House For Sale £180,000
Stones Cottage, Hebden Bridge Road
Oxenhope BD22 9QH
oir £180,000 freehold
Stones Cottage, a rural semi-detached two to three bedroom cottage, was built in 1878 from locally quarried stone, with high ceilings and big windows. At 1000ft above sea level it has uninterrupted countryside and moorland views on all sides, yet immediate road access to Hebden Bridge (5 miles), Oxenhope (1 mile), Haworth 2 miles, the Bronte Bus B3 and moorland walks and cycle rides all around.
The cottage has two bedrooms, a smaller study / dressing room, bathroom, fully equipped kitchen, large living room, cellar, porch, off-road parking for one car and a recently landscaped small garden. Interior doors are original stripped pine with brass doorknobs. Wide window sills, big windows and high ceilings give light and space.
Stones Cottage was rewired, internally insulated and replastered in 2004 and the electric heating system (underfloor heating to the ground floor with radiators upstairs) upgraded in 2013 to an eco-friendly biomass system run from Stones Cottage Farm next door with a back-up electric option. All windows (apart from porch) are triple glazed. There is no mains gas or mains sewerage.
Porch entrance
Double glazed entrance door, ceramic tile floor, radiator, lights for external lighting, double glazed windows, double glazed door to cottage kitchen:
Kitchen
5.5m x 1.7m / 18’2” x 5’6” (2m and 6’7” into sink area)
Underfloor heating, adjustable trickle fan, ceramic tiled floor, triple glazed window, 6 x double sockets plus electric cooker and fan wiring and under worktop appliance sockets. Electric unit. Pendant lights. Door down to cellar.
Solid oak worktops and oak storage shelves above black appliances and drawers. All appliances are A rated or above: Wired in electric double oven with two grills and induction hob, slimline dishwasher, washer-dryer, fridge-freezer. Pan shelves are fitted on either side of the cooker with fitted drawers below the worktop. Stainless steel freestanding sink, drainer and under sink shelf. White larder cupboard with sliding doors.
Living room
5.55m x 3.65m / 18’10” x 12’ into alcoves
Underfloor heating, pendant light, 5 x double sockets, wired fire alarm, triple glazed window with views to Leeming Reservoir, Haworth, Worth Valley, stone fireplace (quarried and cut from local stone) with lined chimney and Burley Debdale 4kw woodburning stove, double glazed door to garden.
Solid insulated floor is professionally fitted with Marmoleum: Linoleum from natural materials, sustainable, and one of the best floorings for underfloor heating.
Open wooden staircase to upstairs hall:
Wooden floors and all woodwork painted with Farrow & Ball Oval Room Blue. Walls are white throughout. Wired fire alarm. Doors to:
Bedroom one
3.96m x 2.74m / 13’ x 9’
Radiator, pendant light and wall light, 4 x double sockets, triple glazed window with views to Leeming Reservoir, Haworth, Worth Valley.
Bedroom two
2.9m x 2.7m / 9’6” x 8’10”
Radiator, pendant light, 2 x double sockets, triple glazed window with views to Leeming Reservoir, Haworth, Worth Valley.
Bedroom / study
2.54m x 1.5m / 8’4” x 5’ (at widest point)
Radiator, pendant light, 2 x double sockets, triple glazed window with moorland views.
Bathroom
3.16m x 1.5m / 10’4” x 5’
Half ceramic tiled bathroom, wired in adjustable trickle fan, spotlights, radiator, stainless steel wall towel rail, white bath with plumbed in overhead shower, pedestal lo-flush toilet, handwash basin set on wooden shelf, triple glazed window with moorland views.
Cellar
Cellar runs beneath half of the kitchen and living room with stone steps down. The walls have been cemented and the floor tiled. The cellar has the unvented water cylinder (bio-mass and immersion heated), and bio-mass (and secondary electric heating) controls. Original stone shelves provide storage.
Outside
Porch door to outside paved area with log-store, driveway access for Stones Cottage Farm (the driveway to Stones Cottage boundary is part of the freehold with right of way to next door) and access to road and to the side of the cottage where there is off-road parking for one car and garden access.
Recently landscaped garden with stone wall to the roadside with wood planter. Solid wood made-to-measure fencing encloses garden, and clematis, honeysuckle, hawthorn and dog rose climb up and round the structure. Raised patio, with fire pit and fitted wooden benches, overlooks the valley below. The garden has original stone paving and wrought iron gate and is planted with a variety of herbs with snowdrop and aconite bulbs as well asox-eye daisies and other wild flowers.
Stones Cottage information
Bradford council tax band B
Mains electric.
Mains water: Yorkshire Water metered.
Sewage to joint septic tank on Stones Cottage Farm property with current owner of Stones Cottage paying one third of the cost of emptying tank.
Heating and hot water
Bio-mass district heating scheme run by Stones Cottage Farm. Use is metered. The meter (owned by next door) is in the cellar and all the other controls etc are owned by Stones Cottage in the cellar.
