Property description

Designed to take advantage of its surroundings, 8 Stanhope Way is an attractive part-weatherboarded family home offering flexible light-filled accommodation arranged in an upside-down configuration over two floors. The ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming wooden-floored reception hall with useful storage and a door to the integral double garage/gym which benefits from a useful fitted utility area. It briefly comprises a spacious principal bedroom with a glazed door to the rear terrace and a modern fully-tiled en suite bathroom, two further double bedrooms, one with built-in storage, and a modern family bathroom.

Stairs rise from the entrance hall to the first floor opening into an extensive wooden-floored open plan sitting/dining room, with full-height glazing, patio doors to a generous terrace and a glazed door to a rear aspect decked balcony with panoramic views over the Darent river and valley, and a spiral staircase down to ground floor level. The first floor accommodation is completed by a well-proportioned kitchen with a range of wall and base units, wooden worktops, a Belfast sink and modern integrated appliances together with a generous office and a further double bedroom with useful neighbouring cloakroom.

The property sits in the stunning Darent Valley near to Chipstead village which offers day-to-day amenities including a chapel, church, two public houses and a 74-acre lake used for angling and sailing and to Riverhead which offers good local shopping facilities including convenience store, butcher, pharmacy and Tesco superstore. Sevenoaks offers a more comprehensive selection of shops, restaurants, cafés and supermarkets including Waitrose together with sporting facilities including a leisure centre, golf at Knole and Wildernesse, tennis at Hollybush and cricket at The Vine. Slightly further afield, Hildenborough offers a good selection of local shopping and sporting facilities including Nizels Golf Club with its private health/fitness centre and Hilden Golf and Fitness Centre while the market town of Tonbridge offers access to a wide range of both independent and larger stores, together with pubs, restaurants, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, sporting clubs and a leisure centre. Communications links are excellent: Trains from Dunton Green and Sevenoaks stations offer excellent and speedy connections to London and the property also enjoys excellent links to the motorway network via the A21, A25 and M25 for London and the coast.

The area offers a wide range of state primary and secondary schooling including Riverhead Infants’ School (rated Outstanding by Ofsted), together with a good selection of noted independent schools including The Granville, Walthamstow Hall, The New Beacon, Radnor House, Sevenoaks, Solefield and Sevenoaks Prep.

Having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached over a low maintenance tarmac driveway providing private parking in front of the integral double garage and bordered by an area of level lawn. The enclosed garden to the rear is laid mainly to lawn edged by well-stocked flowerbeds and features a paved seating area and a spacious split-level paved terrace part-covered by a bespoke gazebo and with a spiral staircase rising to the first floor balcony with an electric canopy, all ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole screened by mature trees.
Amenities

Panoramic views over the Darent river

Balcony from reception room

Integral double garage

Enclosed garden