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Guide Price£1,395,000

Smarden, Smarden, Kent, TN27

Land size
2.4 acres
Bedrooms
5
Bathrooms
3

Key Features

  • Stunning Grade II Listed Family Home
  • Entrance Hall, Cloakroom
  • Sitting Room, Study
  • Kitchen/Dining Room, Utility Room
  • Principal Bedroom, Ensuite
  • Three Further Double Bedrooms
  • Family Bathroom
  • Grounds Approx. 2.4 Acres, Pond
  • Swimming Pool, Pool House, Garden Store
  • Double Garage with Ensuite Room Over

Description

SMARDEN

This stunning Grade II Listed country home provides comfortable living, fusing modern appliances with character features aplenty, from inglenook fireplaces to exposed beams. Sitting in well-kept mature grounds of approximately 2.4 acres, the property occupies a location within a short walk of the amenities, particularly the village shop and post office in the much sought after village of Smarden. Within the grounds there is a double garage with Ensuite bedroom above, a loggia and a swimming pool with accompanying pool house and garden store.

Extant planning exists for a ground floor extension, 21/01006/AS (Listed Building Consent) and 21/01005/AS (Planning Permission).

Ashford Borough Council - Council Tax Band G

EPC Rating: n/a

The village of Smarden offers local facilities including a church, village hall, primary school, village shop/post office, butchers, two public houses, a tennis court, a cricket club and a recreation ground.

As well as the local school there are a variety of state and public schools available in the area most of which have recently received 'excellent' in Offsted inspections and include Dulwich School, Sutton Valence, Bethany, Benenden as well as grammar schools in Maidstone and Ashford. Many of the schools can be accessed via school buses from Headcorn.

Main line stations are available at Pluckley some 5 minutes drive, Headcorn 10 minutes and Ashford International with the fast link to London some 20 minutes drive.

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
G
Date Posted
2026-05-29

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 1,853 Homes with Land listings in South East England (1+ acres).

This Property£581,250 / acre
Homes with Land Average (1+ acres) £303,627 / acre
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Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Rights & Restrictions

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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
Parking Available
Garden
Garden

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

80 Mbps

Superfast

Suitable for

  • HD streaming
  • Video calls
  • Web & social

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Smarden Primary School268 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    172
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Bethersden Primary School3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    117
    Type
    Community school
  • Pluckley Church of England Primary School3 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    82
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Egerton Church of England Primary School3.2 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    197
    Type
    Voluntary controlled school
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Headcorn Primary School3.3 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    401
    Type
    Community school

Secondary

  • Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre5.2 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,772
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Chilmington Green School5.6 milesOfsted report card · May 2026
    Ages
    11 to 19
    Pupils
    449
    Type
    Free schools
  • The Lenham School6 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    820
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • The John Wallis Church of England Academy7.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 19
    Pupils
    1,650
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Highworth Grammar School7.4 milesOfsted: Outstanding *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,553
    Type
    Academy converter
    Gender
    Girls

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Sainsburys Headcorn Local, Headcorn3.2 miles
Morrisons Daily Lenham Honywood Road, Lenham5.8 miles
Waitrose Tenterden, Tenterden5.9 miles

GP surgery

Charing Surgery5.8 miles

Pharmacy

Headcorn Pharmacy2.9 miles

Hospital

Benenden Hospital5.7 miles

Green space

Play Space149 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Pluckley Rail Station2.4 miles

Nearest bus stop

Glebe Close206 metres

Typical drive times

Ashford17 min · 10 miles
Faversham28 min · 18 miles
Maidstone26 min · 18 miles
Tenterden14 min · 8.8 miles
Canterbury (city)36 min · 23 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

A 1 in 100 to 1 in 1000 chance each yearMedium to low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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