Property description
Traditional family house with lovely south facing garden garden, paddock and rural views, situated in popular Moors village.
Entrance hall, cloakroom, utility room, kitchen, breakfast room, staircase hall, sitting room, dining room
Master bedroom with en suite shower room, 3 further bedrooms, house bathroom, access to loft storage
Gardens, paddock, barn, 2 garages
In all just under 2 acres
This is a handsome stone-built house of solid 1950s construction with a south east facing orientation and all main rooms on the ground and first floors enjoying plentiful natural light and facing the rear garden, paddock and rural views beyond. Gillamoor itself is a popular village on the fringe of the North York Moors.
* Traditionally built and extended stone house with nearly 2500 sq ft of accommodation
* Large triple aspect kitchen/breakfast/family room with handmade maple units by Cotteswood of Oxfordshire, granite worktops, a 4-oven Aga and solid cherry wood floor. Patio doors open on to the rear garden.
* Separate utility room with washer, dryer, fridge, Bosch freezer and pantry
* Large sitting room of some 400 sq ft with windows to three sides and a fireplace of old York clamps with solid elm mantle and ‘Thornton’ Dale multi-fuel burner. Patio doors to garden.
* Master bedroom suite with patio doors to south facing balcony
* Family bathroom with Villeroy and Boch oversized bath with digital waterfall shower over and underfloor heating
* Integral single garage suitable for conversion to bedroom 5/games room.
Outside
To the front is a landscaped garden with private drive and off street parking for multiple vehicles. The drive gives access to the single integral garage and detached double garage with staircase to loft. The garden itself wraps around three sides of the house, and has mature trees and shrubs, a pond with bridge over and a carved stone water feature. There is a small productive vegetable patch, two apple trees and a plum tree, a stone water trough with garden tap and two stone seats. To the rear are wonderful open views south across the paddock and beyond.
There is separate gated vehicular access to a field of approx 1.3 acres, enclosed by fencing, walls and hedgerows including hazel, cherry, myrobalan, wild pear and crab apple. Within the paddock is a magnificent stone built barn, of cavity wall construction, with two large arched entrances with cedar clad doors on steel frames. Glazed windows to one side have protective lockable cedar shutters.
1.7 acres
Environs
Gillamoor is a popular and thriving Moors village with a strong sense of community and superb walks in the vicinity. It shares facilities with the neighbouring twin village of Fadmoor, boasting a pub/restaurant, church, organic farm shop, village hall, all-weather tennis courts, sports pitches, children’s playground and well regarded primary school. Nearby is the market town of Kirkbymoorside with a range of shops. Helmsley lies some 15 minutes’ drive away and the village itself lies in the catchment for the excellent Ryedale School with its outstanding Ofsted rating.
Kirkbymoorside 2 miles, Helmsley 9 miles, York 30 miles. (Distances approximate)