A surprising house with stables, area, over 23 acres and off-road hacking, simply half-hour from London

Coldharbour Farm is in an idyllic place inside a conservation space with far-reaching views over its personal adjoining fields and a few pretty equestrian services.

This property is in Kent, six miles from Sevenoaks, 4 miles from Tonbridge and eight miles from each Tunbridge Wells and the large procuring centre at Bluewater. The A21 and M25 are simply accessible and there’s a railway station two miles away at Hildenborough, which might get you into London Bridge, Charing Cross and Cannon Avenue in 30, 40 and 50 minutes respectively. For those who’re focused on travelling to the Continent, the ferry port at Dover is simply over an hour’s drive away.

Your decide of native equestrian centres embrace Cobham Manor (35 minutes), Duckhurst Farm (35 minutes), White Horse Farm (25 minutes) and Hickstead (45 minutes). You may take your horse cross-country education at Bonfleur XC, which is 35 minutes’ drive away.

Must you be in want of a vet, Bell Equine is simply quarter-hour away.

Coldharbour Farm is in the marketplace with Savills with a information value of £4.75m. Let’s have a look round…

The equestrian services are an actual function and embrace a big American barn, presently with 4 stables to 1 facet with inner and exterior doorways plus a tack room and sliding doorways to both finish. The opposite facet is presently utilised as a barn for agricultural storage, however extra stables may very well be put in if required. Above the stables is a mezzanine space accessed by way of a ladder, offering extra storage.

There may be an Olympic-sized all-weather area, which has lighting, plus a separate turnout/lunge pen.

The pasture is split into some smaller turnout paddocks and three bigger open and stage fields which the present proprietor utilises to provide hay and for cross-country education. This property sits in a complete of 23.12 acres.

A bridlepath abuts the land that gives entry to a wonderful community of off-road using.

The instant gardens and grounds are predominantly laid to landscaped garden, with quite a lot of established shrubs and specimen bushes.

There’s a massive paved terrace that spans the facet of the property with views from an elevated place over the property’s paddocks and past. Stone steps result in a decrease stage terrace and a pure swimming pool with a decked space.

Coldharbour Farm is on the finish of a no-through public highway. Getting into the principle home, there’s a sitting room with wall and ceiling timbers and an inglenook fire inset with a wooden burning range, which opens to a reception space with a vaulted ceiling and an workplace within the roundel.

The kitchen/eating space is fitted with a bespoke vary of wall and base items with integral home equipment and skylights inside a vaulted ceiling, along with bi-fold doorways opening to the terrace. There may be additionally a wine fridge and breakfast bar, plus a cloakroom with a storage cabinet.

Additionally on the bottom flooring is a play room and video games room, each with function fireplaces and a double side. A utility room and boot room present extra storage and house for home equipment, and there’s a helpful cloakroom off the doorway corridor.

There are 5 bedrooms on the primary flooring, one with an en-suite bathe room with twin basins and a dressing room, and one utilised as a research with stairs rising to the second flooring. There may be additionally a household lavatory and a separate bathe room with a linen cabinet on the primary flooring.

Organized over the whole lot of the second flooring is a bed room with eaves entry and an adjoining rest room.

The Cottage adjoins the outbuildings and is self-contained with a kitchen/residing space with uncovered timbers and wooden burning range and doorways opening to the terrace. It has two bedrooms, each served by a bathe room.

A spread of outbuildings curve round a courtyard backyard and embrace a variety of versatile retailer rooms linked with an open bay log retailer.

The outbuildings embrace a health club and workplace with energy and heating/air-con.

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Gemma is an skilled journalist, having been a part of the H&H staff since 2014, who’s keen about all equestrian sports activities, together with racing and point-to-pointing. She has loved using out for prime trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took half in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting abilities have taken her to quite a few five-star occasions round Britain and Europe, in addition to European championships.