This Country Home Has Its Very Own Bowling Alley

There are country homes with private cinemas and country homes with leopard-print living rooms, but this dazzling home in Kent is the first one we’ve seen with its very own bowling alley. Take a look…

Look Inside… A Kent Home With Its Own Bowling Alley

Just beside the handsome stone house on Kent’s Broomsleigh Park estate, you’ll spot an impressive glass-walled building. It might look like an orangery, or even a greenhouse, but it is, in fact, a gigantic leisure complex containing a swimming pool, sports hall and football pitch – plus a bowling alley.

Broomsleigh Park may be a historic Kent home dating back to 1860, but there’s far more to it than its handsome façade and period features: after an extensive internal renovation, it now contains a host of contemporary amenities. Alongside the dazzling leisure complex, the main house boasts a 25-foot kitchen/dining room, a separate prep kitchen, and a lavish TV room. 

Of course, the property is still brimming with country charm: just take a look at the soaring ceilings, oak herringbone floors and panelled walls. You’ll also spot full-height sash and bay windows and plenty of working fireplaces throughout, plus intricate cornicing and ceiling roses. (There is, incidentally, both an orangery and a greenhouse.)

Upstairs is the double-aspect principal suite, which boasts an open fireplace, a dressing room and a luxurious bathroom with a double vanity unit, freestanding bathtub and walk-in shower. The house is complete with an additional bedroom suite as well as four further bedrooms served by two large bathrooms.

Accessed via an enclosed walkway downstairs, the all-important leisure complex houses a swimming pool with a fully-retractable glass roof, plus the bowling alley. An adjoining sports hall contains a gym and games area.

You’ll find the floodlit football pitch/tennis court within the 18-acre grounds, alongside a two-bedroom annexe, detached garaging, and equestrian facilities. There’s even a newly-built treehouse tucked away between the lawns, paved terraces and formal gardens. This just might be the dream country home…

Available through Knight Frank and Savills at a guide price of £9.95 million.