The Old Farm

A popular area with walkers, this charming house has views across 'Hockney Country' and can be found at the end of a long private driveway just outside Rudston, Driffield. Rudston is the oldest inhabited village in England with a 3000 year old monolith in the churchyard.

The Old Farm offers 5 bedrooms, a ‘proper’ farmhouse kitchen and open fires in several room giving it huge character while also offering plenty of scope for a little restoration and redecoration.

The drawing room boasts high ceilings and a feature open fireplace. Light floods in from both a window to the side and front offering pleasant views over the large rear walled garden and which in turn provides easy pedestrian access to the village.

The dining room also has a large open fireplace and offers stunning views across the lawned garden and towards the hills and David Hockney’s Woldgate a subject he returned to endlessly, making repeated paintings to observe the dramatic seasonal changes which featured in his exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Entering the house through the back door and utility room, you will find the heart of this family home, with its bright double sized kitchen and breakfast room, offering excellent storage, large Aga, Belfast sink and double doors opening out to a pretty kitchen garden.

A cellar can be found in the basement, a study and large conservatory are to the rear of the house making the most of the views over the meadow and pond.

Upstairs you will find five bedrooms and three bathrooms. Bedroom five would perhaps have been the original servants’ quarters with a separate staircase leading to the study. This now offers an ideal modern-day arrangement for guests or indeed could easily separated for use as an annex- providing ideal space for multigenerational living.

The south facing lawned garden has been designed to complement the house and offers contrast to the kitchen garden, meadow and paddock beyond.

The outbuilding, previously a stable, woodstore and hayloft, has excellent potential for redevelopment.

Kilham is the nearest village, 3 miles away with two pubs, a primary school (Ofsted Good 2013), butchers, post office and village store. Burton Agnes is 3.5 miles distant with a stately home, Burton Agnes Hall, with café, shops and fabulous gardens, there is also a church and primary school within the village.

Sitting in approx 2.6 acres.

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