For Sale5 Bedroom Detached House in Ware Street, Maidstone, ME14 4PG£900,000

The home has been sensitively renovated to provide modern comforts whilst retaining an abundance of period features. Grounds wrap around the house giving plenty of space for outdoor dining and activities, gardening/growing vegetables and parking. Nestled in an elevated and generous plot, Mount Pleasant offers a sense of grandeur and seclusion whilst also being just a few minutes walk from the station, village centre and sought after primary/infant schools. The station offers mainline trains to London Victoria and London Bridge and the village centre has renowned pubs and restaurants and a butchers/bakers/delicatessen situated around a charming village green. It is believed that the excavated platform on which the house sits today is the site of the Manor of Ware; local tradition has the house referred to as the “old manor”. A plaque on the front of the house commemorates the cricketer Alfred Mynn (1807-1861) who lived in Mount Pleasant and is featured on the Bearsted village sign. He is said to have been the most iconic cricketer until the arrival of WG Grace. He played a role in the introduction of overarm bowling and is thought to have introduced the use of pads following a leg injury. Mynn was a giant of man at six foot two and 21 stone and was known as the Lion of Kent. After Mynn, the house became the home of Reverend Twopeny, curate at St Mary’s, Thurnham and member of Kent County Cricket club. Twopeny was a lover of music and extended the lounge to hold choir practice. Grace Dibble, the Edwardian travel writer, also lived in Mount Pleasant and provides an affectionate insight into the house in her memoirs. Grace was an early student at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls before going on to study Geography at Homerton College, Cambridge; her name is first on the list of prizewinners in the school’s reception and a price is still awarded in her name today.