Semi-detached house for sale in The Street, Sissinghurst, Cranbrook TN17

A pretty garden gate leads you through a brick paved entrance and the front garden with bright purple alliums, rose bushes and a red creeping rose growing over the brick porch. To the left of the entrance hallway is the large open plan living room with its woodburner. This leads onto a dining area and the kitchen. The fitted kitchen boasts light granite worktop and breakfast bar built in a u-shape making the most of the light afforded by the velux windows above and the back windows, looking out onto the private courtyard. The later extension of the kitchen and its fully fitted modern kitchen with Villeroy and Both ceramic sink and Quooker tap amongst many other sleek modern touches, gives this traditional cottage the space and light and comfort suited for modern living.

The stairs in the entrance lead up to the 1st floor where there is the main bedroom to the rear with its bespoke fitted oak wardrobes. In the middle of this floor is the family bathroom with its panelled bath, a central mixer tap and hand held shower attachment, built in shower controls with an over head rain shower and glass shower screen. Currently used as the home office the last room on this floor, with views to the front of the cottage could also be used as a nursery.
Climbing the stairs to the last floor is the 2nd bedroom with built in oak cupboards and shelving echoing those (by the same master carpenter) found in the Master Bedroom on the 1st floor.

The courtyard, to the rear of the kitchen has plenty of space for a table and chairs, ideal for making the most of outside living and entertaining. There is a side double gate which leads onto the side path. Rising a few steps takes you into the glazed patio doors of the outbuilding. The first room has been converted into a smart living room/ bedroom with timber flooring with its underfloor heating throughout. To the side of this room is a large bathroom with a roll top, claw-footed bath WC and sink. A door to the rear leads directly into the garage which has plenty of storage shelves built in. This also houses the washing room and dryer and an electric door that gives access along the side path of the house. The garage has ample off road secure parking fro a mini countryman sized car.

Sissinghurst village is infused with the history of nearby Sissinghurst castle, home originally to writer and poet Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson and now a poplar National Trust site. Bluebell cottage is situated in the heart of rich Kentish landscape - there are beautiful woods, streams and farmland in which to walk nearby. Sissinghurst is a small village with in the county of Kent - ‘the Garden of England’ situated with Cranbrook to the south, Goudhurst to the west, Tenterden to the east and Staplehurst to the north.