5 miles from the property. There are several popular preparatory schools in nearby Sevenoaks, Otford and Sundridge, and Independent and grammar schools in Orpington, Bromley and Sevenoaks as well as Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
