Bird In Hand Street, Groombridge

**Guide Price £2,000,000 - £2,250,000**
A stunning sympathetically modernised period 6 bedroom village home with 7.4 acres, excellent open plan kitchen/dining room, indoor swimming pool complex and detached annexe. Beautiful mature gardens and grounds.

Description
The Old Butchers is a superb Grade II* listed building of historic interest dating from middle 17th century. It forms part of a timeless scene amidst attractive period properties forming “Old Groombridge” and overlooking the Village Green to St Thomas’ Church. The property has been a much loved family home for the past 18 years. Sympathetically improved during that time it is now a fantastic home with a sensational open plan kitchen family space, ideal for entertaining. The property retains a wealth of period features with good ceiling heights, exposed ceiling timbers, leaded light casement and sash windows.

The property is arranged as follows:

• Dual aspect reception hall with exposed oak floorboards.
• Drawing room is dual aspect with a fine inglenook fireplace with brick surround.
• To the other side of the hall is the snug/dining room with impressive wood panelling, fireplace with herringbone brickwork and inset wood burning stove.
• Inner hall with stairs turning and rising, cloakroom and walk-in larder.
• Boot Room with butler sink and door to the garden. Stairs down to utility room in the cellar with a good range of units and wine racks, provision for washing machine and dishwasher, 1.5 bowl sink.
• Excellent kitchen/breakfast room with a vaulted ceiling, Harvey Jones kitchen, four oven gas Aga, Bosch induction hob, built-in microwave and oven, integrated dishwasher, butler sink, granite work surfaces continue to provide a breakfast bar. Window to rear and doors opening to the garden.
• Open plan to the kitchen is the superb dining room/library with under floor heating and sliding full width doors opening to the garden, built-in book and display shelving. Double doors to the drawing room.
• On the first floor is the principal bedroom with a window to the front with an aspect across the village green and en suite shower room.
• 2 further double bedrooms and a family bathroom with a freestanding roll top bath with telephone style shower attachment.
• Stairs turn and rise to the second floor landing where there are 3 further bedrooms one currently utilised as a study/home office and a shower room.

Annexe
There is a separate annexe with a vaulted sitting room, vaulted bedroom and en suite shower room. Stairs lead down from the sitting room to the kitchen with a good range of units, working surfaces, built-in oven and hob, sink and beyond this is a door through to a vaulted gym with doors to the garden.

Outside
Electric gates open to a large gravel driveway with a good turning and parking area. To the rear of the house there is a broad paved terrace, pergola, raised flower beds, level area of lawn, screening hedge to one side and mature trees.
Beyond this is a detached building with brick elevations under a pitched roof incorporating a workshop with swimming pool plant storage area and gas boiler. Beyond this are sweeping lawns, vegetable garden and garden store.

To the other side of the outbuilding is a gate opening to a raised paved terrace with pergola and lion head fountain. The lower paved terrace adjoins the detached swimming pool complex with timber lined walls. It is a full height building with bar area, space for gym, wet room and WC.

To the rear is a west facing decked seating area set behind a screening hedge with an attractive view to the property’s additional land.
To the south side of the swimming pool building is an enclosed “Secret Garden” gravel seating area with a central fountain feature. There is a also a studio/home office. The sweeping lawns continue with an array of mature shrubs and trees.

Beyond the formal lawn a gate opens out onto grounds comprising pasture mown with pathways and walks providing amenity, being an area extending to 5.8 acres.