Little Court is an exceptional six-bedroom family home overlooking Matfield's picturesque village green, beautifully renovated in 2021 and extending to 3,711 sq ft. Thoughtfully designed for modern family living, it offers elegant reception rooms, a stunning open-plan kitchen, six generous bedrooms and a south-west facing garden. Combining timeless character with contemporary finishes, this is a rare opportunity to own one of the village's finest homes.

You arrive on a gravel drive that already tells you something about what lies inside. The entrance hall sets the character early: wide pale stone tiles underfoot, warm timber beams crossing the ceiling, a painted staircase rising opposite with a natural oak handrail. Brass pendant lanterns. A church pew tucked beneath the stairs. It's the kind of hall that feels genuinely settled rather than composed for arrival, and it makes exactly the right impression without trying too hard.

The heart of the house is the kitchen, living and dining room, a space of extraordinary scale that opens across the rear of the property and does the work that good family rooms are supposed to do. The kitchen is fitted in soft sage cabinetry with a stone work surface and a generous central island with bar seating, pendant lights overhead. Morning light comes in across the dining table. The room is wide enough that the seating area at one end doesn't feel like an afterthought, and the outlook through multiple windows to the garden holds the connection between inside and out across the whole space.

The lounge is a different space entirely, and the contrast is one of Little Court's great qualities. A fireplace with a painted surround sits at one end. Meanwhile, the adjacent wall gives way to a full width run of glazed sliding doors opening directly onto the terrace and garden beyond. In summer, the room and the garden become one. In winter, the fireplace earns its place.

A generous snug or playroom offers a quieter retreat from the main living spaces. The property offers a formal lounge currently used as a games room and a dedicated study is sized properly for working from home rather than squeezed into a box room. The utility and boot room handles the practical realities of country living. Underfloor heating runs throughout the open plan living space.

Upstairs, six bedrooms are arranged across a well-considered first floor. The principal bedroom is calm and generously proportioned with its own en suite. The remaining five bedrooms range in scale and outlook, several of them substantial enough to serve as proper guest rooms or the bedrooms of older children who need their own space. A family bathroom and a separate shower room serve the first floor, and the layout feels planned rather than incidental.

The garden faces south west and is as good as the house deserves. A broad terrace runs directly off the formal lounge, the natural starting point for summer evenings, and beyond it an extensive level lawn stretches back through mature trees and lavender borders that catch the sun from early afternoon through to dusk. To one side, a sheltered seating area set against a period wall offers a more intimate corner when the main lawn is in full sun. The whole garden has a privacy and generosity of scale that is increasingly rare at this level.

To the front, a private gravel drive provides parking for several cars. Lapsed planning permission exists for an oak frame garage, and there is room to act on it.

This is a house that has been genuinely improved rather than simply updated, and the distinction matters. The renovation is careful, the finish is consistent, and the character of the original building has been respected throughout. For a family seeking village life at real scale, in a setting that rarely becomes available even in this part of Kent, Little Court is worth taking seriously.