Detached House for sale with 4 bedrooms, Tilmanstone, Deal

This unique early 17th century Grade II Listed property provides a rare opportunity to create a simply stunning country residence. It is surrounded by 8.496 acres of paddocks and pastureland and includes a vast approximately 3,300sq.ft. barn that is around 20 ft high and not listed, so has excellent development potential subject to the appropriate planning permissions.

The house has been lived in by the same family for the past 40 years and does require a complete refurbishment. However the basic structure provides an excellent blank canvas with large and well-proportioned rooms, fabulous original period features and delightful views across the countryside.

The primary access to the property is down a very long private drive that is flanked by fields and leads to a five bar gate and an inner driveway with a parking area. It is at this stage that you can enjoy your initial view of the amazing external façade of the house. Influenced by the Dutch architecture of the period you can only marvel at the pointed arched entrance, original brickwork, the Kent peg tiled roof, high chimneystacks and casement windows and are immediately transported back to the 1600s.

A very old and impressive front door (with an equally impressive sized key) opens into a spacious hall with access to the ground floor accommodation with period wood flooring that flows through much of the property. There is a walk-in coat and storage cupboard, a large, dual aspect sitting room with an exposed central beam, a rear brick wall and a vast inglenook fireplace with a log burner and a terracotta hearth and a good sized dining room that also has a brick fireplace with a terracotta hearth and a fitted corner cupboard.

The spacious and well-proportioned dual aspect kitchen/breakfast room offers views across the countryside as far as Eastry church. It provides access to the cellar as well as to a boot room, utility/cloakroom and a period back door that opens onto a sheltered hard standing area where you can sit and enjoy al fresco dining.

On the first floor there is an airing cupboard and a good sized family bathroom as well as four large double bedrooms. These include a very characterful room with a panelled ceiling, a seating area and direct access to a loft space and two very large doubles with exposed central beams and impressive cast iron fireplaces. On the second floor you will fine two sizeable vaulted loft rooms with dual aspect and far reaching views.

There are undulating lawns and some stunning specimen trees surrounding the property and access to the barn with its approximately 14ft high doors. Internally this currently includes five large stables and a store area as well as plenty of space for storing hay and feed. A second pair of high doors open into the stable yard where there is a brick stable and additional stabling. While these additional stables are in a somewhat parlous state, they are attached to a rear wall that is solid flint and brick so this area could become a stunning stable block for horsey enthusiasts or has potential for residential development subject to the necessary planning permissions.

From the stable block there is access to some of the four paddocks that range in size from over three acres to around a third of an acre and there are numerous bridlepaths nearby so you can enjoy a hack without having to go on the roads. There is also a secondary driveway that leads to Pike Road, which could be very useful if residential development was implemented as it would provide additional access to the property.