Location

Longdowns Cottage is situated within a charming semi-rural location at the foot of the North Downs with far reaching southerly views.

Local Shops: Kemsing village (1 mile) offers local shopping facilities. Otford is about 2.3 miles away with Sainsburys Superstore.

Comprehensive Shopping: Sevenoaks (4.5 miles) offering supermarkets and high street shops.

Mainline Station: Otford (2 miles) and Sevenoaks (4.7 miles) London Bridge (from 22 minutes)/Cannon Street/ Charing Cross & London Victoria.

Primary Schools: Sevenoaks, Kemsing and Seal.

Secondary Schools: Knole Academy, Weald of Kent Grammar & Tunbridge Wells Boys Grammar annexes and Trinity Schools in Sevenoaks. Several in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.

Private Schools: The Granville, Sevenoaks, Walthamstow Hall, Solefields and New Beacon Prep Schools. St Michael’s and Russell House Prep Schools in Otford. Radnor House in Sundridge. Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Walthamstow Hall Secondary Schools.

Leisure Facilities: Golf in Otford, Shoreham and Eynsford. Wildnernesse and Knole golf clubs in Sevenoaks & Nizels in Hildenborough with gym and health club. Leisure centres in Sevenoaks and Tonbridge. Bridle paths and walks are abundant in the area.

Please note that all distances and timings are approximate.

Description

Longdowns Cottage is an imposing detached family home situated within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty & Green Belt, offering well-appointed & versatile living space, immaculately presented throughout with a stylish finish.

The striking reception hall provides a magnificent entrance to the property and features a staircase rises to the first floor and landing, with a partly vaulted ceiling and apex window with far reaching views to the front.

The impressive primary reception rooms comprise a spacious drawing room with a box bay window and feature fireplace, a double aspect sitting room, and a dining room with an internal Crittall wall frame and doors opening to the rear terrace. There is a cinema room which could also be utilised as an additional reception room if required, and a study with fitted Rencraft cabinetry and an outlook over the garden.

The magnificent kitchen/breakfast room by Rencraft is fitted with a comprehensive range of bespoke wall and base units with integral Miele appliances and a matching island unit incorporating a breakfast bar. The breakfast area has a charming outlook to the rear, together with doors opening to the terrace.

An adjoining utility room provides additional storage and spaces for appliances, and provides a cloakroom and access to the integral garage and outside. A secondary cloakroom completes the ground floor.

The magnificent principal bedroom suite enjoys southerly views over the countryside to the front and is served by a stylish en suite bathroom and well-proportioned dressing room with fitted furnishings.

There is a further bedroom also served by a modern en suite bathroom and separate dressing room with fitted furnishings.

Completing the first floor are three additional bedrooms, one with fitted wardrobes and an en suite shower room, and two served by a well-appointed family bathroom.

Arranged over the entirety of the second floor and completing the accommodation is a bedroom with eaves access and an en suite shower room with access to a roof terrace, and a versatile snug/study.

Longdowns Cottage is approached over a sweeping gravel driveway via electronically operated gates, culminating at a turning circle inset with a water fountain edged with nepeta, and the integral garage, providing ample off road parking.

The manicured gardens are predominantly laid to landscaped lawn, interspersed with a variety of deciduous and evergreen specimen shrubs and trees, together with well-stocked flowerbeds and hedging to the perimeter.

An expansive paved terrace spans the rear of the property, providing ideal areas for al fresco entertaining.

Steps continue to an additional paved terrace, inset with a swimming pool and access to a pool house, and enclosed with brick walling inset with water fountains and ambient lighting.

Towards the rear is a detached gym and a belt of established mixed woodland, with a paddock beyond with trees to the perimeter providing a degree of privacy. In total the plot amounts to about 13.09 acres, ideal for a variety of recreational uses including equestrian.

Directions

From junction 5 of the M25, take the A21 turn off and proceed onto the A25 heading east through the traffic lights and after passing through Seal, continue up the hill and take the 2nd left signposted Heaverham and Kemsing. Continue through Heaverham turning right just after Crowdleham House into Cotmans Ash Lane, at the top, turn left where the driveway for Longdowns Cottage will be found along on the right.