Sixty-one years on the same floor of a locally listed 1880s Victorian building. Tony Reece-Jones opened the practice in 1965. His daughter, Sarah Reece-Jones, has been the Partner since 1998 and still leads Commercial Property from this desk. Behind her: Tracy Gower on residential conveyancing, twenty-five years at the same address; Sally Andrews heading Wills, Trusts and Probate; and four others on the desk. The wider Wellers network across London, Bromley, Chislehurst and Surrey sits behind the Sevenoaks door when the work calls for it.
The Sevenoaks office is a residential and commercial conveyancing desk paired with a Private Client (wills and probate) desk and a Dispute Resolution solicitor. Family law is handled from the Bromley office and Bromley specialists can travel to meet you in Sevenoaks if that is more convenient. The grid below reflects what is actually done at 50-52 London Road, rather than the full firm-wide list.
House sales and purchases across Sevenoaks, Otford, Kemsing, Shoreham, Westerham and the wider West Kent catchment. Transfers of equity, mortgage porting, leasehold purchase, freehold to leasehold conversions, shared-ownership conveyancing. Tracy Gower has run this desk for over twenty-five years. Julie Bowen is the second voice on every file.
Leads Tracy Gower, Julie BowenTax-efficient will drafting, lasting powers of attorney, declarations of trust, the obtaining of probate on straightforward and taxable estates, full estate administration. Sally Andrews (Senior Solicitor) heads the Private Client desk; Tara Edwards drafts wills and LPAs alongside her; Kristian Longhurst supports the file work. The desk that drafts the document and the desk that administers the estate are the same desk.
Leads Sally Andrews, Tara EdwardsCommercial purchases and sales, the grant and assignment of leases, landlord and tenant for Sevenoaks small businesses and West Kent rural commercial, security on commercial lending. Sarah Reece-Jones (Partner) has run commercial property at this office since 1998. The desk for the local independent shop owner buying their freehold and the parish charity granting a lease over a village hall.
Leads Sarah Reece-JonesCivil and commercial disputes, property litigation, contract disputes, debt recovery, neighbour and boundary disputes. Sasha Burl (Solicitor) is the Sevenoaks contact. The desk's remit is to settle the disagreement properly the first time, in writing, before it becomes a court matter, and to litigate cleanly when settlement is not on the table.
Leads Sasha BurlNumber 50-52 London Road was built in the 1880s as a free-standing yellow-brick Victorian building, three floors, with early Victorian pilasters and shop fronts to the street. Its first tenant was a harness and saddlers business; the ground floor has worn many trades since (footwear, travel, fabrics, kitchens, flooring) and is locally listed by Sevenoaks District Council for "imposing size that allows it to function as a stop end to the street frontage". The Second Floor was made into a solicitors' office in 1965.
That year, Tony Reece-Jones opened the Reece-Jones Partnership on this floor. The address has not moved. In 1998 Tony retired and his daughter Sarah Reece-Jones took over the partnership alongside Philip Jackson, continuing the practice on the same floor under the same name. In 2014 the Reece-Jones Partnership joined Wellers Law Group LLP, which traces to 1881, to become Wellers Reece Jones. Sarah is still the Partner. The desk has been a solicitors' office longer than the building was ever a saddlery.
Today the Sevenoaks desk is seven: Sarah Reece-Jones (Partner, Commercial Property), Tracy Gower (Licensed Conveyancer, twenty-five years at this desk), Sally Andrews (Senior Solicitor, Wills/Trusts/Probate), Tara Edwards (Private Client Executive), Sasha Burl (Solicitor, Dispute Resolution), Julie Bowen (Conveyancing Assistant) and Kristian Longhurst (Support, Private Client). The wider Wellers network in London, Bromley, Chislehurst and Surrey sits behind the front door when a matter needs a Town and Parish council specialist, a Charity Law adviser, or a Bromley family lawyer to travel down for the first meeting.
“I have used Tracy as my conveyancer for over twenty-five years.” Sevenoaks client review of Tracy Gower, Licensed Conveyancer, residential property desk
The Sevenoaks office is the people on the Second Floor. Below: Sarah Reece-Jones, Tracy Gower, Sally Andrews, Tara Edwards, Sasha Burl, Julie Bowen and Kristian Longhurst. Each card carries the direct number you would be given over the phone at reception, plus a paragraph on the work each of them owns.
Commercial property at the Sevenoaks desk. Commercial purchases and sales, the grant and assignment of leases, landlord and tenant work, security on commercial lending. The only Sevenoaks solicitor whose surname is on the door, and the practice she runs now is the one her father opened on this floor in 1965.
