High Street, Cranbrook, Kent

Dating from the 16th century and with an 18th century frontage, 17 High Street is an attractive double-fronted shop pair with the benefit of generous cellarage and an extensive two-storey five bedroom maisonette over, the whole offering just over 1,900 sq. ft. of light-filled, flexible retail and living space, sensitively combining modern amenities with period features including double central entrance doors to the shop and casement glazing to the upper floors. The predominantly open plan shop features a large full-width shop floor with exposed wooden flooring and bespoke seating to each window and opens into a rear area incorporating an inner hall, two smaller further rooms, a useful cloakroom, stairs down to a spacious cellar, suitable for a variety of uses, and a door to a private rear courtyard. Stairs rise from the inner hall to the first floor which provides a front aspect parquet-floored reception room with feature fireplace, a kitchen fitted with a range of wall and base units and with space for integrated appliances and two bedrooms, one currently used as a dining room. The property’s three remaining bedrooms can be found on the second floor, together with a spacious family bathroom.

Having plenty of kerb appeal, the shop is accessed from the pavement through inset double central doors. The rear of the shop and the inner hall with stairs rising to the maisonette is accessible through a private walled external courtyard, suitable for a variety of uses.

Located roughly half-way between Maidstone and Hastings, the historic and picturesque Weald town of Cranbrook is one of the most picturesque small towns in the Weald. Its skyline dominated by a 19th century windmill and a fine early stone church, the town offers a wide range of day-to-day amenities including an eclectic mix of shops, cafés, restaurants, boutiques, services, sports and leisure facilities and primary and secondary schooling including the renowned Cranbrook School. More extensive shopping, sport and leisure facilities can be found in Tenterden, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Hastings. Local leisure and sporting facilities include golf clubs at Dale Hill and Rye, sailing and fishing at Bewl Water and riding, walking, mountain biking, climbing and an activity centre in Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest. Communications links are excellent: the A21 provides excellent links to the M25, M20 and motorway network and the mainline station at nearby Staplehurst offers trains to London Bridge, Waterloo, Charing Cross and Cannon Street; a high speed train from Ashford reaches London St Pancreas International.