The Old Vicarage, Hawkhurst, Kent
The Old Vicarage is an elegant Grade II listed family home offering excellent accommodation within impressive landscaped gardens and grounds.
The property dates from the Georgian period and has been sympathetically updated and refurbished to create beautifully presented and well considered accommodation, amounting to in excess of 4,400 sq ft.
Approached through a gated entrance and over a gravel drive to a parking area, the accommodation within The Old Vicarage is arranged over three floors. To the ground floor, the reception hall gives access to a dual aspect drawing room, dining room, study and office with Richard Edmondson bespoke joinery. A hallway leads to the cloakroom and utility, impressive kitchen/breakfast room designed by Richard Edmondson, and sitting room beyond, with double doors opening to a terrace. At the end of the hallway is access to the courtyard, with stairs from the hallway down to a cellar, where there are three large and adaptable rooms/stores and a wine cellar.
Accessed from the first floor landing is the dual aspect principal bedroom with en suite bathroom, three further bedrooms, dressing room, family bathroom and WC. Off the landing, and through a doorway, steps up lead to an additional two bedrooms, one en suite, and a family bathroom potentially providing useful private guest or staff accommodation.
Features of note throughout the house include high ceilings, full height sash windows with views over the gardens and grounds, original window shutters, intricate cornicing, stone fireplaces and wide floorboards.
Attached to the main house and situated around the courtyard, enclosed on three sides, are useful outbuildings, including a wood store, garden machinery store, potting shed, garden store, workshop and garage, as well as gardener’s WC. There is a further log store within the grounds.
The gardens and grounds are a particular feature of The Old Vicarage, having been designed by Chelsea gold medallist Roger Platts, with established specimen trees including great oaks, a piane tree, shrubs, flower beds and topiary.
Surrounding the house and providing privacy on all sides, the exceptional gardens are well maintained and include a recently paved terrace to the rear of the property and the formal garden laid mainly to lawn with a beautiful water feature and ha-ha. A kitchen garden can be found within the walled garden, which also benefits from a private pathway to St Laurence Church.
Beyond this is a paddock and wooded area. In total, the gardens and grounds amount to about 6.46 acres.
The Old Vicarage, located close to St Laurence Church and The Moor, and within the High Weald National Landscape, is about 0.8 miles to the south of Hawkhurst, which offers good local amenities. This includes supermarkets, Kino digital cinema, independent shops and several pubs and restaurants. More extensive shopping and leisure facilities can be found in Cranbrook (5.1 miles), Tenterden (11.3 miles) and Tunbridge Wells (15 miles). There are mainline rail services from Etchingham (4.6 miles) or Staplehurst (10.6 miles), with frequent services to London via London Bridge and Waterloo East.
Will Peppitt, Savills head of residential in the south east, says: “The Old Vicarage is a beautifully presented country house near the popular village of Hawkhurst. This impressive, six-bedroom family home is set in exceptional landscaped gardens designed by Chelsea gold medal winner Roger Platts.”
The Old Vicarage is being marketed by Savills for a guide price of £3,500,000.
