Property description

The ultimate Georgian village house

Entrance and staircase halls, two cloakrooms, four reception rooms, study and breakfast kitchen, domestic offices, extensive cellars

Principal bedroom with bathroom, guest suite with bathroom and dressing room, three further bedrooms, sitting room/bedroom 6, family shower room

Detached cottage, walled and lawned south facing garden with orchard and vegetable plot, two storey barn with attached double garage, tennis court

In excess of 1.3 acres

Helperby is a large village bounded by the River Swale and situated roughly midway between Easingwold and Boroughbridge/A1. Parts of the village and much of the surrounding land remain in the ownership of the family who own the Estate, and this ensures that inappropriate local development has been resisted. The Old Brewery – and it is uncertain how long it has been since beer was made there – is a particularly fine Georgian house with some wonderful plasterwork, high ceilings, and many 16-pane sash windows (with original shutters) lending light to the principal rooms. Happy to relate, it is not a listed building.

Under the stewardship of the present owners the house, which extends to some 4500 sq ft, has been meticulously improved, with due deference to the character of the original. Thus there is a splendid modern kitchen with 4-oven Aga, contemporary bathrooms and fenestration renewed as appropriate, and the period fireplaces, ornate plasterwork, panelled doors and high ceilings are redolent of an earlier and more glamorous era.

The house has a separate cottage, barn and tennis court, and there was, in the past, planning permission for some residential development at the rear. This could perhaps be renewed should a future owner have such a requirement.


A distinguished and substantial Georgian village house c 4500 sq. ft

Breakfast kitchen with handbuilt units, integrated appliances and 4-oven Aga

Fireplaces, panelled doors, plasterwork and sash windows all retained

Extensive cellars, and domestic offices all grouped at the rear of the house

Fine cantilevered staircase and restored Georgian window

Detached one-bed cottage, barn with development potential

Walled and lawned garden with tennis court

NB: Google map images may not be current and are not necessarily a true representation


Outside
At the front of the house there is a deep cobbled area under a fine horse chestnut, and good off-street parking is provided. There are gates to both sides of the house with access along a gravelled drive which sweeps round the back of the house to a turning and parking area, and on up to the barn and garaging. On the south elevation is a flagged terrace accessed from the house, and the main south facing garden beyond is lawned and part walled with herbaceous borders and topiary plantings, spring bulbs including snow drops and aconites, and a fine magnolia.

The separate cottage has two rooms, kitchen and bathroom with electric panelled heating radiators, and the substantial brick barn is on two storeys, part storage and part traditional stalls with cobbled floors. Beyond is the tennis court, kitchen garden with box hedging, and orchard. 

Approx 1.32 acres 

Environs
Situated north of York and almost midway between the two market towns of Easingwold and Boroughbridge, Helperby is ideally located. It has its own butcher’s shop and bus, and there is a primary school in neighbouring Brafferton (walking distance). The local Comprehensive is in Easingwold, and Cundall Manor, minutes away, is a well supported private school, with other choices in York. The village has a cricket and football ground, Millennium village hall and mobile post office, and doctors’ surgery. 

York 16 miles, A1 5 miles, Leeds 33 miles. (Distances approximate)

Services
Mains water, electricity and drainage.

Fixtures and fittings  
Fitted carpets will be included and curtains, poles, any blinds and light fittings may be available.

Local authority
Hambleton District 01609 779977

Directions
The house is in the centre of the village and easily distinguished

Photographs & particulars 
January 2016