BTF Partnership is offering for sale a beautifully restored, Grade II listed medieval hall house in the Weald of Kent, with excellent equestrian facilities, outbuildings and land extending to 19.58 acres, with a guide price of £2,375,000.
Hecton Farm sits within its own, ring-fenced land and is located in the tranquil and rural village of East Sutton, six miles southeast of Maidstone and three miles from Headcorn which has rail services to Charing Cross.
Hecton Farm was comprehensively restored by experts with English Heritage in 2003 and has been sympathetically modernised and updated by the current vendors in the past four years, creating a high specification equestrian unit. On the doorstep are quiet country lanes, various bridleways and TROT rides.
The accommodation, which includes many stunning period features throughout, consists on the ground floor of an entrance hallway, dining room, family room, sitting room, kitchen, utility room and bathroom. On the first floor there is a hidden, galleried study, family bathroom and three double bedrooms, one of which has stairs to a mezzanine floor currently used as an office and storage. The master bedroom suite has a further room used as a dressing room which could be an additional fifth bedroom, and an ensuite bathroom.
Outside there is a covered seating area, patio area, vegetable garden and greenhouse and a brick outbuilding currently used as a laundry with a separate outside w/c.
Accessed through separate electric gates is a six-bay, timber framed, insulated barn by FarmPlus with three enclosed bays and three open bays. There is a detached period barn which has been converted into a games room with a log store which has potential for conversion into ancillary accommodation subject to planning permission.
Accessed via the main driveway is a further detached workshop/store timber-clad building currently used as a general store.
The equestrian facilities located to the east of the house include a detached, insulated, timber-framed building split into a secure tack room, utility room and gym. There are six loose boxes, a covered wash down area, all-weather turnout pen and 20m x 50m Mark Scott sand school with a fibre wax surface.
The land is split into multiple paddocks which are all post and rail fenced. Ten acres is currently used as part of the equestrian yard and for all year-round turnout and the remaining land is grazed by sheep and cut for hay in the summer months.
Alex Cornwallis, at BTF Partnership, commented: “This is a unique and well-equipped period property with high specification fit out and excellent equestrian facilities, all in a quiet yet accessible part of the Weald. With these facilities and outbuildings there could be several further income generating uses.
“There are excellent schools nearby and road and rail links to central London. This property will suit a range of buyers looking for a truly unique and renovated property which is ready to move into and enjoy.”
Further details: www.btfpartnership.co.uk/property/friday-street-east-sutton/
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