5 bed detached house for sale

Oakhill Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13

The Lodge is a handsome Edwardian red brick and part-weatherboarded double-fronted family home offering 2,049 sq ft of light-filled, flexible accommodation arranged over two floors. Configured to provide a practical and cohesive living and entertaining environment, the property offers modern amenities, quality fixtures and fittings and elegant décor throughout.

The ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming part double-height reception hall with wood-lined walls, useful storage, a cloakroom and a galleried landing over. It comprises a sitting room with a glazed door to the rear terrace and bespoke shelving incorporating double sliding pocket doors to a dining room with a front aspect bay. A separate family room leads into a dual-aspect kitchen, featuring quarry-tiled flooring, bespoke wooden wall and base units with matching work surfaces and splashbacks, and modern integrated appliances. The kitchen also features a walk-in pantry, space for a sizeable table for informal dining, and a spacious rear-facing fitted utility room with large sash windows, tongue-and-groove panelling, quarry tiles and a double Belfast sink.

Stairs rise from the reception hall to a generous galleried split-level first floor landing with further useful storage, bespoke shelving and space for a study or reading nook. It gives access to a principal bedroom with a fitted wardrobe and a part-glazed door to a private front aspect balcony, together with four further well-proportioned bedrooms, two with fitted storage which in one room incorporates a useful sink, and a family bathroom.

Set behind mature hedging and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached over a tarmac driveway with an expanse of the original cobbles dating to 1907 when this place was a coachhouse and stables. It provides private parking and gives access to a detached double garage and an integral single garage with an internal door to the rear garden. The generous well-maintained enclosed garden to the rear faces west, providing some fabulous sunsets. It is laid mainly to lawn bordered by well-stocked flower and shrub beds and screened by mature hedging and trees. It features a useful external store attached to the property’s side aspect, a screened orchard area with some parterre planting and a generous paved terrace spanning the full width of the property, accessible from the sitting and kitchen/breakfast rooms, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.

The property sits in a sought-after private road with a south-side entrance with electric gate for resident use only. Sevenoaks provides bars, restaurants, supermarkets including Waitrose and independent and High Street shopping. Local social and recreational activities including a theatre, cinema, library, leisure centre with swimming pool and fitness suite, Hollybush Recreation Ground, which provides tennis courts, bowls, an astroturf pitch, café and children's playground, and the 1,000-acre Knole Park. There is also golf at Knole and Wildernesse and cricket at The Vine. Transportation links are excellent: Sevenoaks mainline station (1.0 mile) offers speedy rail services to central London, and the A21, A25 and M25 link to the motorway network, London and the coast.