Myddelton Lodge
Ilkley, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 0AB
Guide Price
£4,950,000
Residential Tags: Grade I Listed, Grade II
Property Tags: N/A
Land Tags: Paddock, Woodland
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Apr 2022
- Removed: Date Not Available
- Residential Tags: Grade I Listed, Grade II
- Property Tags: N/A
- Land Tags: Paddock, Woodland
NEARBY
Skipton 9 miles | Leeds 18 miles (Direct train service to London Kings Cross taking approximately 2 hours 10 minutes) | Bradford 16 miles | Leeds Bradford Airport 11 miles | Harrogate 18 miles
(Distances and times are approximate)
ACCOMMODATION
Main House:
Drawing room | Former Chapel with living area, dining area, kitchen and utility room/secondary kitchen | Morning room | Boot room | Inner hall | Office/library | Family room/gym | Sitting room | Cellar
Principal bedroom suite with en suite bathroom and dressing room | Guest bedroom with en suite shower room | three further bedrooms | Family bathroom | two further bedrooms with Jack and Jill shower room
East wing:
Kitchen/breakfast room | Dining room | Sitting room | first floor sitting room | two bedroom suites with en suite bathrooms | Two further bedrooms | Family bathroom
Gardens and grounds:
Landscaped lawned and formal gardens | Paddock | Woodland | Yoga studio / garaging | Grade II listed garden gazebo
In all about 6.38 acres
INTRODUCTION
The accommodation in Myddelton Lodge offers excellent flexibility for family living and entertaining and centres around the former chapel room, dating from around 1830, with its huge vaulted ceiling, stained glass window, and mezzanine. It is an extremely light room with large lancet windows allowing light to pour in, along its southern elevation. The other room of particular note is the former Great Chamber, now the drawing room, with its two grand fireplaces in adjacent corners of the room. The further family accommodation within the main house includes a morning room, sitting room and family room, presently used as a gym. There is also an office/library, two cloakrooms, boot room and a cellar, accessed by steps from the everyday entrance hall.
On the first floor level there is a bedroom suite above the office/library, and the main staircase leads up through the house to the principal bedroom suite, which extends across the whole length of the house and also has impressive fireplaces, with a large en suite bathroom and dressing room, along with a separate bedroom. The stairs rise to the second floor bedroom accommodation, with a family bathroom, two further bedrooms and two more bedrooms which share a Jack and Jill shower room, all off a large central landing.
The East wing, which can be accessed from the main house, has its own separate entrance hall; it also has a kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, and dining room on the ground floor. There are two guest bedroom suites on the first floor with en suite bathrooms, two further bedrooms, sitting room, and family bathroom.
Garden and grounds.
Myddelton Lodge sits in around 6.38 acres of lawned and formal gardens, with a paddock interspersed with recently planted trees and mature woodland. The house has two outbuildings. One is a garage with space for two cars, the second is a former garage which is now used as a fully fitted yoga studio with heating, a shower and WC. Within the grounds, to the south east, there is a Grade II listed gazebo, dated from the 16th or 17th century, square in shape and built with course squared stone, with internal plaster decorations and a pyramidical roof.
ENVIRONS
Myddelton Lodge commands a spectacular south facing position across the valley, overlooking Ilkley and Ilkley Moor. Surrounded by beautiful Wharfedale countryside, this prestigious house is on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There is excellent walking and direct access to horseriding bridleways across the surrounding countryside.
The property is situated about a half-mile away from Ilkley’s thriving town centre, which offers comprehensive shops, restaurants, boutique cinema, cafes and everyday amenities including two supermarkets, a health centre, a playhouse and library.
In addition, there is an excellent range of highly regarded schools, both private and state, for children of all ages, including Ilkley Grammar School.Ilkley is well-placed for all of the principal Yorkshire business centres, including Leeds, Bradford and Harrogate. Road connections are excellent and frequent rail services run from Ilkley to Leeds and Bradford with train services from Leeds to London King’s Cross taking from 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Leeds Bradford international airport is around a 20 minute drive away.
SERVICES
Mains water and electricity, gas fired central heating and mains drainage.
