A spacious four bedroom detached home full of character and with a fantastic layout perfect for modern lifestyles. The property has four double bedrooms including two with ensuites, a stunning house bathroom and with a cosy sitting room and open plan living kitchen is great for family living or for entertaining. The rear gardens are private and mainly lawned with an attractive paved seating area. Viewing is highly recommended.
GROUND FLOOR You are immediately struck by the character and quirky nature of this wonderful home when entering the hallway, having lovely stone flagged flooring, a coat cupboard, a switchback staircase up to the first floor, a downstairs WC and a tucked away study area leading through to the sitting room. The sitting room is to the front of the property and provides a lovely cosy area with wood effect flooring, an inglenook style fireplace with a stone hearth and surround with two double glazed sash windows to the front.
The heart of the home is found to the rear, with an open plan living kitchen. The kitchen itself has an electric aga surrounded by a range of shaker style base units with a work surface over and an upstand behind with space for a tall fridge freezer. There is also a central island with built in cupboards under, space for four stools and a dishwasher, plus a one and a half bowl sink with drainer. The living space has a picture window looking out to the paved seating area with the lawned garden beyond and is open to a dining room which has attractive anthracite bi fold doors opening out into the paved seating area with a door off leading through to a large utility room.
The utility room has a further range of base units with a store cupboard, space for a gas or electric cooker, washing machine and a tumble dryer and there is also a useful door out to the garden. Also off the kitchen is a great boot room having a tiled floor, built in cupboard and doors into the garage/store and to the rear garden. The front part of the house including the hall, sitting room and open plan living kitchen has the benefit of underfloor heating.
FIRST FLOOR To the first floor the galleried landing has exposed wood beams and a skylight and leads to all four double bedrooms and the house bathroom. The main bedroom is to the rear and has sash windows looking towards the gardens with a dressing area and ensuite which has underfloor heating and comprises of a walk in shower room with glazed screen, fixed and handheld shower heads, a low level WC and a wall mounted wash basin with tiled flooring and part tiled walls. Bedroom two is to the front of the house with exposed beams and a sash style window to the front and also has an ensuite having a step in shower with glazed screen and folding door, a pedestal mounted wash basin with tiled splashback and a corner WC.
Bedroom three is positioned over the garage and boot room and has a window to the front and a radiator. Bedroom four has a window to the side and a mezzanine level perfect for storage or for older children to have their own space with a difference. The lovely house bathroom has a four piece suite including a roll top bath with a handheld shower over, step in shower with fixed and handheld shower heads and a glazed screen, low level WC and a wash basin.
OUTSIDE To the front is a tarmac driveway providing off street parking for multiple cars with attractive paving to the garage and front door all with a fenced and walled boundary.
The rear garden has an attractive paved seating area looking out towards the lawned garden having a garden tap, outside power point, brick store and a raised flower bed with a railway sleeper border all enclosed with a walled boundary with a garden gate leading towards a vegetable garden and the main lawn. The vegetable garden has a garden shed and two raised beds, both with double height railway sleeper edging and a paved area around. Across from the vegetable garden is the screened oil tank and beyond is the lawned garden which has a paved path to one side, a range of young trees in a fenced off section and all with walled and hedged boundaries.
The garage/store houses the solar panel meters and Flomaster unvented hot water cylinder along with light and power points and timber doors to the front.
AGENTS NOTE The property has the benefit of solar panels. Further details on request.
LOCATION Carthorpe is a small village, which has a pub – The Fox and Hounds Inn and a Community Hall and is a civil parish in the Hambleton district.
It is located about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Bedale, which is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton. Listed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, markets have been held in the town since 1251 and the regular Tuesday market still takes place today. The town has a range of schooling opportunities for children up to the age of 16 years and also boasts a leisure centre with a swimming pool and gym, a football club, golf club and being the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales, there are plenty of scenic walks and country pursuits close by too. Bedale has excellent road links including the new bypass, and Junction 51 of the A1M providing easy access to the national motorway network. Other transport links close by are the main line railway station in Northallerton, Durham Tees Valley and Leeds Bradford airports are both within an hour's drive away.
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