5 bed detached house for sale

High Street, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15

This exceptional home offers generous family living space, featuring two spacious reception rooms, an open-plan kitchen, and a large, secluded south-facing garden.

The well-proportioned drawing room enjoys a triple aspect, an impressive brick fireplace with a wood-burning stove, fitted cupboards, and sliding doors leading to the garden. The striking dining room showcases elegant linen-fold paneling and a fireplace, while the separate sitting room benefits from a front-facing outlook.

The spacious kitchen/breakfast room comprisies Shaker Kitchen Company cabinetry, quartz worktops, a central island, banquette seating, and sliding doors to the terrace. High-end appliances include a Fisher & Paykel fridge/freezer, Miele dishwasher, Falcon range, and a Perrin & Rowe boiling water tap. Limestone flooring with underfloor heating and integrated ceiling speakers complete the space.

The study with a fitted desk offers direct access to the rear terrace, while a boot room and cloakroom provide additional convenience off the entrance hall. A downstairs shower room leads to a family room with its own outdoor access and a feature spiral staircase to a private bedroom, creating an ideal self-contained suite for teenage or multi-generational living.

To the first floor, the principal bedroom boasts bespoke fitted furniture and a high-spec en suite shower room. Three further bedrooms are served by a stylish family bathroom with a roll-top bath and separate shower. A linen cupboard provides useful storage, and the fourth bedroom can serve as a dressing room or study.

The house is approached via a tree lined private lane, through electrically operated wooden gates, leading onto a gravel driveway with a turning circle. The drive provides access to a timber-framed triple garage with power and lighting. Well-maintained lawns bordered by established trees and shrubs, create a picturesque setting, while pedestrian gates on both sides lead to the rear gardens.

The beautifully landscaped gardens are predominantly laid to lawn, with a generous paved terrace spanning the width of the house. A central sheltered graveled area with timber arbour and climbing planting and a second terrace provide excellent areas for al fresco entertaining. A picket fence and beech hedging enclose the heated swimming pool and a timber framed gazebo. The rear garden is partially enclosed by walls and mature hedging, offering privacy. In total the area amounts to about 0.45 of an acre.

Agents note: The current owners have had plans and quotes for a loft conversion in the main house, offering buyers the potential to increase the living space under permitted development.

Holly House is situated in the sought after village of Seal Village with its bus service, butcher, grocer, newsagent, dentist, restaurants, primary school, church, public houses and local library.

Sevenoaks (2 miles) provides more comprehensive shopping as does Tunbridge Wells and Bluewater.

Sevenoaks station (2.4 miles) offers fast links to Cannon Street/Charing Cross and London Bridge from 22 minutes.

There are local Primary Schools in Seal, Stone Street, Kemsing and Otford. Secondary has two grammar annexes - Weald of Kent Girls Grammar, Tunbridge Wells Boys Grammar aand Trinity Schools (all within 0.4 miles via footpath). Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells offer further highly regarded grammar schools.

Sevenoaks is well served with Independent schools including Sevenoaks School, Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks Prep, Solefields, The Granville, Walthamstow Hall and New Beacon Preparatory Schools. Nearby are St Michaels & Russell House Preparatory Schools in Otford, Radnor House in Sundridge as well as Tonbridge Boys school.

Wildernesse and Knole Golf Clubs in Sevenoaks are both close by. Nizels Golf and Leisure Club is in Hildenborough. Sevenoaks Leisure Centre, cricket and rugby at the Sevenoaks Vine and The Stag Cinema and Theatre.