Property description

Period farmhouse with cottage and 2.3 acres in a delightful rural setting2 miles form Easingwold.

Double entrance hall, cloakroom, WC, drawing room, dining room, breakfast kitchen, family room, larder, utility, master bedroom with separate dressing room, 3 further bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, further dressing room, annexed first floor bedroom/playroom with en suite shower room
Store rooms, changing room, gardeners’ WC, pump room
The Cottage with sitting room, bedroom area, kitchen, bathroom
Garage/tractor store, kennels, 4-bay garage, field shelter, indoor swimming pool
Gardens and grounds including 2 paddocks, woodland, wildlife pond
In all approximately 2.3 acres

Freehold for sale

Rookery House, Rookery Lane, Crayke, York YO61 4TN

Rookery House is an attractive period farmhouse which stands in a particularly pretty stretch of undulating countryside between the ancient hilltop village of Crayke and the Georgian market town of Easingwold. The house has a long approach and is surrounded by its own extensive mature gardens and grounds. Dating from the early 18th century it has been sympathetically extended and reconfigured, successfully linking the principal house to the various outbuildings and creating a substantial family house in the process.

•Early 18th century farmhouse
•Double height entrance hall
•28’ triple aspect drawing room with French doors facing south to a sun terrace
•Well-equipped farmhouse kitchen designed by Peter Thompson of York
•Good proportions, versatile space and potential to create a 5th bedroom
•Self-contained 1 bedroom cottage and guest annexe accommodation
•Indoor swimming pool
•Equestrian facilities: stable block, loose boxes, paddocks, field shelter

Outside
The house is approached from an adopted no through road and via a gated entrance which leads onto a well maintained tarmac driveway, flanked on one side by woodland and by a fenced paddock on the other. The driveway descends down a slight hill passing a pretty spring fed wildlife pond, rising again towards a large turning circle with lawned centre alongside the house, cottage and outbuildings. The driveway continues around to the rear of the cottage to a large parking area with a freestanding Goodrick stable block containing three loose boxes on one side and a 4-bay garage block directly ahead. Behind this is a large block built barn housing an indoor swimming pool (approximately 10m x 5m) with patio doors and windows opening onto the gardens.

The gardens lie predominantly to the south and west of the house, laid mainly to lawn and bound by mature hedging, dotted with clusters of specimen trees. They are perhaps best enjoyed from a number of stone terraces which flank the house, providing elevated views of not just the gardens but also the surrounding countryside which is undoubtedly some of the most picturesque in North Yorkshire.

In addition to the formal gardens, there is a wonderful wooded area which is a haven for local wildlife, as well as two separate paddocks, each around an acre, both with gated entrances, fenced and hedged boundaries, one with a useful field shelter.

Environs
The nearby village of Crayke has an outstanding primary school and an award-winning gastro pub, The Durham Ox. There is also a modern sports and social club and neighbouring cricket field. The more substantial Georgian market town of Easingwold is just a short drive away, providing a much more extensive range of independent shops and amenities, as well as easy access to the A19 and York to the south.

Easingwold 2 miles, Helmsley 12½ miles, York 15 miles (Distances approximate)

Directions
From the Market Place in Easingwold, continue along Spring Street which becomes Uppleby and then Mill Lane. After approximately 2 miles turn left into Rookery Lane, then immediately left for Rookery House.

Local authority
Hambleton District 01609 779977

Services
Mains water and electricity and private drainage, oil fired central heating