7 bedroom house

This impressive country residence has some fine principal reception rooms which have retained many original Victorian features including solid wood parquet flooring, detailed moulded plaster work, deep skirting boards, architraves and servants bells.
This property is on the market for the first time in forty years and offers an incoming purchaser the opportunity to acquire an interesting package of a sizeable main house with accommodation extending to over 5,800 square feet (including an integral but self contained one bedroom flat), an ancillary three/four bedroom lodge house, separate chapel building with attached store and garage, stabling, useful outbuildings, outdoor pool, formal gardens, an attractive lake and grazing land - in all extending to approximately 13.6 acres.
The impressive accommodation within the main house, although well maintained, would now benefit from some updating. It briefly comprises a spacious reception hall with feature fireplace housing a wood burning stove and a central oak staircase to the upper floor, adjacent dual aspect drawing room which is flooded with natural light, formal dining room with feature fireplace flanked by elegant Gothic alcoves, separate study, breakfast kitchen with oil fired Aga and a range of fitted wall and base units with Corian work surfaces, and a useful scullery/utility off the kitchen leading out to the enclosed rear courtyard. The remainder of the ground floor accommodation is completed by a guest cloakroom with w/c, cosy snug with double doors through to a large south facing garden room with three sets of French doors out the magnificent private gardens beyond.
To the first floor, the sizeable principal bedroom suite enjoys a southerly aspect with a walk through fully fitted dressing area, luxurious en suite bathroom and separate w/c. In addition there are a further four bedrooms, one with a Jack & Jill en suite, and a well appointed house bathroom. An additional staircase rises from the landing to a further bedroom with a dormer window in the eaves of the roof.
Integral to the house, but with its own access via a separate rear staircase from the back of the property, is a self contained flat with first floor accommodation comprising a entrance hall, living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. A door off the living room links the flat to the first floor landing of the main house.
The useful enclosed rear courtyard area comprises various stores, gardeners w/c and a separate utility room which houses the oil fired boiler.
An attractive detached brick and slate lodge house adjacent to the main gates provides three/four bedroom accommodation arranged over two floors, with a pretty and enclosed rear garden and separate external store.
Outside, the property can be accessed via either a gated driveway passing the lodge house with a sweeping approach revealing the main facade of the house, or via a second gated rear driveway leading to an ample parking area and garaging to the back of the house and chapel. The significant gardens and grounds are particularly private with shelter provided by a brick wall and mature trees and planting to the western boundary with the Pottery Lane. The formal gardens are mainly laid to lawn with planted beds and an impressive lake surrounded by specimen tress on the southern edge. The highly productive kitchen garden area is partly walled with a range of cold frames and fruit cages. An adjacent paddock area, which houses the stabling, leads through to the large grassed field which is well fenced with a hedged boundary and access on to Green Lane.
Also within the grounds is an interesting chapel which boasts a 40 foot long open plan room with double height ceiling, attached store, garaging and south facing outdoor pool area. This building would be ideal to redevelop into further ancillary accommodation, subject to gaining the necessary planning permissions required.

Littlethorpe is situated some 2 miles south of Ripon, convenient for the

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