Boars Head Road, Boars Head, Crowborough, East Sussex, TN6

A beautifully presented and sizeable family home with views over neighbouring countryside, in this highly regarded hamlet, well-placed for both Tunbridge Wells and Crowborough.

Description

Having been significantly extended and updated under our clients' ownership, Foxlea is now a very light, spacious and generously proportioned family home, with a flexible and well-balanced layout that can be configured to suit individual needs, offering plenty of space for family and guests.

A generous reception hall leads to the stylish kitchen/breakfast room with attractive wall and base cabinetry providing good storage, with a range of integrated appliances. The central island with a striking granite worktop, offers further storage and preparation space with room for a good-sized table and chairs for more informal dining. The kitchen/breakfast room opens onto the impressive oak-framed garden room, creating a highly sociable layout, with two sets of French doors opening to the terrace and gardens beyond, bringing the outside, inside. A utility room adjoins the kitchen with direct access to the gardens.

A large, welcoming, front-to-back and triple aspect sitting room is ideal for more formal entertaining with a feature fireplace with working log burner and French doors overlooking and opening onto the gardens. The dining room also enjoys the view over and direct access onto the terrace and gardens beyond and a separate good-sized fitted study is ideal for today's working from home needs.

The ground floor is completed with a fifth double bedroom and a ground floor shower room.

The first floor is home to the impressive, large, triple aspect principal bedroom, which benefits from several fitted wardrobes, plenty of room for further furniture and a well-appointed en suite shower room. There are three further bedrooms on this floor, one with a mezzanine feature, together with a family bathroom. There is also a first floor sitting room/tv snug, enclosed with frameless glass walls and door allowing the first floor to be flooded with natural light through the feature window to the front of the house.

Outside: Sat comfortably in its plot Foxlea enjoys generous and established gardens to the rear, predominantly laid to lawn with shrubs and planting providing interest and colour. There are two large paved terraces, providing wonderful areas from which to entertain and take in the views over the garden and neighbouring countryside. There is also a detached garden studio, perfect for any number of uses, such as a home office or gym.

Foxlea is comfortably set back from the road, in a total plot of approximately 0.4 acres, approached over a private driveway providing parking for numerous vehicles, with a detached two-bay car port with EV charging point.

Location

Situated within the High Weald National Landscape, Foxlea enjoys a tucked away position on the rural fringe of this little hamlet, which lies between Eridge and Crowborough just south of Tunbridge Wells, with lovely rural walks nearby. Boars Head has a friendly 17th Century pub that serves food and offers a good selection of real ales. There is also a petrol station on the main road with a small shop. Popular pub The Huntsman at Eridge is 1.4 miles away, whilst Boards Head Golf Course is only a stones throw away.

Foxlea is conveniently located within approximately 1.8 miles of Crowborough town centre. Crowborough enjoys a good selection of supermarkets, including Waitrose, Lidl and Morrisons,there is a good selection of cafés, restaurants, Boots chemist, hairdressers and barbers, pubs and variety of independent shops; there is good choice of primary schools in Crowborough and The Beacon Academy at secondary level. The town benefits from a Leisure Centre and private golf at The Beacon Golf Course.

The surrounding countryside includes the historic Ashdown Forest known the world over as the home of 'Winnie the Pooh’ and one of the largest free public spaces in the South East. This ancient area of open heathland is the highest sandy ridge-top in the High Weald National Landscape.

Tunbridge Wells (approximately 5.8 miles) offers a far more comprehensive range of recreational and entertainment facilities with a wide variety of restaurants, cafés, bars, cinema (at Knights Park) and two theatres and mainline station.

Additional Schools: Preparatory schools include Holmewood House in Langton Green, Skippers Hill in Five Ashes, Cumnor House in Danehill and co-ed senior options in Sevenoaks, Eastbourne, Upper Dicker (Bedes) and Brighton, as well as Tonbridge for boys and Mayfield School for girls.

Mainline rail services: Eridge station (about 1.5 miles) has services to London Bridge with journey times from 53 minutes. Tunbridge Wells station (about 5.5 miles) has fast and frequent services to London Charing Cross with journey times from 52 minutes.

Square Footage: 2,883 sq ft


Acreage: 0.4 Acres

Directions

Postcode: TN6 3GR. From the A26 turn onto Boars Head Road, at the T-Junction turn left, the private driveway to Foxlea will be found just a short way along on the right hand side.

Additional Info

Services: Mains Electricity, Gas, Water & Private Drainage (sewage treatment plant)

Full Fibre 500 with BT Halo 3+

12x420W solar panels and a 5kW battery storage.

Council Tax - Improvement indicator noted