Property description
A most distinguished Georgian town house with summer house, walled garden, garage andparking, situated a short walk from York city centre.
Entrance hall, dining room, kitchen and back kitchen, family room/library, cellars27’ first floor drawing room, guest bedroom with bathroom, bedroom 2 and cloakroom
Second floor principal bedroom with dressing room and bathroom, two further bedrooms andbathroom 3, attic
100’ rear garden, summer house/studio, double garage and gated parking for two more cars
No 8 Clifton is one of York’s most architecturally distinguished houses. Built in 1783and later extended, it has no fewer than four sash windows (shuttered, of course) acrossits splendid first floor drawing room, five bedrooms and three bathrooms. Add to this a100’ garden, double garage and extra parking, and you have the complete package, almostopposite St Peter’s School and a step from Bootham School.
•Grade II Listed Georgian town house (1792) with large garden and double garage
•Kitchen with gas-fired Aga, separate back kitchen and dining room
•Splendid first floor drawing room with four sash windows
•Principal bedroom with bathroom and dressing room en suite
•Four further bedrooms and two more bathrooms
•Long walled rear garden, double garage and extra parking
•Walking distance to York railway station
Outside
Access to the lovely rear garden is from both the rear hall and from the kitchen. Thegarden is walled; the flagged terrace nearest to the house has a central lawn and stepslead down through a demi-lune low wall to the larger area of lawn and flagged paths,edged with shrubs and including hydrangea petiolaris, hostas, spiraea, honeysuckle, wisteria androses.At the bottom of the garden is the brick-built summer house or garden room, and a walkbeyond leads to the double garage with electric door and additional parking. There isvehicular access from a shared lane with gates at the side of the house on Clifton.EnvironsClifton is one of the principal access routes into York and features a number ofdistinguished Georgian and Victorian houses. It is home to St Peter’s, St Olaves andBootham Schools, among the finest of the private schooling York has to offer. The Citycentre is a ten minute walk, as is the railway station.
York City centre ½ mile
Services
All mains services are connected and the house has a gas fired boiler.
Fixtures & fittings
Items mentioned in these details are included; other items may be separately available
Local authority
ity of York 01904 551550
Directions
The house is denoted by a For Sale board