For Sale5 Bedroom Detached House in Salmans Lane, Penshurst, Tunbridge Wells, TN11 8DJ£2,000,000

We love this beautiful and characterful home and the wonderful grounds with far-reaching countryside views wherever you look. The very attractive and flexible accommodation is a really appealing factor and great for family life and for entertaining, while the stables, paddocks and manege were ideal for our family horses and ponies. However we are now starting a new chapter in our lives and trust that new owners will enjoy the place as much as we have. Although we are surrounded by countryside, we are not isolated as it is only a mile or so to Penshurst. Steeped in history the village grew up around the famous 14th century Penshurst Place, the ancestral estate of the Sidney family including the current Viscount De L’isle. The village lies within the High Weald of Kent in an Area of Outstanding Beauty and the village itself is in a conservation area and includes many Tudor and Victorian buildings. There is a station with trains to London Bridge taking less than an hour, the Forge stores and post office for daily essentials as well as a weekly farmers’ market, gift shop and restaurant, a good primary school and a doctor’s surgery. There is also one of the oldest cricket clubs in the country and The Leicester Arms Hotel, while nearby is the excellent Spotted Dog gastropub and the cosy Bottle House Inn. We are virtually equidistant between Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge so are really spoilt for choice when it comes restaurants, bars and independent shops as well as high street stores and schools. There are good local primary schools in Fordcombe and Chiddingstone as well as Penshurst, Outstanding academies and grammar schools in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells and excellent independent schools in the area such as the famous Tonbridge school founded in 1553 with its leisure club and swimming pool available to the public. There is also the West Kent College of further education and a small University of Kent campus. For sporting enthusiasts there are golf courses in Tunbridge Wells, Hever Castle and Nizels. While there is boating and angling on the Rivers Medway and Eden and the surrounding lakes as well as rugby, football, tennis, croquet and bowls clubs in the nearby towns.