6 Bed Semi-Detached House, Single Let, Wadhurst, TN5 7JU £2,250,000

The house also benefits from substantial cellarage too, ideal for storage and a workroom and offering further potential too, these days, subject to the listing.

Outside: Whiligh is accessed via a long private drive, wrapping around the building, with a gated, very generous gravelled, parking and turning area in front of the house. The private grounds which amount to approximately 3.38 acres, comprising extensive formal gardens and terracing, landscaped around the drive, a further walled garden and also an extensive area of wooded, parkland and some woodland. Outbuildings include a summerhouse/store by the terrace and a tractor store/shed accessed in the parkland.

Whiligh also has easy access to delightful countryside walks.

Location

Whiligh is located on the outskirts of the thriving and pretty village of Wadhurst, named the best place to live in the UK in March 2023 by the Sunday Times. Wadhurst offers a good selection of local shops, including a butcher, delicatessen, hairdressers and florist, together with two supermarkets, including a Jempsons. There is also a post office, a fine church, doctors’ surgery, a sports centre which is shared with the local secondary school, a garage, plus pubs and a variety of cafes and restaurants.

The large town of Tunbridge Wells is approximately 8 miles to the north, with extensive shopping, cultural and entertainment amenities including two theatres, cafes and restaurants, health clubs and and Knights Park out-of-town retail park. Recreational facilities in the area include golf courses at Lamberhurst, Flimwell and Tunbridge Wells and Bewl Water, the largest stretch of open water in the South East with options including horse riding walking and cycling trails, sailing, canoeing and fishing. There is a tennis club and football club near-by at Sparrows Green, as well as a good network of footpaths in the vicinity and a sports centre at Uplands in Wadhurst.

Mainline rail: Wadhurst station is approximately 2.1 miles away, with commuter services to Charing Cross (via London Bridge and Waterloo East) and Cannon Street, or Frant station (Bells Yew Green) is on the same line approximately 5 miles away. Alternatively, Tonbridge (approximately 13.9 miles via the A21 accessed at Lamberhurst), offers more frequent services.

Communications: The A21, accessible to the east at Lamberhurst, links to the M25 (junction 5) and thereby the national motorway network, Gatwick and Heathrow airports and the Eurotunnel.

State and private schools: 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 for girls and Eastbourne, Bedes in Upper Dicker and Brighton, Kent College, Pembury and Sevenoaks which are co-ed.
All distances are approximate.

Square Footage: 5,670 sq ft

Acreage: 3.38 Acres

Additional Info

Services: Mains electricity and mains water supplied by the estate. Private Septic tank drainage.

Some Japanese Knotweed has been sighted in the grounds, which is well away from the house, and this will be dealt with under an insurance backed, long term professional treatment plan.