5 bedroom house
Loweswater, Cockermouth, Cumbria, CA13 0RU
Guide Price
£850,000
Residential Tags: Edwardian, Grade II
Property Tags: N/A
Land Tags: Fishing Rights and Lakes, Pasture Land
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Aug 2021
- Removed: Date Not Available
- Residential Tags: Edwardian, Grade II
- Property Tags: N/A
- Land Tags: Fishing Rights and Lakes, Pasture Land
Rare Grade II listed North Lakes country house in a glorious setting between Loweswater and Crummock Water with about 4.64 acres.
Description
This fine Grade II listed north Lakes country house is not only a comfortable and characterful family home but offers fantastic further potential to remodel to meet more contemporary lifestyles.
The property retains its period charm with well-proportioned rooms mostly with window seats, stone fireplaces and staircase, antique pine doors and has gas LPG central heating and a private drainage system. The south side of the house is later built and provides a large games room opening to the garden room with the vaulted master bedroom above and scope to integrate the adjoining sixth bedroom as a dressing room or en suite bathroom. The large games room would be ideal for relocation of the kitchen.
The property presently includes a pretty rose-covered entrance opening to a hall with a study/office off to the right. To the left is the lounge with two windows to the front and an Edwardian fireplace, a real fire and slate hearth and inner.
Double doors lead through to the dining room with views over fields at the rear and a door to the games room with its tiled floor and double doors to the garden room. This is also tiled, has breath-taking views and French doors to the gardens and rear terrace. An internal door leads from the games room to the garage with an electrically operated door.
The kitchen is beyond the dining room and includes oak door cupboards, and oil fired AGA and fridge and dishwasher recesses. A glazed door opens to the rear terrace, perfect for outside entertaining.
The inner hall has a stone staircase and bi-fold doors to the main hall entrance hall. A cloakroom/shower room is perfectly placed for dog washing after walks to the lake or the fells. An internal door off the inner hall leads to the side store and utility room with plumbing for a washer and dryer and the new Worcester central heating boiler with its pressurised system. A door opens to the front and a second door to the rear terrace and garden. A mezzanine floor offers plenty of storage.
The stone staircase leads to a half landing with amazing views to Mellbreak and on to the main landing with its linen cupboard. The bedroom opposite has fitted pine wardrobes, a window seat to the front and library shelving to the recess.
The house bathroom has a panelled bath, pedestal wash hand basin and a close coupled w.c. The second bedroom is to the right and has views to the rear and a deep window sill.
Bedrooms three and four are down the landing, both have views to the front to Grasmoor and one has fitted pine wardrobes and a window seat, the other a dual aspect.
A couple of steps lead down to a second landing area with fitted bespoke wardrobe cupboards and the fifth bedroom, a small double with scope to convert to a further bathroom to be virtually en suite to the vaulted master bedroom. With its triple aspect there are amazing views over the surrounding Lakeland countryside.
The gardens are mainly to the south of the house with lawns and a gated pathway. The rear has a terrace area for barbecues and a sunny westerly aspect. A further garden lies across the lane and is a paradise of orchard, specimen trees and wild flowers. The field is to the south of the house and is currently grazing land. In all there are about 4.64 acres. Parking is to the north side of the house with space for numerous cars.
Location
Muncaster House is situated in beautiful and peaceful countryside, in the north western corner of the English Lake District, lying between Loweswater and Crummock Water lakes and enjoying stunning views to Mellbreak, Grasmoor and the surrounding western Lakeland fells.
Occupying a quiet and secluded position, approached by a single track lane, Muncaster House lies in one of the most unspoilt, tranquil and least frequented areas of the Lake District. The countryside around is generally regarded as some of the most favoured in Lakeland with magnificent lake and mountain scenery, attractive villages and hamlets and with much less visitor pressure than in the more central Lakeland villages and valleys.
A leafy footpath leads from the front of the house down to the shore of Crummock Water, a pleasant 10 minute walk, crossing Park Beck via a foot bridge and continues on to Buttermere to the south.
Lorton, the nearest village, is about 10 minutes’ drive away providing basic amenities including a Post Office and shop, primary school and tennis club. The award winning Kirkstile Inn in Loweswater brews its own beer and stands next to the church about 0.7 miles away. A pleasant 15 minute walk.
Muncaster House lies approximately 7.5 miles from Cockermouth, the local market town. Cockermouth is a delightful Georgian country town serving a wide rural area and includes a prosperous town centre with a Sainsburys supermarket. The town has a secondary school with an excellent reputation and there is a primary school serving the Loweswater area in Lorton.
Keswick, in the heart of Northern Lakeland and a major tourist centre, is about 12 miles to the east lying at the foot of Derwentwater and has a Booth's supermarket, the well-known Theatre by the Lake and an excellent retail centre specialising in the sale of outdoor equipment etc.
