Location

Balk sits below the Hambleton Hills on the fringes of the North York Moors National Park. The area is popular, being accessible to the A19 and A1, with excellent links to the north and south. The nearby village of Bagby (just under one mile) offers a few amenities including a public house, shop, church, nursery and a local cabinet maker. Thirsk is only 2 miles away and is a busy market town with a racecourse and direct train links to London. For more extensive amenities, the historic City of York is only 19 miles to the south.

Description

This superb period property offers endless potential, once a sizeable family home it is currently divided into two dwellings and would therefore be ideally suited to multi-generational living or for those looking for a second income.

The main residence is entered through a spacious entrance hall with two equally proportioned principal reception rooms to either side. There is a generous kitchen/ breakfast room which gives way to a rear entrance hall and downstairs shower room. Just off from the kitchen sits a useful garden room.

To the first floor there are three bedrooms and a house bathroom.

The adjoining cottage was originally part of the main property, with a later extension added to create a spacious three bedroom home with three ground floor reception rooms, a kitchen/ breakfast room, utility and downstairs shower room.

The property benefits from a range of outbuildings totalling 2939 square foot, the outbuildings are insulated and have electric and water, currently used as a business showroom they have potential to be converted into additional accommodation subject to the usual planning consents.

Sitting behind a large gravelled driveway, providing ample parking for several cars, the property sits in the middle of an impressive plot totaling of around an acre with a particularly private lawned garden to the side and rear.