Location

East Lodge is located on a private road on the Village Green within the charming village of Frant in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Frant village is surrounded by countryside and has many attractive period properties and local amenities including a post office, village green, primary school, church and two popular public houses, the Abergaveny Arms, The George and the village store that local residents hope will reopen soon.   

Royal Tunbridge Wells (approximately 3.1 miles) is a historic spa town located about thirty miles south of London, surrounded by countryside offering a popular base for commuters. The town offers excellent cultural, leisure and shopping attractions including two theatres locally at The Assembly Halls and Trinity Theatre, together with the newly rejuvenated civic centre, The Amelia Scott. The town enjoys an abundance of cafés, such as Juliet's, Italian Delicatessen Arte Bianca and Fine Grind on the Hight Street and restaurants including Thackerays, The Ivy and The Old Fishmarket, together with a good mixture of national multiple retailers and independent shops.

State and private schools: Frant Church of England Primary School, Wadhurst primary school and Uplands Academy in Wadhurst, private preparatory schools in Wadhurst (Sacred Heart), Langton Green (Holmewood House), Tunbridge Wells (The Mead, Rose Hill), Five Ashes (Skippers Hill) and Hawkhurst (St Ronans and Marlborough House). Public schools including Beechwood in Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge for boys, Mayfield and Benenden for girls and Eastbourne, Bedes in Upper Dicker and Brighton, Kent College, Pembury and Sevenoaks which are co-ed.

Mainline rail: Frant station at Bells Yew Green (about 1.7 miles), or Wadhurst (about 3 miles), both on the main Hastings line into London Charing Cross/Cannon Street and London Bridge. Tunbridge Wells (approximately 2.8 miles) and Tonbridge (about 9.3 miles) with services to London Cannon Street and Charing Cross (via London Bridge and Waterloo East) from 42 minutes (Tonbridge to Cannon Street).   

Communications: The A21 (accessible just North of Tunbridge Wells) links to the M25. The A264 (from Langton Green) West links to Gatwick Airport via the M23.

Description

Believed to have been built in 1851, although in the classical Regency style, this fine individual detached house is Grade II listed and has been comprehensively and sympathetically updated and extended.

The property is arranged as a wonderful family home over three floors, which is both stylishly updated and ready to occupy, benefitting from a fine position, accessed over a 'no through' private road, running across the village green.

The countryside views to the rear are spectacular and are particularly enjoyed from the kitchen/dining room and the principal bedroom suite. Character features abound throughout the house, including many fireplaces, with two matching marble surrounds and fitted wood burners to both main reception rooms, plus period style radiators and oak flooring throughout the raised ground floor. Also, other details include stripped internal doors with painted architraves and a classic period staircase, positioned centrally within the house, complete with a mahogany rail and painted stick balusters.

The principal bedroom suite benefits from the stunning views and has a feature, raised, vaulted ceiling, complete with bespoke fitted wardrobes, along with two of the other five bedrooms.

The split-level kitchen/diner and the adjacent utility room have been fitted by Woodwork in Southborough, with quality appliances, painted units and oak flooring. The kitchen/diner offers a very generous entertaining space, which enjoys stunning countryside views out to the rear, through windows and doors accessing the rear garden. There is also a picture bay window, looking out over the formal side garden.

Outside, a rear courtyard provides secluded parking and a large, converted outbuilding provides for a garage, with electric sliding door and car charging point, as well as a workshop and store, and a studio room currently fitted out as a gym (but alternatively with potential for an outside home office, subject to any required consents).

The fine gardens complete the picture and comprise two interlinking distinct areas. Firstly, there is extensive terracing immediately to the rear of the house, onto a level lawned garden, where there are the stunning countryside views. While, additionally, tucked away around to the side, there is a surprising and delightful, walled and hedged garden, providing good seclusion and shelter, laid out formally, with lawn, flower beds and a variety of mature planting, including some delightful specimen trees. A single path leads around the lawn to a terraced area, to catch the evening sun.