A “lustworthy” Kent home, described as a doll’s house, is on the market again but with an asking price slashed by £1 million.

The Old Rectory in Wickhambreaux is up for £3.25 million and features eight bedrooms, a swimming pool, tennis courts and even a wine cellar.

In January 2023 it was up for £4.25m having been sold for £1.9m in 2014.

The Grade II-listed house was featured as The Times' property of the week in the newspaper's "lustworthy homes" section last time it was on the market.

The paper described it as looking like a "doll's house, picture perfect and handsomely symmetrical”.

Estate agents Strutt and Parker hail it a “quintessentially English property”, adding: “It is a much-admired and very fine example of Queen Anne architecture.

“With symmetrical facades on both the front and rear elevations, the house exudes significant character and has been stylishly and extensively updated in recent years by the current owners.”

The property has undergone a huge restoration and improvement project, including creating a fitness room, swimming pool and tennis court.

Overlooking the village green and a stone’s throw from the Rose Inn pub, it was once owned by Giles Newby Vincent - a designer for the TV show Downton Abbey who also helped furnish the homes of celebrities like Elton John.

There is a separate "well-appointed" period cottage with a sitting room, fitted kitchen, ground floor bathroom and a spacious first floor bedroom.

The main house also boasts four reception rooms, three bathrooms, a study, wine cellar and laundry room.

The house sits in almost one acre of gardens and the agents add: "The partly-walled garden has been carefully and sensitively landscaped, and makes a wonderful sanctuary.

"As well as the formal lawn, which has a summer house at its focal point and is surrounded by mature hedges and walls, with well-tended borders and a variety of specimen trees, there are terraces beside the house and these provide a variety of entertaining spaces.

“The vegetable garden is located at the far end of the garden, sheltered behind an abundance of lined pear and apple trees which form the orchard, along with grapevines in the Victorian greenhouse."