Reception hall | Drawing room | Dining room/family room | Kitchen | Utility room/cloakroom | Four bedrooms | Family bathroom
Outside WC | Garage | Two timber garden stores
Delightful garden with long drive
About 0.8 acre
The Coach House is an attractive semi-detached family house, believed to have originally been built in 1778 as the coach house to Douces Manor and divided in to three cottages and subsequently divided again into two houses in 1971. It is of brick construction with brick and Kentish ragstone elevations and timber framed casement windows under a slate roof.
Internally many of the period features have been retained including exposed ceiling and wall timbers, half-moon windows, high ceilings, deep window sills, porthole windows, stripped and polished wood floors and original wall alcoves believed to have been tack holders.
Of particular merit is the large drawing room/dining room with its double doors leading to the garden at the rear and working fireplace with marble surround and hearth and wooden mantelpiece. The drawing room opens to the family room which features exposed ceiling and wall timbers.
The kitchen features a good range of solid wood fitted wall and floor cabinets with integral gas oven, four ring gas hob and extractor fan above, space for dishwasher and Hoover fridge/freezer. The garden benefits from views over the garden and countryside beyond.
Outside the kitchen is a large fully shelved larder cupboard. There is a useful utility room/cloakroom with space and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer with built in cupboards, WC and wash hand basin.
On the first floor are four double bedrooms, two with wash hand basins, and one with defunct en suite shower room.
The family bathroom features a light coloured suite and large linen cupboard.
West Malling is one of the most attractive market towns in Kent with a wide main street lined on each side by a fine collection of period town houses.
West Malling offers a good range of local and specialist facilities together with a mainline station serving London Victoria/Cannon Street.
Minutes away are the Kings Hill business park and David Lloyd sports centre offering superb tennis, swimming and fitness facilities.
Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells are all close by and provide an excellent and comprehensive range of educational, recreational and shopping facilities,
together with mainline stations serving London Bridge/Cannon Street/Charing Cross and Victoria.
Junction 4 of the M20 is about 1.5 miles ensuring quick communications with the M25, Gatwick, Heathrow, City and Stansted airports, the Channel tunnel and Ashford and Ebbsfleet international stations. For further information on train services in the area please visit www.nationalrail.co.uk
For further information on schooling in the area please visit www.kent-pages.co.uk/education
The house is approached from the road via a timber five bar gate and long sweeping tarmac driveway to a parking and turning area in front of the detached brick and timber garage.
The garden wraps around the house and is mainly laid to wide expanses of lawn with plentifully stocked herbaceous borders and mature and specimen trees and shrubs including several impressive beech trees.
A shingle path leads from the front to the side of the house.
Features include a vegetable garden and two timber garden stores together with a pretty cottage style garden to the front of the house.
The garden is bound by a yew hedge and close board fences and enjoys far reaching views over the adjacent park.
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