7 Bed Detached House, Single Let, Ashford, TN27 8EX £1,750,000

On the first and second floors, the main bedroom suite features exposed beams and benefits from a walk in wardrobe and an en suite shower room. There are six further bedrooms, including two substantial attic bedrooms, all served by a family bathroom, a shower room and an en suite shower room on the second floor.

Great Batchelors is approached via electric gates that open to a gravel drive continuing to an area of parking and turning. The property sits in lovely mature established part walled gardens with level lawns interspersed with an array of seasonal shrubs, specimen trees and two ponds. Screened from the front garden by a brick wall, is an outdoor swimming pool, heated via an air source heat pump. Within the gardens there is also a Pergoda enhanced by a vine and climbing roses, a versatile summerhouse currently used as a home office and a pump room.

To the south of the house lies Little Batchelors, the extremely versatile detached annexe. Completed in 2022 by Meopham & Wood, it has been stylishly finished with under floor heating and comprising an open plan sitting/dining room and fully fitted kitchen with sliding doors opening out to a private decked terrace. To either end of the open plan space are two en suite bedrooms.

Completing the property are a number of useful outbuildings, including a bike store and a log store.

Location

Great Batchelors is situated about 1.3 miles to the west of the pretty Kentish village of Biddenden, where there is a general store, beautiful old church, village primary school and public house. The property is also located within Cranbrook School catchment (2026).

More comprehensive shopping and other facilities can be found in Headcorn, Tenterden and Ashford. There are a number of golf clubs including Chart Hills, Tenterden and Dale Hill in Ticehurst.

Headcorn and Pluckley stations provide excellent commuter links to London Bridge, Waterloo East and Charing Cross. A high speed train service runs between Ashford and London St Pancras in about 38 minutes.

Great Batchelors is located within Cranbrook School catchment and there is an excellent selection of schools in the area; grammar schools for boys and girls in Ashford and Maidstone, various local primary schools and in the private sector independent girls and boys schools in Cranbrook, Hawkhurst, Ashford, Sutton Valence, Canterbury and Tonbridge.

The M25 can be accessed via the M20 at junction 10 providing links to Gatwick and Heathrow airport and other motorway networks.

*All distance and travel times are approximate.

Square Footage: 4,680 sq ft

Acreage: 1.8 Acres

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Additional Info

Services: Oil fired central heating, mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Council tax - Annexe - B.

Agent's Note: The photographs date from April and June 2025