Location

There are plenty of footpaths, bridleways and cycle routes from the village linking the adjoining villages and the Howardian Hills are three miles away.

Sheriff Hutton (2.5 miles) is a "thriving conservation village" situated between the Vale of York and the Howardian Hills. The village has a church, village hall, garage, primary school (Ofsted Good 2020), post office/shop, Quarmby's Delicatessen and Coffee House, and a bus service. The village public house, The Highwayman is a traditional country pub serving quality food with a spacious beer garden.

Stillington (2.7 miles) is a popular and well served village on the edge of the Howardian Hills. Local facilities include a community owned post office, two pubs, a primary school, doctors surgery, Indian restaurant and sport fields. There are regular bus services to both York and the nearby market town of Easingwold.

Easingwold is the nearest market town (7.4 miles) and has good local amenities including a secondary school and supermarket. Thirsk (18.5 miles) has direct train services to London, some making the journey in as little as two hours fifteen minutes. York is about 12.7 miles to the south and has extensive facilities including its historic minster, train station and racecourse. Some train services from York make the journey to London in under two hours.

There are several local independent schools nearby including Ampleforth College, Terrington Prep School, Cundall Manor and Queen Ethelburga's College. There are further independent schools in York: The Mount, Bootham and St Peters.

There is the Michelin starred restaurants The Star at Harome (11.4 miles) and The Black Swan at Oldstead (13.4 miles). York boasts excellent restaurants including the award winning The Star Inn the City by Andrew Pern and the Michelin-starred restaurant, Roots, by Tommy Banks. In addition, there is Skosh by Neil Bentinck which also boasts a Michelin-star, positioned on popular Micklegate. There are a number of supermarkets in and around the city, including a Waitrose at Foss Islands Road and a large Marks and Spencer at the Vanguard Shopping Park.   

Please note all distances and travel times are approximate.

Description

An exceptional conversion of a beautifully presented period barn with wonderful rural views, standing in generous gardens and grounds extending to just over 4 acres. Boasting an impressive entrance hall, a magnificent dining kitchen and a sitting room with superb features, this immaculate property must be viewed to be appreciated.

It benefits from a private location on the edge of a hamlet in the Howardian Hills, between the well served villages of Stillington and Sheriff Hutton, and the popular market towns of Easingwold and Malton.

A beautiful oak entrance porch opens out to the impressive galleried hall with limestone flooring and sweeping staircase to the first floor. The heart of the home is the kitchen-dining-sitting room, a beautifully bright room with oak framed extension creating floor to ceiling windows overlooking the gardens and land beyond. The kitchen is adorned with handcrafted wooden cabinetry, quality built-in appliances, a central island unit and underfloor heating to the extension.

Sitting adjacent you will find a galleried sitting room with a striking brick chimney breast housing a log-burning stove and French doors opening to the garden patio providing an excellent al-fresco entertaining space.

Continuing through the ground floor is a cloakroom, boot room, utility, study and snug. The guest bedroom suite sits at the east of the property and provides easily accessible accommodation for guests whilst providing plenty of privacy away from the main bedrooms.

The first floor houses a luxurious principal bedroom suite with dressing room and a well-appointed bathroom, two further double bedrooms, and a house bathroom.

Externally the property overlooks immaculately landscaped gardens mainly comprising of pristine lawns and carefully planned borders. The garden features a pond with seating area and leads down to an idyllic stream. To the rear of the house there are a number of raised cut-flower beds.
An additional grass paddock of just under two acres sits beyond the garden.