LOCAL AUTHROITY
City of Bradford District Council.
TENURE
We are advised that the property is freehold and that vacant possession will be granted upon legal completion.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Easements, wayleaves and rights of way:
The property is offered for sale subject to and with the benefit of any rights of way, either public or private, all easements, wayleaves and other rights of way, whether they are referred to or not. No public rights of way cross the owned land.
History:
Positioned to the north of the Wharfe River, high above Ilkley and to the west of Middleton village, Myddelton Lodge originates from the 13th century. It was home to one of Ilkley’s most famous families, the Middletons, for centuries. They sustained the Catholic faith in and around Ilkley, being recusants, meaning they held their faith in spite of hostile legislation and cruel repression. Often in danger of death and at great financial cost, the Middletons led and supported the Catholic community in Wharfedale during penal times. Benedictine chaplains resided at Myddelton Lodge and a chapel and school were provided. After Catholic Emancipation in 1829, the Middletons continued to support local Catholics and in 1879 endowed the Church of the Sacred Heart.
The Cross and Passion Fathers restored a Catholic presence at the Lodge in 1922 when it became St. Paul's Retreat. Until 1985 it was a seminary, a monastery and a retreat house. The Passionists also ministered to the parish of the English Martyrs in Addingham. The Sisters of the Cross and Passion had begun their ministry in Ilkley in 1899.
It was later sold to the Diocese of Leeds, who opened it as a pastoral centre. Neglected in the late 1990s, it was later restored to its former glory by private owners, which won a conservation award from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The current owners have sympathetically refurbished Myddelton Lodge since their ownership of the last 10 years.
In the field to the south of Myddelton Lodge, there are earthworks and the buried remains of Scalewra medieval settlement, along with part of the open field system linked to the settlement. Scalewra belonged to the Middleton township (with the other parish townships being Ilkley and Nesfield). By the middle of the 12th century the settlement was held by Hypollitus de Braham, an ancestor of the Middleton Family. Records show that Scalewra existed in 1456 but it is likely it was depopulated by the late 15th century.
DIRECTIONS
VIEWING ARRANGEMENTS
All viewings are strictly by appointment with the joint sole selling agents Knight Frank LLP or Croft Residential.
Marketed by: Croft, York
Skipton 9 miles | Leeds 18 miles (Direct train service to London Kings Cross taking approximately 2 hours 10 minutes) | Bradford 16 miles | Leeds Bradford Airport 11 miles | Harrogate 18 miles
(Distances and times are approximate)
ACCOMMODATION
Main House:
Drawing room | Former Chapel with living area, dining area, kitchen and utility room/secondary kitchen | Morning room | Boot room | Inner hall | Office/library | Family room/gym | Sitting room | Cellar
Principal bedroom suite with en suite bathroom and dressing room | Guest bedroom with en suite shower room | three further bedrooms | Family bathroom | two further bedrooms with Jack and Jill shower room
East wing:
Kitchen/breakfast room | Dining room | Sitting room | first floor sitting room | two bedroom suites with en suite bathrooms | Two further bedrooms | Family bathroom
Gardens and grounds:
Landscaped lawned and formal gardens | Paddock | Woodland | Yoga studio / garaging | Grade II listed garden gazebo
In all about 6.38 acres
INTRODUCTION
The accommodation in Myddelton Lodge offers excellent flexibility for family living and entertaining and centres around the former chapel room, dating from around 1830, with its huge vaulted ceiling, stained glass window, and mezzanine. It is an extremely light room with large lancet windows allowing light to pour in, along its southern elevation. The other room of particular note is the former Great Chamber, now the drawing room, with its two grand fireplaces in adjacent corners of the room. The further family accommodation within the main house includes a morning room, sitting room and family room, presently used as a gym. There is also an office/library, two cloakrooms, boot room and a cellar, accessed by steps from the everyday entrance hall.
On the first floor level there is a bedroom suite above the office/library, and the main staircase leads up through the house to the principal bedroom suite, which extends across the whole length of the house and also has impressive fireplaces, with a large en suite bathroom and dressing room, along with a separate bedroom. The stairs rise to the second floor bedroom accommodation, with a family bathroom, two further bedrooms and two more bedrooms which share a Jack and Jill shower room, all off a large central landing.
