Location

Comprehensive Shopping: Sevenoaks (5 miles), Tonbridge (4 miles), Tunbridge Wells and Bluewater.

Mainline Rail Services: Hildenborough (0.7 miles) to Cannon Street/Charing Cross/London Bridge.

Primary Schools: Various in Hildenborough.

Grammar Schools: Tonbridge, Sevenoaks & Tunbridge Wells.

Private Schools: Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Walthamstow Hall Secondary Schools. Radnor House for Girls in Sundridge and Kent College in Pembury. Sevenoaks, Solefields, and New Beacon Preparatory Schools in Sevenoaks. Sackville in Hildenborough. Holmewood House preparatory school in Langton Green and Somerhill Preparatory Schools in Tonbridge.

Sporting Facilities: Nizels Golf Club in Hildenborough is close by with a private health/fitness centre. Hilden Golf Driving Range and Fitness Centre is nearby. Golf clubs in Sevenoaks include Wildernesse and Knole. Sevenoaks leisure centre. Squash Club at Tonbridge School.

Communications: Access to the A21 is about 2.7 miles and links with the M25, other motorway networks and Gatwick and Heathrow Airports.

All distances are approximate.

Description

Fauchons is situated within the Green Belt in a sought after semi-rural location conveniently located within 0.7 miles of Hildenborough station and 1.2 miles from the village which provides local shopping facilities, a village hall, schools, café, bus stop, public houses and a church.

The impressive reception rooms comprise a double aspect sitting room with a bay window and feature fireplace, a beamed dining room and snug, both with fireplaces and doors opening to the terrace, and a superb south facing orangery with a vaulted light well, also with access to the terrace.

The well-appointed kitchen is fitted with a range of wall and base units with granite worktops, an island, a four oven Aga, a walk-in larder and opens the orangery. Leading off a rear hall with a wine and domestic cupboard is a laundry/utility room providing additional space for appliances, and a boiler room with a W.C.

Leading from the oak floored front hall is a cloakroom which completes the ground floor accommodation.

Stairs rise from the entrance hall to a first floor galleried landing. The principal bedroom suite which features an attractive fireplace and delightful views over the grounds, is served by an en suite bathroom with feature bath, twin basins, walk-in wet room shower, W.C and bidet. There are four further bedrooms, two of which have en suites, together with a family bathroom incorporating a sauna.

Arranged over the second floor and completing the accommodation is a bedroom with en suite bathroom, a sitting/play room and access to ample eaves storage.

Fauchons is accessed via a gated driveway flanked with lawn and hornbeam hedging, culminating at the house and garaging. The heated garage block has a separate workshop, a garden W.C, a games store and a first floor office suite or staff accommodation with shower room and kitchenette. Additionally situated around a yard there is a traditional Kentish oak framed tractor barn, wood workshop, two garden stores with storage over, and a greenhouse.

The impressive rear gardens are predominantly laid to landscaped lawn, interspersed with an abundance of established specimen trees, with flower beds stocked with herbaceous shrubs and perennials. There is a pond adorned with aquatic planting and a path leads to the tennis court. To the easterly boundary is a paddock and woodland with potential for equestrian purposes or the grazing of livestock.

Directions

On leaving Sevenoaks, proceed southwards towards Hildenborough on the B245. Opposite the Mill Garage, turn right signposted Leigh and Penshurst into Watts Cross Road. Continue for about ¼ of a mile and turn right into Philpots Lane (first turning on the right). Fauchons will be found after approximately 0.6 of a mile on the left hand side.