6 bedroom house

Imposing, detached, Victorian town house located in the heart of one of North Yorkshire’s finest market towns with its railway station and onward connection from York to London.

Entrance and staircase hall, wc/cloakroom, 2 reception rooms, kitchen breakfast room, utility room/laundry, 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, home office/bedroom 6
Lower ground floor: pantry/wine cellar, gym, games room, workshop, stores
Double garage, log store, garden store, landscaped gardens
In all some 0.3 acres

Beechwood enjoys an elevated central position in this lovely market town with fine views towards the North York Moors and Yorkshire Wolds. Surrounded by its own gardens the property is located within a sought-after leafy street just strolling distance from multiple amenities. This house has been almost entirely renovated and redecorated, and the elegant, well-proportioned rooms make a stylish platform for the interior design.

The entire lower ground floor would lend itself well to multi-generational living, letting or further creative renovation; the space totals some 1300 sq ft and has its own independent entrance, high ceilings and plenty of natural light. It is a hugely versatile space (part tanked, access to plumbing) with multiple rooms that are ripe for conversion and further renovation.

This detached town house with a Gothic tower circa 1887, is constructed of fashionable iron-hard Nori bricks with a slate roof. It offers substantial family living accommodation totalling nearly 4300 sq ft including storage options on every floor.

The internal architectural features include a number of magnificent fireplaces, traditional Victorian column radiators in most rooms, bays and deep windows, timber panelling, picture rails, decorative cornicing and plasterwork, stained glass, original floorboards, deep skirtings and quarry tiles.

The elegant staircase hall has oak parquet floor and a burnished cast iron radiator in the French Rococco style. A broad turning staircase with sturdy oak newel posts passes a double height picture window on the half landing with original stained-glass detail.

The glorious sitting room has a deep bay, stripped floorboards and Dik Geurts Ivar 8 wood-burning stove on slate hearth housed in an ornate marble fireplace.

The dining room has a triple south-facing window, stripped floorboards and Burley Bradgate wood-burning stove housed in a striking marble fireplace.

The contemporary kitchen breakfast room has oak work surfaces, a freestanding electric induction cooking range, oak parquet floor, and space for an 8-seater dining table. There is a traditional pantry on the lower ground floor. The large utility/laundry has a Belfast sink and cupboard housing the hotwater cylinder and provides rear access to the garden.

The top floor home office/bedroom 6 enjoys superb views north to the Moors. The property currently has superfast Broadband.

There are large and well-proportioned bedrooms on the first and good ceiling heights on the second floor with eaves storage.

Significant renovation works include double glazed sliding sash windows on three floors fitted 2017; installation of Worcester boiler in 2017; new carpets from Crucial Trading fitted 2017 and 2019; re-roofed and insulated in 2011.

Outside
Gate posts within a brick wall dressed with stone herald the entrance to the property. A tarmacadamed drive descends gently past a mature Horse Chestnut and Scots Pine on the western boundary (TPOs) to a parking and turning area alongside the main entrance to the house. Timber gates open to an additional parking area at the rear in front of the double garage with up and over doors, electrics and power. In all there is ample parking for some five cars.

The garden is predominantly laid to lawn (re-turfed 2019) and encircles the house, with areas of gravel and decking for sitting out. Timber and stonework buttress the different levels, and a mature Portuguese Laurel hedge has been planted around the entire perimeter of the property, flanking the high timber fence and providing screening; an additional Copper Beech hedge intersects to create a partition. This landscaped garden has an irrigation system laid.

Environs
Distances York 18 miles, John Lewis and Vangarde Retail Park 16 miles, Scarborough 25, Leeds 35 miles. (Distances approximate)

The picturesque Georgian market town of Malton has a national reputation as Yorkshire’s Food Capital with its independent shops, cafes and restaurants, artisan food producers and brewers, food market and Food Lovers Festival. Local amenities include a community hospital, doctors’ surgery, tennis courts, swimming pool, gyms, cinema and good schooling. Malton Railway Station lies within a ten minute stroll from Middlecave Road offering direct links to the East Coast, to mainline York and on to Leeds, London, Liverpool and Manchester Airport. The A64 bypasses the town and provides excellent road links east and west, and the Coastliner bus service operates frequent inter city services. This easily accessible corner of North Yorkshire has it all; the historic city of York, the North York Moors, Castle Howard, David Hockney’s Yorkshire Wolds and The Heritage Coast are all on the doorstep.

General
Services: All mains services. Gas central heating.

Tenure: Freehold

Fixtures & fittings: Only those mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. All others, such as fitted carpets, curtains, light fittings, garden ornaments etc., are specifically excluded but may be made available by separate negotiation.

Local authority: Ryedale District Council 01653 600666

Directions: No. 68 lies at the lower end of Middlecave Road, on the right hand side as denoted by the stone nameplate and the For Sale board.