luxury villa for sale Tonbridge, United Kingdom

This has been a wonderful and happy family home for some 63 years and it is only for health reasons that it is now being sold. Although the house needs modernising it is in a great location, was solidly built, has delightful original features and large rooms as well as being on a private road so is very safe for children and pets, and is just waiting for new owners to make it their own.We are only half a mile from the charming village of Hadlow, which is in a Conservation area and includes many attractive period properties such as the Hadlow Tower, a variety of shops, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, church, library and a medical centre. For the more energetic there are cricket and bowls clubs as well as a good primary school and the renowned Hadlow College of Agriculture and Horticulture that includes the Broadview Gardens complex where you can enjoy wandering around 10 acres of grounds.It is not far from the bustling market town of Tonbridge that lies alongside the River Medway and has its origins in the 10th century with the castle being built in the 11th century. Most of the shops can be found in the high street and include clothes shops, hair and beauty salons, banks, bakers, butchers and a fishmongers along with plenty of bars and restaurants with more retail outlets on the outskirts of the town. There are three medical centres in the town, four dental and three veterinary practices. The mainline station is also the junction for the Hastings and Redhill lines with trains taking around 40 minutes to various London stations.The town includes a large country park as well as Carroty Wood, an outdoor activity centre and a charming oast house that has been converted into a theatre. There are excellent educational facilities with a number of primary schools, several grammar and comprehensive schools with specialist status including performing arts, maths and ICT, music and sports. There is also the West Kent College of further education and a small University of Kent campus as well as the famous independent Tonbridge School founded in 1553. This provides a 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 has football, rugby, tennis and cricket clubs. For golfing enthusiasts there are numerous golf clubs and courses within a radius of nine miles around Hadlow including the local Poult Wood public golf centre.