Sweet Bay Crescent, Ashford, TN23 3PQ

*** PLEASE QUOTE REF: SD1012 when enquiring.   Imagine a beautiful family home, a modern village lifestyle with playparks and coffee shops just a short walk away, but also the peace and tranquillity of life in the country..... well, this house offers a seamless blend of all three.  With a 900 acre country house estate literally on the other side of the fence - a choice of independent shops, schools, play parks pub, and a local coop  within a 15 minute walk, this house offers the best of both worlds.  And did I also mention Waitrose is just a stroll away?  

This property can be found (if you know where to look) just off Sweet Bay Crescent which winds its way around the periphery of Ashford’s Godinton Park Development.  It's a much loved and well established collection of impressive, almost dolls house like properties.  But then stemming off the crescent are the occasional private driveways leading to tucked away properties, off the beaten track, that you’d never know were there.  This is one of those.  And it really is tucked away.  Right in the corner, nestled  amongst its similarly delightful neighbours, and the very beautiful Godinton House Country Park Estate.  Pulling up on the driveway of this house is a joy.  Its white rendered walls, Georgian style windows, and L-shaped frontage with its central entrance, extend a smart and warm welcome on arrival! 

Inside…..the delight continues almost around every corner, but it’s each rooms’ connection with the outside spaces that I love about this house.  The current owners have used every opportunity to bring the outside in. The gardens wrap their way around the house, and thoughtful landscaping makes them feel like a simple extension to the main living spaces.   With bi-fold doors front and back, the ground floor of this property seamlessly connects with its surroundings.  It literally does bring the outside - in.  Whether it’s coffee in the sunshine on the deck off the lounge, or a garden full of guests off the kitchen/dining room at the back of the house, or even a hot tub full of bubbles under a canopy of trees at the side of the house, this property’s external spaces are as celebrated and functional as its internal ones. 

As you step in through the front door, you’re naturally drawn towards the KITCHEN at the back of the house.  The current owners have opened up the space so it extends into the dining room and out through bifold doors to the landscaped gardens beyond.  A peninsular kitchen breakfast bar with built in wine fridge provides sociable seating and suggests there's never a lonely chef in this household!  The kitchen is well equipped with a full range of wall and base units, plenty of work space and a hearty range cooker stands almost centre stage.  The 1.5 bowl sink unit sits comfortably under the kitchen window which provides wonderfully distracting views of the back garden.  

The OPEN PLAN DINING AREA is cleverly set out across the other side of the room, directly opposite the expanse of bifold doors.  This is dinner with a view!  Flooded with natural light, this is a fabulously bright, open plan space, cosy enough for two but big enough for eight.   And of course on sunshiny days, it naturally invites you to throw open those doors and eat semi-alfresco style! 

If we wander back out into the hallway, our next visual delight is the LOUNGE.  And yet again, the focus of this room is beyond its four walls.  A further set of almost wall-to-wall bifold doors fills this room with inescapable views of the garden.  This lounge is framed by a decked seating area beyond, which wraps around both external walls and is raised flush to floor level.  The current owners have an outdoor, lounge-style seating area set up on the decking with occasional tables.  When the Lounge bi-folds are fully open and the sun is shining in, it feels as if the room simply extends out into the garden and beyond.  It’s fabulous.  With a houseful of guests, retiring to the Lounge presents indoor or outdoor seating options, both equally connected as one space.  

Also on the ground floor is a light bright OFFICE OR PLAYROOM with natural light streaming in through windows at the front of the house.  And a useful contemporary styled DOWNSTAIRS W/C.  

And if we head upstairs, custom glass panels and polished chrome handrails wrap their way around the stairwell in place of traditional balustrading, accentuating the natural light that streams in through the window on the landing.  Oak panelled doors lead to all 4 double bedrooms and the family bathroom on the first floor.  But it's the MASTER BEDROOM that steals the show up here.  You're immediately greeted by three stunning windows on the facing wall with a 3/4 length Palladian feature window front and centre.   With the sun streaming through, the light in here is spectacular, with views directly over the decking and rear gardens.  It's a super pretty room.  A pair of fitted double wardrobes positioned facing each other form a dressing area/linking walkway through to the ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM.  It's a very good size room and is fully tiled with a marble effect finish, and contrasting mosaic tiles define the corner quadrant shower enclosure.  A useful vanity unit with ceramic bowl sink above and contemporary chrome fittings throughout.

The three further BEDROOMS are all light bright spaces, two are comfortable doubles with fitted wardrobes and bedroom 4 is a very generous single.  The two bedrooms at the back of the house command beautiful views over the rear gardens and the woodlands that flank the edges of Godinton House Country Park.   

The FAMILY BATHROOM is equally well fitted with a contemporary white bathroom suite and modern chrome fittings.  The room is fully tiled with wall to wall bath with an overhead shower and fitted screen  Good storage is provided via the fitted vanity unit with integrated hand washbasin.   

As we wander back downstairs let's head OUTSIDE where this house really sets itself apart.  Starting from the front of the property, there is a shared driveway and ample parking (with private parking owned by the property to accommodate up to 6 cars) plus parking for two cars directly in front of the DOUBLE GARAGE.  There's also an EV electric charger conveniently located to the side of the garage doors.  Side access leads around to the back of the property and directly into the rear garden which is mainly laid to lawn.  Well stocked beds frame the boundary fence and a paved seating area in the top corner of the garden provides a charming sociable spot on sunny days.  The house sits to the side of its plot which makes for a wide and wonderfully secluded area running from the front to the back of the house and beyond.  The current owners have cleverly capitalised on the seclusion of this section of the gardens and filled it with additional seating, BBQ area and a fabulous hot tub!  This boundary backs onto Godinton House Country Park and is flanked with a canopy of trees providing perfect privacy for regular dips in the bubbling tub!!  (Hot tub can be included in the sale by separate negotiation.)   Moving around to the the front of the house, these gardens enjoy mature hedging which provides plenty of privacy from neighbouring properties.  A generous raised decking area stemming directly off the Lounge with bifold doors makes this another wonderfully sociable outdoor/indoor space, and all underneath a magnificent Magnolia tree umbrella.

This truly is a very special house in a fabulous spot.  Surrounded by it's own well thought out landscaped gardens which compliment its downstairs layout perfectly, and a 900 acre country house estate as its backdrop, it will be tough to beat.  And when you also factor in all the local facilities and amenities that are literally a short walk away....two primary schools, local shops, play parks and nature reserves, community centre, Waitrose, and two coffee shops - I really think it literally has everything!   *** PLEASE QUOTE REF: SD1012 when enquiring.