Property description
This charming period five bedroom family home offers excellent scope for improvement and enjoys a private setting with attractive gardens on the fringe of this well-placed lower dales village.
NO CHAIN.
This is an excellent opportunity for those purchasers seeking a five bedroom period house, believed to date back in part to the 18th Century, and offering scope to put their own stamp on by doing work to update, and thereby maximising it's full potential. The White House affords many individual and character features and flexible accommodation. These features include some leaded windows, fireplaces, some pine floorboards, exposed beams, panelled internal doors, original cupboards etc. Further advantages are security system, double garage, outhouses, courtyard garden to the rear and walled west facing garden to the front, affording some privacy.
Markington is a mid-sized village approximately four miles from the historic City of Ripon and eight miles from the spa town of Harrogate. Amenities include an excellent primary school identified as a particularly successful school with an outstanding Ofsted report, two Village Inns, Parish Church, recreational facilities etc. The Cathedral City of Ripon offers a variety of shopping and recreational facilities and excellent schools notably Ripon Grammar. Now by-passed, it is ideally placed for commuting to the major business centres of West Yorkshire and Teesside and the acclaimed A1/M1 link road making areas further afield more accessible. Other facilities include the refurbishment of the Canal Basin and Marina, Ripon Spa Baths, Leisure Centre and Racecourse, and it is central to the Yorkshire Dales and Moors
| GROUND FLOOR |
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| Entrance: | Via double French doors leading into: -
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| Hall/Dining room: | Window overlooking the front garden. Central stone feature fireplace housing cast-iron multi-fuel stove. Small pine doored cupboard. Exposed beam. Telephone point. Two wall light points. Stairs leading to the first floor.
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| Family/Sitting room: | French doors leading to the walled front garden and window to the side elevation. Central feature fireplace with pine surround tiled insert and hearth and open fire. Exposed beam. Built in cupboard providing useful storage. Two wall light points
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| Lounge/Dining room: | Two windows overlooking the front garden, one leaded, and one with seat French doors to the Breakfast kitchen and rear hallway. Exposed beamed ceiling. Central feature arched stone fireplace suitable for open fires. .
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| Rear hall: | Double, French doors to the rear courtyard. Pine floorboards.
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| Cloakroom/w.c: | Two piece, white suite comprising low-level W.C., and pedestal wash-hand basin. Pine floorboards.
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| Breakfast kitchen: | Three windows to the rear elevation, overlooking the courtyard, and French door leading to the same. Pine base unit comprising drawers and cupboards and having tiled top and double bowl, stainless sink unit. Two, built in triple pine cupboards into chimney recesses, providing useful storage. Cream, solid -fuel fired Aga. Clothes airer. Plumbing for washing machine and dishwasher. Electric cooker point.
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| Inner hall: | Borrowed light to kitchen. Burglar alarm keypad.
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| FIRST FLOOR |
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| Landing: | Velux roof light. Smoke alarm.
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| Bedroom 1: | Window to the front elevation enjoying superb open view over the adjoining countryside. A range of built in wardrobes along one wall providing hanging space and shelves. Telephone point. Burglar alarm keypad.
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| Bedroom 2: | Window to the front elevation enjoying superb open view over the adjoining countryside.
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| Bedroom 3: | Window to the rear elevation. Ceiling coving. Access to roof void.
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| Bedroom 4: | Window to the front elevation. Fitted book/display shelves.
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| Bedroom 5: | Two windows to the rear elevation. Built in cupboard and fitted bookshelf.
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| House Bathroom: | Window to the rear elevation. Three piece original 'Art Deco' style white suite comprising cast-iron bath, pedestal wash-hand basin, low-level W.C. Contrasting ceramic wall tiles. Chrome taps/fittings including heated towel rail. Double, built-in airing cupboard housing lagged hot water tank and linen shelves. Two built in .medicine/toiletries cupboard.
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| Shower room: | Two piece suite comprising white pedestal wash hand basin and walk in tiled shower cubicle with plumbed shower cubicle with plumbed shower. Chrome taps and fittings. Electric light/shaver point.
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| Playroom/Studio: | A particularly flexible room which is ideal for a number of uses, having square bay window to the front. Exposed beams and trusses, fireplace with cast-iron multi-fuel stove and brick and timber hearth. Double French doors leading to a south facing, wrought iron balcony overlooking the court yard.
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| OUTSIDE | The property has vehicular access to the side leading to:-
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| Double garage: | Having folding timber doors with glazed lights. Light and power connected. Pedestrian access door leading to the courtyard.
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| Gardens: | To the front of the property is a west facing, walled garden affording a good degree of privacy. Principally laid to lawn with established flower borders. Stone flagged area to the front of the property. Pedestrian access gate. To the rear of the property is an enclosed courtyard again affording some privacy and paved for ease of maintenance.
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| Outbuildings: |
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| Outbuilding 1: | Workshop/Potting Shed having stone flagged floor and two windows to the front elevation.
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| Outbuilding 2: | Coal/Log store.
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| Outbuilding 3: | Open store/covered work area.
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| Outbuilding 4: | Boiler house.
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Property Features :
- 5 BEDROOMS
- ENTRANCE
- DINING ROOM
- FAMILY/SITTING ROOM
- LOUNGE
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