4 Bedroom Detached House For Sale in Barnsole Road, Staple, Canterbury, Kent CT3 1LE

2 4 1 1 Land Size: 0 acres

Located on the corner of Chalkpit Lane and Barnsole Road, this charming L-shaped Grade II Listed property was originally built in 1704 and extended around 1850. It is surrounded by a curved brick wall and high hedging providing privacy and security and situated within 0.7898 acres of gardens and a paddock. The property has delightful external features including original brickwork, high chimney stacks, multi-pane casement windows and impressive panelled oak doors and is approached via a five bar gate opening onto a large gravel driveway where you can park numerous vehicles. This leads to the garage and is bordered by shrub and rose beds, lawns and a path to the front door as well as access to a tiled patio and the back door.

The entrance hall has attractive herringbone parquet flooring and leads to the delightful family room with a wide low windowsill and a brick fireplace with a log burner. This could be used as an elegant formal dining room where guests would enjoy being entertained but is currently used as a second reception room with a very different ambience to the gorgeous and characterful living room that has exposed oak beams, large inglenook fireplace with a Bressumer beam and access to the kitchen/breakfast room. This traditional country kitchen includes ceiling beams, original terracotta floor tiles, a Falcon range cooker and attractive units from John Lewis housing an integrated dishwasher and stand-alone appliances as well as an oak panelled door to the garden and space for a table and chairs. There is also has a utility room with space for laundry facilities, the downstairs cloakroom and access to the useful cellar with plenty of storage potential.

The first floor landing has a fitted cupboard and leads to a trendy tiled family bathroom with a stand-alone oval bath and a double bedroom as well as an archway through to three further double bedrooms with delightful views including one with a walk-in wardrobe.

Outside there are impressive mature trees, various lawn areas divided by hedging, a greenhouse, a shed and a gravel path bordered by flower and shrub beds that leads around the lawns to a charming wildlife pond as well to the paddock with post and rail fencing that would be ideal for a pony.

To potentially provide additional accommodation, planning permission has been granted for plans to build a new large double garage (63 square metres footprint) with two offices above as well as a WC cloakroom and a balcony overlooking the garden.

We bought this property in 2015 as it had always been our dream to live in a Kent farmhouse with a large garden. We love the property and the beautiful surroundings, and are only leaving it because we are re-locating to Ireland to pursue new career opportunities. The village is a very friendly place with its recreation ground, 14th century church and village hall where a variety of regular activities take place as well as the annual and very popular Staple Country Fayre. We live opposite the quintessential 16th century Black Pig pub/restaurant, (originally built from ships timbers from local shipwreck), so it is great to be able to pop over for a meal without having to take the car out. The area even has the award winning Barnsole Vineyard for wine enthusiasts and an excellent garden centre with a cafe.

There are wonderful places to go for walks as far as Chillenden where you can stop for a drink at The Griffin’s head, Ash with its surgery, primary and private school or the nearby village of Wingham. This has a good primary school, pubs and shops and the Wingham Wildlife Park while Gibsons farm shop/food hall and cafe is just the place to buy something special for the dining table or a place to meet your friends for breakfast or coffee.

It is only about nine miles to the historic city of Canterbury with its ancient buildings, high street stores, individual shops, theatres and restaurants as well as two mainline stations including Canterbury West where the fast train will get you to London in under an hour. It is less than five miles to the ancient Cinque Port town of Sandwich and its famous Championship golf courses, while Adisham includes the nearest railway station.

Important information

This is a Freehold property.

This property is exempt from EPC Rating