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£1,400,000

Mount Hall Farm, Benenden, Cranbrook, Kent

Mount Hall Farm Stepneyford Lane, Benenden, Cranbrook, TN17 4BW

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KEY FEATURES

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AT A GLANCE

A rare residential development opportunity available as a whole or in 3 Lots to include a 16th Century Listed Farmhouse, a Listed Barn and Oast house and an Agricultural Barn. The barns have positive Pre-application planning advice for residential conversion. In all approx. 6.07 acres

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DESCRIPTION

The property is a small residential complex situated at Mount Le Hoe, just off Stepneyford Lane, situated between the villages of Benenden and Rolvenden in the Cranbrook school catchment area. Staplehurst mainline railway station, with connections to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street is approximately 10 miles to the north.

The house at Mounthall Farm dates from the sixteenth-century (or earlier). Formerly known as 'Mudhall Farm,' its original name is recorded on a 1777 map of Benenden. This part of the Kentish High Weald is designated Natural Landscape area and comprises a belt of hilly and partly wooded countryside, with the streams and ghylls nearby running south to the River Rother.

The property is offered for sale as a whole or in 3 lots.

Lot 1 – Mount Hall Farmhouse
This is a 4-bedroom 16th century timber frame Grade II listed dwelling, with a partly jetted first floor. The house is externally clad in weatherboard and part rendered under pitched tiled roofs. The farmhouse has traditional features such as a period oak staircase and a bressummer beam fireplace.

Externally there is a good sized Garden and a paddock to the rear of the farmhouse and on the western side there is a woodshed of timber framed construction under a tiled roof and a cart lodge with a stable to one end, also timber framed construction under a tiled roof.

Access is directly to the lane through a five bar entrance gate leading to a tarmac drive over which there are access rights shared with the Oast.

Lot 1 extends to approximately 1.40 acres.

Lot 2 – Mount Hall Farm Barn & Oast
This historic Grade II listed building is located to the west of the farmhouse and comprises a period Kent Barn with attached single kiln square Oast house.

In April 2006 planning permission was obtained to convert the Oast house only into a two bedroom dwelling. Planning permission was renewed in February 2009, but work was never started and the planning consent lapsed.
The vendor has submitted pre-application advice for the conversion of the barn and the Oast into a five bedroom residential property and copies are available together with the proposed plans on request.

Lot 2 extends to approximately 1.30 acres

Lot 3 – Farm Building & Land
This steel frame agricultural building has historically been used for hay and straw storage and cattle yarding.

The vendor has applied for pre-application advice for conversion into a residential four bedroom detached dwelling and further details, including copies of the advice from Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and the proposed drawings are available on request.

The pastureland to the north of the barn extends to approximately 3 acres.

Lot 3 extends to approximately 3.37 acres.

Please see the Property Particulars for further information on maps & plans, floor plans, boundaries, access, planning etc.

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