Property description

Grade II* Jacobean country house with equestrian facilities, cottage and land, located in glorious North Yorkshire countryside. The principal house has 9 bedrooms, the stable courtyard includes an indoor arena, there are beautiful gardens, parkland and pasture, all 15 miles north of York.

Principal house: Drawing room and dining room, library, music room, breakfast kitchen, family room, utility room, cloakroom First floor: Principal bedroom suite with bathroom en suite and dressing room, 4 further bedrooms, family bathroom Second floor: 2 guest bedrooms, bathroom. 2 further bedrooms, wet room. Up to 9 bedrooms in total

Cottage annexe: cottage with 1 bedroom, shower room en suite, open plan sitting room and kitchen

Stable courtyard: 9 loose boxes, tack rooms and stores, indoor arena, traditional open cart shed for 3 cars, office suite and games room/gym

Lawned gardens with ha-ha, tennis court, kitchen garden, parkland and pasture.

In all some 8 acres

Crayke Manor, Crayke, York, North Yorkshire YO61 4TT

History to modern day
Crayke Manor (formerly known as Wyndham Hall after its original owner, Thomas Wyndham) is one of North Yorkshire’s finest country houses. Listed Grade II*, being of special architectural and historical interest, the original house dates from the 17th century, with later additions, and is predominantly Jacobean in style, rare for this part of North Yorkshire. Attractive features of the late 16th and 17th century remain, including mullioned windows and leaded lights as well as magnificent oak panelling to the hall and main reception rooms. Some of this panelling is believed to be from the magnificent tudor mansion, Howley Hall, in West Yorkshire. Over the years the incumbent families have undertaken improvements yet restoration, the present owners being no exception: as part of a comprehensive and sensitive refurbishment programme, the house has been brought into the 21st century with Cat 5 wiring, an in-built Linn sound system as well as underfloor heating. Much of the refurbishment has incorporated reclaimed materials.

The Principal House
Crayke Manor has two points of access, front and rear, both with electric gates. The main drive sweeps up to the house past the parkland to the south and landscaped gardens to the side.

• Exceptionally rare restored Jacobean country house • Mullioned windows, panelled rooms and flagged floors
• Splendid family kitchen with Aga
• Up to nine bedrooms and four bathrooms
• Situated in glorious countryside and in the middle of its own land
• Stables, outbuildings, annexe and cottage
• Formal gardens, parkland and pasture

The house is offered for immediate occupation.

Outside
Electric gates in stone pillars access a sweeping tarmacadam drive which passes a buttressed ha-ha with a footbridge leading to a meadow with parkland trees. The drive passes by a magnificent copper beech, then the tennis court, and leads round to the rear under a spreading walnut and high holly hedge.
The outbuildings stand behind the house. A covered stable yard has eight loose boxes, feed store, tractor shed and further storage.

Cottage annexe
At one end of the outbuildings is the self-contained cottage annexe on two floors. This includes a modern equipped living kitchen and spiral staircase to the bedroom and contemporary shower room above. A further two storey range has open-bay storage and garaging beneath the party room/gym and office on its first floor. The whole of the rear access area is flagged in York stone and cobbles, and leads round to the broad terrace and box topiary in front of the house, whose elevations support white and purple wisteria. The southerly view is over sweeping lawns fringed by ash and cherry, and with a west facing herbaceous border, to the parkland beyond.

In all some 8 acres


Environs
Crayke lies at the edge of the most beautiful, undulating country at the foot of the Howardian Hills. This is the area where the Vale of York gives way to rolling, wooded terrain, and Crayke Manor occupies an enviable position outside the village on the Brandsby Road. The nearby village of Crayke supports an active local community with a Church, outstanding primary school, cricket club and the highly regarded Durham Ox public house. A more extensive range of shopping and recreational facilities is available at the nearby Georgian market town of Easingwold, and in York, from where the main line railway station has a regular service to London Kings Cross in a best time of 1 hour 45 minutes. Leeds Bradford Airport, with a wide international service, can be reached within the hour; indeed, all round, communications are excellent. For the sportsman there is superb shooting and fishing nearby, championship golf courses at Ganton and Fulford, and racing at nine courses throughout Yorkshire. Both private and state schooling abound, with Ampleforth College, Bootham School and St Peter’s in York and Queen Margaret’s at Escrick being the best known.

York 15 miles, Leeds 38 miles, Leeds Bradford Airport 40 miles, Easingwold 3 miles. (Distances approximate)

Tenure Freehold with vacant possession upon completion.

Method of Sale The Property is for sale by Private Treaty.

Services Mains water and electricity is provided to all the properties and drainage is to a private system

Local Authority Hambleton District Council 0845 1211 535

Rights of way The property is sold subject to existing rights of way, easements and wayleaves and the purchaser is invited to make any necessary enquiries in this regard

Directions From Crayke village take the Brandsby road and the entrance gates are on the left after about ½ mile Viewing All viewings will be conducted strictly by appointment with the vendors’

Property Features :

• Jacobean country house, rare in North Yorkshire
• Beautifully and sympathetically refurbished
• Situated in the middle of its own land
• Stables, outbuildings annexe and cottage
• Formal gardens, parkland and pasture