For Sale2 Bedroom Apartment in North Frith Park, Hadlow, Tonbridge, TN11 9QW£650,000

We fell in love with the park, the mansion and the apartment the minute we saw them some 20 years ago. We love being able to sit on our roof terrace and revel in the views or wander around the park every day. Although the park is communal there are always plenty of places to go for a private read or to find a spot to enjoy a picnic with friends and family. In recent years we have replaced the kitchen and bathrooms so the apartment has all the delights of period character but with all the advantages of modern day living. We are not far from Shipbourne with its historic church and a charming village hall at the end of a Kentish Hall House as well as tennis courts, a good primary school, an excellent weekly farmer’s market and the well-known Chaser Inn and restaurant. While the nearby historic village of Hadlow also features period buildings including the famous Hadlow Tower or ‘May’s Folly’. This Grade 1* listed building stands 175 ft high and is the tallest such Roman Gothic building in the UK and its restoration won the Angel Award. There is a good primary school in the village while the Hadlow College of Agriculture and Horticulture is well-known and includes the Broadview Gardens where you can enjoy wandering around 10 acres of grounds. The village has a variety of shops, a pub, hairdresser and a church. There is also a library and a medical centre as well as cricket and bowls clubs and the village hall where a variety of activities take place to suit all ages. It is only about three miles to Tonbridge where you will find a variety of independent shops, hair and beauty salons, bars and restaurants with additional retail outlets on the outskirts of the town while trains from Tonbridge station can whisk you to London in just over half an hour. There are excellent educational facilities with a number of primary schools including Slade Primary rated Outstanding by Ofsted, several Outstanding grammar schools including the high achieving The Judd for boys and Tonbridge Grammar School for girls with specialist status schools including performing arts, maths and ICT, music and sports. There is also Somerhill prep school, the independent Kent College, Hilden Grange Prep School as the famous independent Tonbridge School founded in 1553. This provides the thriving EM Forster theatre and leisure club with extremely good facilities available to external club members including a swimming pool, gymnasium, athletics track and tennis courts while the town itself includes golf, football, rugby, tennis and cricket clubs.