Hastingleigh

A period farmstead set in the Kent Downs National Landscape, with a four bedroom listed farmhouse and a range of traditional farm buildings.

DESCRIPTION & HISTORY
Kingsmill Down Farm was purchased by the family in the winter of 1920.

More recently the land has been entered into a Countryside Stewardship scheme which includes prescriptions to enhance arable land and pasture on the farm requiring the restoration and maintenance of species rich grassland which is a feature of the Wye Downs area. The House and Farmstead overlooks this valley landscape to the south towards the village of Brabourne and to the north, lies Elmstead and Hastingleigh Village and the church.

Since the Second World War the family farming partnership have employed traditional farming methods without significant capital expenditure, so the property offered by the Executors is a fine example of a traditional, unspoilt Kentish farmstead unit with a history going back over several hundred years.
The Grade II listed farmhouse has 4 bedrooms and requires considerable modernisation and expenditure. This occupies a location on the east side of the farmstead with views over the valley to the south.
Within the garden is an unusual South East ‘well head’ to a depth over 80 meters with a Donkey Wheel also included in the Grade II listing.

The farmyard is arranged between the Farmhouse and the adjacent lane and includes a 19th century barn, a traditional range of lodges, stables, pigsties and a two story granary joining the stack yard, with other outbuildings & barns.