The East wing, which can be accessed from the main house, has its own separate entrance hall; it also has a kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, and dining room on the ground floor. There are two guest bedroom suites on the first floor with en suite bathrooms, two further bedrooms, sitting room, and family bathroom.
Garden and grounds.
Myddelton Lodge sits in around 6.38 acres of lawned and formal gardens, with a paddock interspersed with recently planted trees and mature woodland. The house has two outbuildings. One is a garage with space for two cars, the second is a former garage which is now used as a fully fitted yoga studio with heating, a shower and WC. Within the grounds, to the south east, there is a Grade II listed gazebo, dated from the 16th or 17th century, square in shape and built with course squared stone, with internal plaster decorations and a pyramidical roof.
ENVIRONS
Myddelton Lodge commands a spectacular south facing position across the valley, overlooking Ilkley and Ilkley Moor. Surrounded by beautiful Wharfedale countryside, this prestigious house is on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There is excellent walking and direct access to horseriding bridleways across the surrounding countryside.
The property is situated about a half-mile away from Ilkley’s thriving town centre, which offers comprehensive shops, restaurants, boutique cinema, cafes and everyday amenities including two supermarkets, a health centre, a playhouse and library.
In addition, there is an excellent range of highly regarded schools, both private and state, for children of all ages, including Ilkley Grammar School.Ilkley is well-placed for all of the principal Yorkshire business centres, including Leeds, Bradford and Harrogate. Road connections are excellent and frequent rail services run from Ilkley to Leeds and Bradford with train services from Leeds to London King’s Cross taking from 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Leeds Bradford international airport is around a 20 minute drive away.
SERVICES
Mains water and electricity, gas fired central heating and mains drainage.
LOCAL AUTHROITY
City of Bradford District Council.
TENURE
We are advised that the property is freehold and that vacant possession will be granted upon legal completion.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Easements, wayleaves and rights of way:
The property is offered for sale subject to and with the benefit of any rights of way, either public or private, all easements, wayleaves and other rights of way, whether they are referred to or not. No public rights of way cross the owned land.
History:
Positioned to the north of the Wharfe River, high above Ilkley and to the west of Middleton village, Myddelton Lodge originates from the 13th century. It was home to one of Ilkley’s most famous families, the Middletons, for centuries. They sustained the Catholic faith in and around Ilkley, being recusants, meaning they held their faith in spite of hostile legislation and cruel repression. Often in danger of death and at great financial cost, the Middletons led and supported the Catholic community in Wharfedale during penal times. Benedictine chaplains resided at Myddelton Lodge and a chapel and school were provided. After Catholic Emancipation in 1829, the Middletons continued to support local Catholics and in 1879 endowed the Church of the Sacred Heart.
The Cross and Passion Fathers restored a Catholic presence at the Lodge in 1922 when it became St. Paul's Retreat. Until 1985 it was a seminary, a monastery and a retreat house. The Passionists also ministered to the parish of the English Martyrs in Addingham. The Sisters of the Cross and Passion had begun their ministry in Ilkley in 1899.
It was later sold to the Diocese of Leeds, who opened it as a pastoral centre. Neglected in the late 1990s, it was later restored to its former glory by private owners, which won a conservation award from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The current owners have sympathetically refurbished Myddelton Lodge since their ownership of the last 10 years.
In the field to the south of Myddelton Lodge, there are earthworks and the buried remains of Scalewra medieval settlement, along with part of the open field system linked to the settlement. Scalewra belonged to the Middleton township (with the other parish townships being Ilkley and Nesfield). By the middle of the 12th century the settlement was held by Hypollitus de Braham, an ancestor of the Middleton Family. Records show that Scalewra existed in 1456 but it is likely it was depopulated by the late 15th century.
DIRECTIONS
VIEWING ARRANGEMENTS
All viewings are strictly by appointment with the joint sole selling agents Knight Frank LLP or Croft Residential.
Marketed by: Croft, York
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.