Property description
Magnificent country house of 5500 sq ft with gardens and land.
Principal house: entrance hall, cloakroom, study, drawing room, magnificent dining kitchen, conservatory, 50ft games room with bar and space for full size billiards table, library, boot room, laundry, larder, log store. Master bedroom suite with luxury bathroom and dressing room, 3 further bedrooms, family bathroom. Self-contained guest suite with independent access
4-bay garaging, general store/freezer room
Superbly planted formal gardens, level land with woodland and lake, summerhouse, orchards and kitchen garden, over 7,500 sqft general purpose buildings
Wykeham Farm, Old Malton, North Yorkshire YO17 6RF
The property dates from the late 18th century, built mainly of local stone and comprehensively modernised and extended by the present owners. It offers extremely spacious family accommodation of almost 5500 sq ft, finished to a contemporary and eye-catching standard. The build quality is superb, with underfloor heating to flagged or close boarded floors, bespoke joinery, automatic lighting sensors, open fire places and traditional double glazed sash windows.
The property lies at the end of a quiet country lane surrounded by its own very private gardens and beautifully maintained grounds.With separate access is the secured yard with over 7500 sq ft of general purpose buildings with many uses, included in the sale.
- Superb and very private family house and grounds
- Guest suite and separate entrance
- Access via a long country lane and private electric gates
- 600 sq ft kitchen with granite finish and AIMS Aga with module
- Underfloor heating to ground floor, sealed unit glazing and panelled doors
- Principal bedroom with fitted furniture, dressing room and bathroom
- Glorious Ryedale location with views to the Yorkshire Wolds and North York Moors
- Very convenient for Malton, Pickering and York
Outside
Electric double gates in a tall thorn hedge access the gravelled drive which leads up to the house. There are immaculately tended lawns and herbaceous borders, clipped box hedge and a sheltered sitting area with high mellow brick walls. The drive widens in front of the 4-bay parking and lockable store/freezer room.
On the west side of the house is a flagged sun terrace behind a low box hedge, a further swathe of lawns, colourful herbaceous borders and openings in taller hedging into the land. Mainly grassed and with recent extensive hardwood plantings, the land is level, and has a chicken run, kitchen garden with soft fruit in raised beds, and a lake with bull rushes and yellow flag irises.
Lot One: House, buildings, gardens and grounds, in over 8 acres. Guide price £1,750,000
Lot Two: Grassland and Ox-bow lake, in nearly 11 acres. Guide price £100,000
Lot Three: 7.51 acre arable field. Guide price: £60,000
Lot Four: 56.14 acres arable land, building, pond, grasses and river frontage. Guide price £400,000
Environs
Wykeham Farm lies off the A169 north of Malton. From here access is easy north to Pickering and the Moors, a few minutes into Malton itself, and via A64 to York and Leeds. Local facilities are excellent: Malton is a busy and friendly market town with a broad range of shops and facilities, a cottage hospital and a mainline connection to the East Coast line from York to Kings Cross.
York 20 miles, Malton 2 miles, Pickering 6 miles, Leeds Bradford airport about one hour.
Services
Mains water and electricity is provided to the properties and drainage is to a private system.
Local Authority
Ryedale District 01653 600666
Directions
The entrance to Wykeham Farm is off the A169 Malton to Pickering Road about ¾ mile north of the Malton bypass.