4 bed detached house for sale

Newnham Lane, Newnham, Kent ME9

Lady’s Wood was built in 1948 by a Czechoslovakian Count, Michal Vladimír Pálka, and is purported to be based on the design of a Czech estate shooting lodge. It is an attractive rough-rendered detached house and offers almost 2,700 sq ft of light-filled flexible accommodation arranged over two floors, with exciting potential to improve.

A single storey rear extension and double storey side extension were added in 2017/18 under planning ref: 17/501809/full, the works remain unfinished.

The property offers a prospective purchaser the opportunity to create a stunning semi-rural family home to their own specification. Configured to provide an ideal family and entertaining space, the accommodation flows from an entrance hall with full-height glazing flanking the front door and some useful storage.

The generous almost 21 ft sitting room has a wood-lined ceiling and a feature exposed brick open fireplace; the room is open to the dual aspect dining room with French doors to the terrace. The kitchen is fitted with a range of wooden wall and base units and integrated appliances; with space for a breakfast table. A useful cloakroom is set off the kitchen.

There are two further reception rooms, the smaller of which opens into an extensive L-shaped, triple-aspect room featuring large picture windows overlooking the rear garden and bi-fold doors leading out to the terrace — ideal for a variety of uses, including as a garden room.

On the first floor the property offers a principal bedroom with rear aspect bay and potential en suite bathroom, three further double bedrooms, all with useful eaves storage, and a family bathroom.

Agents Note: Parts of the house are unfinished so it is important that buyers take care on the viewing tour. Please follow the safety and risk assessment brief given by our viewing agents on arrival.

Screened by mature shrubs and trees, the property is approached through twin stone pillars and double wrought iron gates over a private driveway leading to a large parking area.

The grounds surrounding the property feature a principal garden laid mainly to lawn bordered by well-stocked flower and shrub beds, interspersed with mature ornamental trees, with a pond, seating areas and a paved terrace, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining. There is also an outbuilding.

The remaining land offers complete seclusion and tranquillity with charming pathways meandering through the lightly wooded grounds. A productive vineyard was planted to the south-westerly aspect in 1984 and could be reinstated if desired.

A further 15 acres of land is available by separate negotiation.

Located in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Newnham village has a church and pub, the latter within walking distance of the property. Nearby Doddington and Lynsted offer further village amenities.

The nearby mediaeval market town of Faversham and Sittingbourne town centre offer a wide range of facilities including high street and independent shopping, restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs. The cathedral city of Canterbury provides more extensive educational, shopping and recreational facilities.

Communications links are excellent: The A2 links to the M2 and motorway network, Teynham station (5.4 miles) offers regular services to central London and the Port of Dover and Channel Tunnel at Folkestone offer regular services to the Continent.