Despite its seclusion and rural location, Muncaster House is readily accessible. Junction 40 on the M6 at Penrith is about forty minutes away via Whinlatter Pass and the A66.
Square Footage: 3,051 sq ft
Acreage: 4.64 Acres
Marketed by: Savills, Wilmslow
Description
This fine Grade II listed north Lakes country house is not only a comfortable and characterful family home but offers fantastic further potential to remodel to meet more contemporary lifestyles.
The property retains its period charm with well-proportioned rooms mostly with window seats, stone fireplaces and staircase, antique pine doors and has gas LPG central heating and a private drainage system. The south side of the house is later built and provides a large games room opening to the garden room with the vaulted master bedroom above and scope to integrate the adjoining sixth bedroom as a dressing room or en suite bathroom. The large games room would be ideal for relocation of the kitchen.
The property presently includes a pretty rose-covered entrance opening to a hall with a study/office off to the right. To the left is the lounge with two windows to the front and an Edwardian fireplace, a real fire and slate hearth and inner.
Double doors lead through to the dining room with views over fields at the rear and a door to the games room with its tiled floor and double doors to the garden room. This is also tiled, has breath-taking views and French doors to the gardens and rear terrace. An internal door leads from the games room to the garage with an electrically operated door.
The kitchen is beyond the dining room and includes oak door cupboards, and oil fired AGA and fridge and dishwasher recesses. A glazed door opens to the rear terrace, perfect for outside entertaining.
The inner hall has a stone staircase and bi-fold doors to the main hall entrance hall. A cloakroom/shower room is perfectly placed for dog washing after walks to the lake or the fells. An internal door off the inner hall leads to the side store and utility room with plumbing for a washer and dryer and the new Worcester central heating boiler with its pressurised system. A door opens to the front and a second door to the rear terrace and garden. A mezzanine floor offers plenty of storage.
The stone staircase leads to a half landing with amazing views to Mellbreak and on to the main landing with its linen cupboard. The bedroom opposite has fitted pine wardrobes, a window seat to the front and library shelving to the recess.
The house bathroom has a panelled bath, pedestal wash hand basin and a close coupled w.c. The second bedroom is to the right and has views to the rear and a deep window sill.
Bedrooms three and four are down the landing, both have views to the front to Grasmoor and one has fitted pine wardrobes and a window seat, the other a dual aspect.
A couple of steps lead down to a second landing area with fitted bespoke wardrobe cupboards and the fifth bedroom, a small double with scope to convert to a further bathroom to be virtually en suite to the vaulted master bedroom. With its triple aspect there are amazing views over the surrounding Lakeland countryside.
The gardens are mainly to the south of the house with lawns and a gated pathway. The rear has a terrace area for barbecues and a sunny westerly aspect. A further garden lies across the lane and is a paradise of orchard, specimen trees and wild flowers. The field is to the south of the house and is currently grazing land. In all there are about 4.64 acres. Parking is to the north side of the house with space for numerous cars.
Location
Muncaster House is situated in beautiful and peaceful countryside, in the north western corner of the English Lake District, lying between Loweswater and Crummock Water lakes and enjoying stunning views to Mellbreak, Grasmoor and the surrounding western Lakeland fells.
Occupying a quiet and secluded position, approached by a single track lane, Muncaster House lies in one of the most unspoilt, tranquil and least frequented areas of the Lake District. The countryside around is generally regarded as some of the most favoured in Lakeland with magnificent lake and mountain scenery, attractive villages and hamlets and with much less visitor pressure than in the more central Lakeland villages and valleys.
A leafy footpath leads from the front of the house down to the shore of Crummock Water, a pleasant 10 minute walk, crossing Park Beck via a foot bridge and continues on to Buttermere to the south.
Lorton, the nearest village, is about 10 minutes’ drive away providing basic amenities including a Post Office and shop, primary school and tennis club. The award winning Kirkstile Inn in Loweswater brews its own beer and stands next to the church about 0.7 miles away. A pleasant 15 minute walk.
Muncaster House lies approximately 7.5 miles from Cockermouth, the local market town. Cockermouth is a delightful Georgian country town serving a wide rural area and includes a prosperous town centre with a Sainsburys supermarket. The town has a secondary school with an excellent reputation and there is a primary school serving the Loweswater area in Lorton.
Keswick, in the heart of Northern Lakeland and a major tourist centre, is about 12 miles to the east lying at the foot of Derwentwater and has a Booth's supermarket, the well-known Theatre by the Lake and an excellent retail centre specialising in the sale of outdoor equipment etc.
Despite its seclusion and rural location, Muncaster House is readily accessible. Junction 40 on the M6 at Penrith is about forty minutes away via Whinlatter Pass and the A66.
Square Footage: 3,051 sq ft
Acreage: 4.64 Acres
Marketed by: Savills, Wilmslow
Land Registry Data
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