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"Holly Bank is a stylish detached home that offers more than 2 250 sq ft of attractive accommodation arranged over two light filled floors. There are three comfortable, flexible ground floor reception rooms which includes the dual aspect sitting room, which has an open fireplace and southwest facing French doors opening onto the rear garden. There is a triple aspect dining room of similar proportions to the sitting room, also with French doors opening onto the terrace area, as well as a study, providing private space for home working. The well equipped kitchen breakfast room is situated towards the front of the ground floor and features terracotta tiled flooring, wooden units to base and wall level and an Everhot range cooker. The large adjoining utility room provides useful further space for home storage and appliances.

Upstairs there are four well proportioned double bedrooms, three of which benefit from extensive southwest facing views across the beautiful surrounding landscape, including the principal bedroom with its built in storage and dressing area. Two of the bedrooms have their own washbasins, while the first floor also has a family bathroom and a shower room. A further shower room and a cloakroom can be found on the ground level.

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The house is set in a stunning position, overlooking the River Medway and with views across the undulating landscape and towards Penshurst village. At the entrance, timber gates open onto the driveway, where there is parking for several vehicles and access to the detached garage for further parking. The garage has mezzanine storage, a log store to the side and further temperature controlled storage at the rear. The garden is mostly to the rear and benefits from a sunny southwest facing aspect and a peaceful setting with no neighbouring properties. The garden is bordered by established hedgerows on all sides and features an area of timber decking immediately at the back of the house, accessed via the sitting room and dining room, part of which is shaded by an electric awning and a wooden vine clad pergola.

There is also an ornamental pond, a patio area and a well maintained lawn, bordered by beds filled with various shrubs and flowering perennials. To the side there is a vegetable garden with a shed and a greenhouse, as well as a high quality summer house heated and with power, suitable for use as a home office with its own patio, in a secluded position at the end of the plot with magnificent uninterrupted views.

The idyllic village of Penshurst, which features a primary school, doctor s surgery, post office and village shop, three pubs and two caf s, as well as magnificent mediaeval Penshurst Place, is situated in a superb position close to the bustling commuter towns of Tonbridge, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells, and surrounded by beautiful rolling Kent countryside, with the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on its doorstep.

Excellent schools are within easy reach, including private and grammar. Tonbridge has a bustling High Street with a good selection of shops, including a Waitrose, plus several excellent independent caf s and restaurants. The town also has good leisure facilities, with a swimming pool and leisure centre, and several golf courses, including Poult Wood and Nizels Golf and Country Club.

Tonbridge and Hildenborough s mainline stations offer efficient commuter services to London Bridge from 31 minutes , London Cannon Street from 41 minutes , Waterloo East and Charing Cross from 41 minutes . Penshurst also has a station outside the village providing local rail services, while the M25 is within easy reach, via the A21 timings are from Hildenborough Station, 10 minutes drive away ."