3, Sweetpea Cottage, The Street, Ashford, TN26 2BU

Ref: 1550205 The sort of cottage people move to Appledore for! SweetPea Cottage has exactly the sort of feel buyers hope to find when they start talking about moving to a Kent village.

It’s full of character without feeling like a museum, practical without losing its charm, and sits in the heart of Appledore with the pub, tea room, village shop and antiques all close at hand.

Then step beyond the village and you’re straight into the landscape that makes this part of Kent so special - lanes, open countryside and the Royal Military Canal all close enough to become part of everyday life rather than somewhere you drive to at weekends.

Appledore Local History Society Come home and light the fire The lounge is everything a cottage sitting room should be.

Exposed beams run overhead, built-in shelving gives it plenty of personality, and the brick fireplace with log burner is the obvious focal point.

This is the room for dark winter evenings, wet boots by the door and absolutely no reason to go back out again once the fire is going.

The separate dining room next door keeps entertaining easy without asking one room to do everything.

There’s proper space for a decent-sized table, and the beams continue through here too, so the character doesn’t suddenly stop the moment you leave the lounge.

A kitchen that feels like it belongs here The kitchen gets the balance right.

Shaker-style cabinetry, a Belfast sink, range-style cooker and timber flooring give it a genuine cottage feel, while the layout itself is practical enough for everyday life.

There’s plenty of workspace, useful storage and room to cook properly - the sort of kitchen where breakfast turns into coffee, coffee turns into lunch and suddenly half the day has disappeared.

A door opens straight out to the garden, which makes summer life easier too. Three bedrooms, and the top floor is the fun one. The first floor gives you two good bedrooms and the bathroom.

Then the second floor opens into a brilliant loft-style bedroom with exposed beams, sloping ceilings and windows bringing in plenty of natural light.

It has real personality and would make a great main bedroom, guest suite, teenager’s hideaway or simply the room everyone argues over first.

That third floor also means the cottage offers more space than you might expect when you first see it from outside.

A garden for actually using The garden wraps around the cottage on its corner position, creating different little areas rather than one narrow strip of outside space.

There’s lawn, planting, places to sit and room to make the garden your own.

The paved area is ideal for eating outside or having people over, while the brick outbuilding and additional storage mean bikes, tools, gardening kit and all the less photogenic parts of life don’t have to live indoors.

And because there’s off-road parking too, you get something that isn’t always easy to find with older village cottages: Charm without the daily parking headache.

Village life without feeling cut off Appledore has the bits people actually want from village life.

You can walk to The Black Lion for a drink or something to eat, wander to Miss Mollett's High Class Tea Room for coffee or afternoon tea, pick up essentials from Appledore Village Stores & Post office and browse The Old Forge Emporium without getting in the car.

The village itself has a long history, with medieval houses, a 14th-century church and a main street full of historic buildings.

Appledore Local History Society The Royal Military Canal is close by, and the wider landscape around Appledore opens into Romney Marsh, making walking and cycling a genuine part of the lifestyle here rather than something saved for holidays.

Street Live And when you want more, Rye and Tenterden are both within easy reach, giving you independent shops, restaurants and bigger-day-out options without losing the quieter village base.

Street Live Why SweetPea Cottage? Because it gives you the things people usually have to compromise between. Character, but still practical. Village life, but with useful amenities.

A cottage garden, but with parking too. And countryside on the doorstep without feeling isolated.

It’s the sort of place where the house and the lifestyle make sense together - and that’s really what we should be selling.

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All interested parties must verify the accuracy via their solicitor, who will check any relevant lease information, related charges, parking, ground rents, fixtures/fittings, rights of way/access, permissions for extensions/conversions, and required planning/building regulations.

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