Park Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 4SP

A beautifully presented terraced period house, conveniently located for the amenities of Tunbridge Wells, choice of schools, the station and Dunorlan Park.

Description

22 Park Street is an attractive, characterful terraced period house, with well-proportioned, light-filled accommodation, which is very well presented throughout.

The ground floor enjoys a sitting room to the front of the house with an attractive bay window. To the rear of the house the property has been extended to create an impressive and welcoming, open-plan kitchen/dining room. The modern fitted kitchen provides good storage, with base and wall units, plenty of preparation space, with integrated fridge freezer, dishwasher, with an integrated electric oven and electric hob. There is a useful understairs cupboard and a lobby provides space for further white goods and direct access onto the rear courtyard garden. The lobby also leads to the ground floor bathroom.

The first floor is home to three, light-filled bedrooms, there is a further shower room on this floor and access to the loft.

Outside: To the rear of the house there is a courtyard garden, recently landscaped with ease of maintenance and outdoor entertaining in mind. A pedestrian gate leads to a right of access over the path to the side of no. 24 back to Park Street.

Parking: Park Street is in Zone D. Residents are entitled to purchase two permits per household and visitors vouchers via TWBC.

Location

Tunbridge Wells is the only spa town in the Southeast of England, with elegant architecture and a variety of cultural, entertainment and shopping attractions, including the historic Pantiles, known for its charming Georgian colonnade, summer live music festivals, regular food and craft markets and Chalybeate Spring. There are two theatres locally at The Assembly Halls and Trinity Theatre, together with the civic centre, The Amelia Scott. The town offers an abundance of cafés and restaurants and a mixture of multiple national retailers and independent shops.

Park Street enjoys a highly convenient location within the town about 0.6 miles on foot of both the station and High Street. The High Street offers many restaurants including The Ivy and The Warren, and so many choices for delicious cakes, fresh bread and coffee; including Juliet's, Fine Grind, Gails and the Italian delicatessen Arte Bianca. Fresh fish and seafood is available at Sankey's fishmongers, with numerous shops and independent boutiques offering so much more.

Dunorlan Park with its beautifully landscaped parkland grounds, café, and six acre boating lake is approximately 0.3 miles on foot to the Bayhall Road entrance. There are cricket and tennis facilities at the Nevill grounds (1.3 miles) and the renowned Nevill Golf Club is approximately 1.8 miles away. The property is also very well placed for Grove Park and Calverley Park with their children’s outdoor play areas, with the Tunbridge Wells Common also nearby, with its network of criss-cross footpaths leading to local landmark Wellington Rocks and the Higher Common Ground cricket pitch offering a wealth of opportunities for walking and recreation. Much of the surrounding countryside is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and boasts several places of historic interest and attractive walks, including the famous Ashdown Forest together with sailing and fishing at Bewl Water near Wadhurst. The award-winning Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest is approximately 12.4 miles away and is now recognised as the most complete collection of conifers on one site anywhere in the world and offers further woodland walks, cycling, riding, and outdoor music concerts.

Schools: Notably the house is well placed for nearby Claremont Primary School (0.5 miles on foot) and within convenient reach of the boys’ and girls’ Grammars at senior level, including Skinners, TWGGS, TWGSB. The Skinners’ Kent Academy in Sandown Park and Beechwood Sacred Heart School are within 1.3 miles of the property and Bennett Memorial Diocesan and St Gregory’s secondaries are also found within the town. Preparatory schools in Tunbridge Wells include Rose Hill and The Mead, with Holmewood House just slightly further afield in Langton Green. To the north there are further Grammar Schools in Tonbridge, to include The Judd School, Tonbridge Grammar School, Weald of Kent Grammar School, with further Independent schools at Somerhill, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks.

Mainline rail and commuter coach: Tunbridge Wells station (approximately 0.6 miles on foot) has regular services to London Charing Cross (via London Bridge and Waterloo East) from 54 minutes and Cannon Street from 51 minutes. The Centaur Commuter Coach service also stops at Tunbridge Wells Station, together with other various stops located around Tunbridge Wells.

Communications: The nearby A21 links directly to London and to the M25 (junction 5) and thereby the national motorway network, Gatwick and Heathrow Airports and the Channel Tunnel terminus, together with easy access to the south coast to Hastings and Eastbourne. All distances are approximate.

Square Footage: 953 sq ft

Directions

Postcode: TN2 4SP.

Additional Info

Local Authority: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council.

Services: Mains Water, Drainage, Gas and Electricity.