3 bedroom house

The Croft is a pretty, Eighteenth Century village house offering characterful accommodation with ample parking, range of useful outbuildings, large gardens and pony paddock set within the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

This detached cottage is constructed of solid limestone walls under a pantile roof and is positioned on the southern side of the village street, enjoying open views and an unusually large plot of approximately 0.8 acres. It displays numerous appealing features including exposed beams, and an inglenook within the sitting room. The accommodation comprises: entrance hall, sitting room, dining room, kitchen diner with Aga, utility room, rear hall, guest cloakroom and store room/pantry. To the first floor there are three double bedrooms and a shower room. A stone barn adjoins the eastern end of the house and offers obvious scope to create additional accommodation, if required, subject to securing all necessary consents.

Some of the other outbuildings offer further potential, such as the former pig sties/loose boxes; there is ample room to park, in addition to a double garage. The gardens are large and enjoy a private southerly aspect with wide range of mature shrubs and plants. The bottom half of the plot consists of a very useful pony paddock which will be of particular appeal to buyers with equestrian or smallholding interests.

Stonegrave is a picturesque North Yorkshire village which lies on the Malton to Helmsley road, along the southern slopes of Caulkley’s Bank. The closest primary school is at the nearby estate village of Hovingham where there is also a popular gastro pub, bakery, café, hair salon and doctor’s surgery. The neighbouring market towns of Malton and Helmsley offer a wide range of local amenities including secondary schooling and a railway station in Malton with regular services to York, from where London can be reached in less than 2 hours.