Property description

Believed to date from around the 15th century and originally a two bay medieval detached hall house, this unique Grade II Listed property has been restored and improved over recent years.

There are many period features including a 17th century inglenook fireplace, original 'coffin' floorboards, extensive exposed ceiling and wall beams and timbers and a Kentish 'catslide' roof.

The accommodation consists of a front and rear hall, a double aspect drawing room featuring an inglenook fireplace with wood burner and bread oven with salt niches as well as a moulded 'Dias' beam and large cruck beams, a dining room with bay window and inglenook fireplace, a triple aspect partially vaulted kitchen/breakfast room with the original 'jetty' end of the house clearly visible as a feature, doors to the terrace and a store/wine/boiler room, a triple aspect study with fitted shelving and two family bathrooms on the ground floor.

On the first floor there is a master bedroom with open inglenook fireplace, two further double bedrooms, one of which has a vaulted ceiling and a single bedroom. A staircase leads to an attic room currently used as an occasional double bedroom.

The property is set behind high mixed hedging and is approached via a five bar wooden gate onto a driveway that leads to ample off road parking and a good size detached garage. The front garden is laid mainly to lawn with flower beds and a gravel path that wraps around the property. The south east facing rear garden is laid predominantly to lawn interspersed with flower beds and sweeps down to a small stream and open farmland. Leading from the kitchen/breakfast room is a totally secluded gravelled terrace, ideally for entertaining, and to the rear of the garage is a secluded 'sun trap' decked area.

Enjoying a vibrant and active community life with a variety of societies/clubs, Smarden is a delightful, award winning, rural medieval Weaving Village with around 200 buildings of architectural and historical note dating from the 14th Century onwards.

Smarden enjoys traditional village amenities including a Butcher, Post Office, Art Gallery, Public House/Inn, School, Village Hall and St Michaels Church known as 'the Barn of Kent'.

As well as the local school there are a number of well regarded public and state schools available in the area.

Headcorn which offers a good selection of shops including a 'Sainsbury Local' is approximately 3 miles from Smarden and provides a mainline station with regular services to London Bridge, Charing Cross and Cannon Street and nearby Ashford International for the high speed link to London St Pancras (37 mins) and Europe (Eurostar). Tenterden, a little further afield, also offers a good variety of shops including Waitrose and Tesco's supermarkets as well as a good selection of restaurants.

Property Features :

• Stunning Converted Medieval Hall House
• Three Reception Rooms
• Kitchen/Breakfast Room
• Four Bedrooms, Two Bathrooms
• Attic Playroom/TV Room/Bedroom
• Gardens of Approx. 0.5 Acre
• Garage and Off Road Parking
• Sought After Rural Location