Two acres of fun, games and serene strolls come delightfully decorated with a modern moat, fountains and Italianate walkways. Wandering and pottering here are best enjoyed with a G and T and good company. Stay out there for table tennis and kicking a ball into the nets with the kids… and the big kids.
Eat al-fresco on the terrace table and chairs and turn your kebabs on the coal barbecue. Wander a little more. Pour another gin. You deserve it.
Everything you do here, and everywhere you go, is warmed by underfloor gas heating. How cosy, and clever, because spaces here in this 10,000-square-foot party palace are cavernous. Mix and mingle with your favourite people in two huge reception rooms over Sky, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video streamed over high-speed broadband.
Make it a night at the movies in the huge-screened cinema room. Feeling at home there? Pull out the sofa bed and catch the early-morning screening. Keep your muscles bulging and your heart beating in the gym, with its bike, multigym and weights, and waste an evening in the games room over snooker, darts and pool.
You’d expect a high-end kitchen, and Mansion in the Meadows delivers, with its space-age island, gas cooker, microwave and American style fridge/freezer. Fill it with yummy goodies from Waitrose and Cake Box. Cook on two electric ovens with six gas burners, or just flat-out refuse, if only once. Our pro chefs will be happy to pull their whites on.
Al-fresco dining fan? The moated gardens are a rather lovely spot for dinner and the coal barbecue’s just waiting for your shish-kebabs and sausages. Still not up for skewer-turning? Consider takeaways from SJ Chicken for peri-peri and halal or Cray Bites for burgers, bacon and rotisserie chicken.
Head out to Seven Stars in Sidcup for traditional pub fare and a lively beer garden, or to Guy Earl of Warwick for beef-and-ale pie or chicken katsu curry. Try The Tailor’s Chalk for Wetherspoon’s finest breakfasts. Or pile into Red Barn in Bexley Heath for cheesy chicken and chorizo croquettes or mixed grills.
Restaurants around these parts include La Stalla for stroganoff, spaghetti carbonara or veal escalope with spaghetti Bolognese. Head down to Bengal Tandoori for garlic chicken tikka, shashlick, Madras and other Asian faves. Or try I love Gyoza for Japanese sushi and other Asian-style delicacies.
Seven bedrooms here are beautiful, beamed and brimming with luxury features, such as TVs and freestanding baths. Mansion in the Meadows sleeps 16 friends and family or corporate go-getters.
Bedroom one (Ruby Suite) on the first floor is your superking master suite, complete with luxury bath, while bedroom two (Gold Suite) is another master suite with kingsize bed. Bedroom three (Sapphire Suite) comes with a kingsize bed and bedroom four (Emerald) offers two double sofa beds.
Bedroom five on the ground floor has a double sofa bed, while bedroom six is a kingsize with an interconnecting door to bedroom seven, another kingsize. Freshen up in any of ten bathrooms. Yes, ten.
