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For saleReduced £45k (−4.5%) on 21 AugListed 389 days
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Excellent detached property with potential to update and no onward chain, situated on a private road with off road parking, garage & garden, approx. 1.3 miles from Sevenoaks station.
Description Wagtails is an excellent detached property with accommodation arranged over one level, being offered with no onward chain and potential to update, situated on a private road with off road parking, garage & garden, approx.
1.3 miles from Sevenoaks station (via footpath). Reception rooms comprise a well-proportioned sitting room with a fireplace and double doors leading to an adjoining dining room.
Both rooms enjoy direct access to the gardens. The kitchen is fitted with a range of wall and base units with some integral appliances and a door opening to outside.
The principal bedroom benefits from built-in storage and an en suite shower room.
There are two further bedrooms, one which has been utilised as a study and has some fitted storage, and a family bathroom. Two storage cupboards to the hall complete the internal accommodation.
To the front a driveway provides off road parking and slopes down to the lower ground floor garaging. A stepped path leads up to the front of the property.
Gardens lie to both sides of the property, one with a pathway leading to the rear garden and an expanse of lawn to the other side with established shrubs and mature trees.
The lawn continues round to the rear garden with a paved terrace, garden shed/summer house and established borders.
Location Wagtails is set in a desirable Sevenoaks location, ideally located for popular local schools (being within half a mile of Weald of Kent & Tunbridge Wells Boys Grammar Annexes and Trinity), together with the station and High Street, benefitting from a multitude of shops, supermarkets, pubs and restaurants.
Also of particular note is the easy access to Knole Park (0.7 miles via footpath and 1.5 miles by road), which is one of Kent's last medieval deer parks and enjoys over 1,000 acres of beautiful parkland.
Comprehensive Shopping: Sevenoaks (about 1.1 miles), Tunbridge Wells & Bluewater.
Mainline Rail Services: Sevenoaks (about 1.3 miles) to London Bridge (from 22 minutes)/Charing Cross/Cannon Street.
Primary Schools: St John’s cep (0.5 miles), St Thomas’ rcp, Sevenoaks, and Lady Boswell’s cep Schools.
Secondary Schools: Weald of Kent & Tunbridge Wells Boys Grammar Annexes and Trinity Schools (0.5 miles) & Knole Academy in Sevenoaks. Several in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
Private Schools: New Beacon, Sevenoaks, The Granville and Solefields Prep Schools. Walthamstow Hall for Girls (0.7 miles). Sevenoaks, Sackville and Tonbridge Secondary Schools.
St Michael’s and Russell House Prep Schools in Otford. Radnor House in Sundridge. Leisure Facilities: Hollybush Recreation Ground and Tennis Centre. Sevenoaks Bowling Club.
Knole (0.7 miles) and Wildernesse (1.6 miles) Golf Clubs in Sevenoaks. Nizels Golf & Country Club in Hildenborough. Sevenoaks leisure centre.
Cricket, rugby and hockey in the Vine area of Sevenoaks. The Stag Theatre and Cinema. Please note that all distances, timings and measurements are approximate.
Square Footage: 1,392 sq ft Acreage: 0.23 Acres Directions From our office on Sevenoaks High Street head in a northerly direction on the A225 and turn right onto Seal Hollow Road after the traffic lights.
Continue to follow the road, and after passing Blackhall Lane on the right, turn left onto Hillborough Avenue. Continue to the end and Wagtails can be found on the left hand side.
Additional Info All mains services connected. Agents Note: There are TPOs on the trees to the rear and side boundaries. Wagtails has a right of access over the neighbours drive.
There is an annual contribution for the private road.
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