3 bed detached house for sale

Paynesfield Road, Tatsfield, Westerham, Surrey TN16

This distinctive detached home is approached via a paved driveway providing generous parking in addition to the double garage and double car barn. The ground floor offers four spacious reception rooms, including an impressive vaulted reception room featuring a highly decorative staircase, stone fireplace surround, exposed timbered ceiling, galleried landing and travertine flooring with underfloor heating. Additional reception spaces include a dining room with doors to the terrace, a study with panelled walls, built‐in bookshelves and underfloor heating as well as a living room with an Inglenook fireplace. Each room has been finished in a unique historical medieval style, incorporating stone fireplaces, parquet flooring, beamed ceilings and decorative coffered details.

The well‐appointed kitchen includes granite worktops, integrated and freestanding appliances and a peninsula breakfast bar. Also on the ground floor is a double bedroom with fitted wardrobes and an en suite shower room, along with a guest cloakroom completing the ground floor accommodation. The first floor provides two further bedrooms that share a family bathroom.

The grounds have been beautifully landscaped to create a series of distinct areas, including formal gardens, woodland and a meadow with a folly and established topiary. A wide variety of specimen trees and shrubs enhance the setting, along with several statues and fountains, most of which will remain, and a charming walled garden. In total, the gardens and grounds extend to approximately 1.75 acres.

Tatsfield is a sought after village located on the North Downs in between the villages of Westerham and Oxted. Tatsfield has its own shop/post office, the Bakery restaurant, pub and the Tatsfield Village Club. Tatsfield has an active village community with the Village Hall being the focal point for a number of clubs and societies. Oxted, Biggin Hill, Warlingham and Westerham offer more comprehensive shopping.

Woldingham, Upper Warlingham and Oxted stations all provide direct rail services to London, with trains from Oxted reaching London Bridge via East Croydon in around 33 minutes, and London Victoria via Clapham Junction in approximately 39 minutes. The M25 is easily accessed at Junction 6 (Godstone), giving convenient links to Gatwick and Heathrow airports, the Channel ports and the wider UK motorway network.

Local primary schools include Tatsfield Primary, Woodlea Primary in Woldingham and St Mary's in Oxted, with Oxted School providing secondary education. The wider area is also home to some of the South East's leading independent schools, including Woldingham School, Caterham School, Hazelwood School and Nursery in Oxted, and Sevenoaks School.

Leisure facilities nearby include the Tandridge Leisure Centre, Everyman Cinema and the Barn Theatre in Oxted. The area offers a good range of tennis, cricket and hockey clubs, as well as several popular golf courses such as North Downs, Tandridge, Limpsfield Chart and Westerham Golf Clubs. The surrounding Surrey Hills aonb provides excellent opportunities for walking, cycling and riding.