The senior residential conveyancer at Sevenoaks. House sales and purchases, transfers of equity, mortgage porting, leasehold purchase, shared-ownership conveyancing. One Sevenoaks client wrote: "I have used Tracy as my conveyancer for over twenty-five years." Reads chains the way most people read sentences.
Wills and tax-efficient estate planning, lasting powers of attorney, declarations of trust, the full administration of taxable and non-taxable estates. A Sevenoaks client wrote of a recent probate matter: "Sally was incredibly helpful throughout the process of my late father's probate." The first call when a will needs drafting or an estate needs administering.
Will drafting and lasting powers of attorney, working alongside Sally Andrews on the Private Client desk. A Sevenoaks client wrote: "Tara looked after our legal needs in the preparation and completion of our wills." The drafter you want when the family circumstances are not standard.
Civil and commercial disputes, property litigation, contract disputes, debt recovery, boundary and neighbour disputes. The Sevenoaks lawyer for matters that have already started to turn into a fight, or that need a letter that will land properly the first time.
The second voice on every Tracy Gower conveyancing file. Searches, requisitions, completion-day coordination, the small administrative work that decides whether a chain holds or falls. A Sevenoaks client (Eddie Hughes) wrote: "Tracy, Julie and the team went above and beyond to help us complete on our target date."
The second pair of hands on the Sevenoaks wills and probate files. File-opening, ID checks, estate-accounts preparation, the quiet administrative continuity that lets the fee-earners stay on the legal questions.
The Sevenoaks desk runs four ordinary lines of work (residential conveyancing, wills and probate, commercial property, dispute resolution) at the Second Floor of an extraordinary building. 50-52 London Road has been a Sevenoaks solicitors' office on this floor for sixty-one years, longer than it was ever the harness and saddlers it was built to be. Around the corner: Knole, the Sackville family\'s thousand-acre deer park, neighbour to the desk since the office opened in 1965.
Behind the front door is the wider Wellers Law Group, with offices in London, Bromley, Chislehurst and Surrey, two specialist practices that route their files through Sevenoaks when the client is local:
A short enquiry form for an initial response by telephone or email. Once we understand the matter we can quote a fixed fee where the work supports it, or hourly with an estimated total where it does not. We say so in writing either way.
The office is on the Second Floor of the locally listed 1880s building. Bligh's Meadow shopping centre is two minutes on foot, the Stag Theatre across the road, Sevenoaks railway station ten minutes on foot and the gate to Knole Park a quarter-mile south-east. Public car parks at Suffolk Way and Buckhurst Lane are five minutes away.
Second Floor
50-52 London Road
Sevenoaks
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Yes. The Sevenoaks residential conveyancing desk publishes fixed fees on the most-instructed work: freehold purchase, freehold sale, leasehold purchase, leasehold sale, transfer of equity, and simultaneous purchase and sale. Tracy Gower or Julie Bowen will quote in writing within the same working day of a request, including the disbursements and search fees. Where a transaction is genuinely unusual (a complex chain, a defective title, a leasehold extension running alongside) we say so and quote hourly with a written estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, this is the work Sally Andrews's desk does most weeks. She will assess the residence nil-rate band and the downsizing addition, the available transferable nil-rate band, and the practical question of whether the family home is sold or transferred. Estate accounts are kept in writing throughout. Tara Edwards and Kristian Longhurst handle the file work in the background; Sally is the named solicitor on every probate matter.
Yes, by arrangement. The Sevenoaks office is open Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:30, and the front desk can almost always offer an evening or weekend slot for a will signing, a power-of-attorney execution or a first conveyancing meeting where weekday hours do not work. Telephone the office on 01732 457 575 to arrange a time.
Not from this office in-house. The wider Wellers family law team is based in the Bromley office and can travel to meet you in Sevenoaks if that is more convenient than visiting Bromley. We will route the first call to the named Bromley family lawyer and arrange the meeting at 50-52 London Road if you prefer. Honesty is the right answer here: a Sevenoaks file taken by a Bromley specialist gets you a better outcome than a Sevenoaks file taken by a generalist.
The Sevenoaks office is one of five Wellers offices: Sevenoaks, London, Bromley, Chislehurst and Surrey. The Sevenoaks office is locally led, with its own partner (Sarah Reece-Jones), its own seven-strong desk, its own SRA office number and a continuity at 50-52 London Road that runs back to 1965. The wider Wellers firm provides the network for matters that need a specialist colleague in another office, including the Town and Parish council practice and the Charity Law practice (over five hundred charities advised, led from London). What you get at Sevenoaks is a local desk on a 61-year continuity at the address, with a national specialist network available behind it when the work calls for it.