Kingsdown With Lynsted, Kent

Spyholm is an impressive family home with four bedrooms and impeccable décor throughout. The property provides flexible reception rooms with elegant, classic styling, while the large integrated garage and workshop both provide the potential for extension, subject to any necessary consents.

The welcoming reception hall with its wooden flooring, panelled walls, south-facing bay window, and log burner, is more than an entrance hall and provides an inviting sitting area. To either end of the hall, sliding double doors open to both a formal, part-panelled dining room and bright double aspect sitting room, the latter of which has a bay window at the front and French doors opening to the garden at the rear, as well as a corner wood-burning stove.

A further set of double doors lead from the sitting room to a beautiful conservatory, which has a west-facing aspect, welcoming sunlight throughout the afternoon and into the summer evenings.

Towards the rear of the ground floor, the breakfast room provides further relaxed, everyday living space overlooking the garden and connected to the kitchen in a semi open-plan layout. There is space for a dining table and a seating area, while the kitchen is fitted with Shaker-style units, wooden worktops, a butler sink and a range cooker.

A double bedroom with an en suite shower room is located on the ground floor, which is ideal for use as a guest bedroom or a home study. Upstairs there are a further three well-presented bedrooms, including the generous principal bedroom, which benefits from built-in wardrobes, an en suite bathroom with an over-bath shower and a door leading to a splendid roof terrace. The first floor also has a large family bathroom with floor-to-ceiling tiling, a bath, separate shower unit and twin washbasins.

At the entrance to the home, security gates open to a gravel driveway, where there is plenty of parking space and access to the integrated garages and workshop space. Altogether, the garages comprise almost 750 square feet of floor space, presenting the possibility for conversion into an annexe or further ground-floor living space, subject to any necessary consents.

The garden at the front of the house has a south-facing lawn, bordered by tall trees and hedgerows, while at the side there is a sunny terrace for al fresco dining. The rear garden provides further patio space, with a well-maintained, level lawn beyond. Post and rail fencing and a five-bar gate separate the lawn from a grassy meadow at the rear, which provides further peaceful space in which to relax.

Spyholm is set in the parish of Kingsdown with Lynsted, close to the larger village of Teynham and just four miles from Sittingbourne town centre. Teynham has a local shop, a village pub and a community centre, as well as a primary school. There is a primary school and pub in the village of Lynsted, approximately a mile away, with a further primary school found in nearby Rodmersham (the Ofsted Outstanding-rated Rodmersham School). Sittingbourne and Faversham offer a choice of shops, supermarkets, schools and other amenities and leisure facilities.

Sittingbourne station provides services to London Victoria, Cannon Street and St Pancras International, with each taking approximately an hour. The cathedral city of Canterbury provides a further choice of shops and leisure facilities. The area is well connected by road, with the M2 approximately seven miles away. The area has good access to Continental Europe via Eurotunnel and the Port of Dover.

For leisure, there is a health, fitness and squash club in Rodmersham, superb walking cycling and riding routes in the surrounding countryside, and sailing on the Swale, with the nearest marina being at Conyer.