High StreetYalding, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 6HU

The Elms is a superb Victorian family home of immense character and charm, believed to date from the 1850s with later additions, providing well-appointed and stylishly presented accommodation principally arranged over two floors, ideal for both family living and formal entertaining. Salient points include a bespoke kitchen, modern bathroom suites, high ceilings, recessed lighting, dado and picture rails, detailed cornicing, window shutters, panelling, feature fireplaces and sash windows. Also of note are the extensive parkland grounds with river frontage, wildflower meadow and paddocks, outbuildings and stabling, together with the indoor pool and gym complex and tennis court. Many of the rooms enjoy beautiful southerly views over its own parkland. The house is not listed.

The impressive reception rooms comprise a double aspect sitting room, family room with doors opening to the gym, and a dining room and drawing room both with feature fireplaces and doors opening to the ornate veranda and croquet lawn.

The bespoke kitchen/breakfast room measures some 32 ft and is fitted with a comprehensive range of wall and base units with Sub Zero Wolf and Miele integral appliances and a matching granite island unit incorporating a breakfast bar. The breakfast room is currently arranged as a sitting area around the ornate fireplace with double sided wood burning stove which is also accessed from the family room. The utility/laundry room (with laundry chute from the first floor) provides additional storage and space for appliances.

The impressive gym complex can be accessed via the family room and kitchen/breakfast room and houses a sauna with bi-fold doors opening to the terrace with lawn and brick built outdoor kitchen area which is also accessed directly from the kitchen/breakfast room.

The swimming pool adjoins and enjoys a southerly aspect with two sets of doors opening to the terrace and also to the columned arbour terrace.

There are two studies, one with fitted cabinets, two cloakrooms, and a storage and plant room complete the ground floor. An extensive cellar is principally divided into five chambers, currently arranged as a wine store, games room with pool table, music room and two store rooms.

From the reception hall an elegant staircase ascends to the first floor landing with a palladian style window. The outstanding principal suite enjoys the most delightful views over the parkland. The suite is some 37 ft and is entered through double doors. It includes a butler's pantry, an impressive bathroom with jacuzzi bath, contemporary style chrome fittings, double basins, recessed mirrored cabinets, tumbled marble tiles and a 'wet room' style shower with spa jets. The adjacent dressing room features a comprehensive range of fitted wardrobes.

There are five further bedrooms, all with fitted wardrobes. The three additional bath/shower rooms have all been refurbished and feature white suites with chrome fittings. The central family bathroom has a jacuzzi bathtub.

Two linen cupboards and a laundry chute complete the accommodation.

The Elms is a most elegant and impressive village house situated in the heart of the picturesque village. It commands a secluded position and is approached from the road by its private driveway leading to a further entrance flanked by decorative brick pillars and an electronically operated wrought iron gated entrance that gives access to a sweeping drive culminating in a large parking and turning area in front of the house and detached brick double garage. A shingle driveway continues to the side of the house culminating at the outbuildings, additional garaging and stabling.

The gently elevated setting allows far reaching views over its own parkland and grounds. The extensive gardens and grounds are a real feature of the property with manicured lawns surrounding the curtilage of the house and extending out to parkland and pasture interspersed with established specimen trees and swathes of woodland, with a meandering river running along the south westerly boundary.

A columned arbour with a timber frame over is adorned with established clematis and provides a delightful walkway abutting the swimming pool and leading to a seating area flanked with flowerbeds. Within the walled gardens is a floodlit tennis court and gates lead to the outbuildings which comprise additional garaging, a former piggery, work shop, field shelter, tack room and 4 stables.

Within additional walled gardens to the rear of the house is a further lawn and terrace with a brick built outdoor kitchen, providing an ideal area for al fresco entertaining.

The ornate veranda to the side of the property, adorned with established wisteria, also provides a picturesque spot for al fresco entertaining, with a formal area of garden and croquet lawn partly bound by mature clipped hedges which allow access through the parkland.

There is planning permission to demolish some of the outbuildings and replace with a new garage block and stables.

Further details can be found on the Maidstone Borough Council planning portal, Ref: 23/505677/FULL

'Demolition of existing double garage/workshop, piggery, triple garage and field shelter and erection of a single storey garage block and stables.'

The Elms is set within a Conservation Area in an elevated and prominent position in the centre of Yalding village with its village shop, post office, library, pubs, primary school, doctor’s surgery, railway station, restaurant and tea rooms.

Elms Lodge & Barn have a Right of Access at the bottom of the drive.

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