Living room chimney is lined and fitted with a Burley Debdale 4kw woodburning stove (small and very efficient).
In 2004 50mm Kingspan insulation was fitted to all internal walls, ground floor and the roof insulated.
All windows are triple glazed.
Maintenance: The heating system was drained in early 2020, the underfloor heating adjusted.
Externally the roof, stonework, guttering and windows were subject to maintenance in early 2020. Roof, chimneys and most of stonework was deemed satisfactory while remedial work was carried out to clear and repair gutters, repair pointing above porch and apply lead across the join, and all windows were resealed.
Stones Cottage useful contacts
I use Anchor Logs and burn ash logs. Logs need to be spliced and dried well to burn efficiently. Website has prices. Free delivery. The woodburner manual is in kitchen drawer.
Yorkshire Water: Standing charge and charge per cubic metre used. The metre is read automatically annually and you are billed by monthly direct debit.
Metre and stop cock in kitchen behind open shelves next to the cooker.
Electricity: The electrical unit with meter is above the larder cupboard.
No mains gas.
All kitchen plumbing is easily accessible.
All appliance manuals are in the drawer. All kitchen appliances are just over two years old.
Communications: No TV aerials. There is phone/broadband connection to cottage but it is not active. As the cottage is rural wifi speeds are very slow even with superfast broadband packages. It is not far from a G4 mast so mobile phone is faster. I use mobile phone data for internet use (hotspotting to computers) and to watch Netflix as it’s faster. I use Giffgaff £20 monthly 80GB data, free calls and texts.
Food buying and deliveries (if lockdown!)
There is a basic Co-op in Oxenhope village and a very good Co-op in Hebden Bridge. Hebden also has Valley Organics and a farmer’s market. Big supermarkets are in Keighley.
Organic Pantry based in North Yorkshire supplies Valley Organics and also delivers to Stones Cottage. They grow fruit and vegetables and try to source as locally as possible. They also sell organic groceries. Free delivery. I get a Morrison’s and / or Waitrose delivery every month or so.
Oxenhope BD22 9QH
oir £180,000 freehold
Stones Cottage, a rural semi-detached two to three bedroom cottage, was built in 1878 from locally quarried stone, with high ceilings and big windows. At 1000ft above sea level it has uninterrupted countryside and moorland views on all sides, yet immediate road access to Hebden Bridge (5 miles), Oxenhope (1 mile), Haworth 2 miles, the Bronte Bus B3 and moorland walks and cycle rides all around.
The cottage has two bedrooms, a smaller study / dressing room, bathroom, fully equipped kitchen, large living room, cellar, porch, off-road parking for one car and a recently landscaped small garden. Interior doors are original stripped pine with brass doorknobs. Wide window sills, big windows and high ceilings give light and space.
Stones Cottage was rewired, internally insulated and replastered in 2004 and the electric heating system (underfloor heating to the ground floor with radiators upstairs) upgraded in 2013 to an eco-friendly biomass system run from Stones Cottage Farm next door with a back-up electric option. All windows (apart from porch) are triple glazed. There is no mains gas or mains sewerage.
Porch entrance
Double glazed entrance door, ceramic tile floor, radiator, lights for external lighting, double glazed windows, double glazed door to cottage kitchen:
Kitchen
5.5m x 1.7m / 18’2” x 5’6” (2m and 6’7” into sink area)
Underfloor heating, adjustable trickle fan, ceramic tiled floor, triple glazed window, 6 x double sockets plus electric cooker and fan wiring and under worktop appliance sockets. Electric unit. Pendant lights. Door down to cellar.
Solid oak worktops and oak storage shelves above black appliances and drawers. All appliances are A rated or above: Wired in electric double oven with two grills and induction hob, slimline dishwasher, washer-dryer, fridge-freezer. Pan shelves are fitted on either side of the cooker with fitted drawers below the worktop. Stainless steel freestanding sink, drainer and under sink shelf. White larder cupboard with sliding doors.
Living room
5.55m x 3.65m / 18’10” x 12’ into alcoves
Underfloor heating, pendant light, 5 x double sockets, wired fire alarm, triple glazed window with views to Leeming Reservoir, Haworth, Worth Valley, stone fireplace (quarried and cut from local stone) with lined chimney and Burley Debdale 4kw woodburning stove, double glazed door to garden.
Solid insulated floor is professionally fitted with Marmoleum: Linoleum from natural materials, sustainable, and one of the best floorings for underfloor heating.
Open wooden staircase to upstairs hall:
Wooden floors and all woodwork painted with Farrow & Ball Oval Room Blue. Walls are white throughout. Wired fire alarm. Doors to:
Bedroom one
3.96m x 2.74m / 13’ x 9’
Radiator, pendant light and wall light, 4 x double sockets, triple glazed window with views to Leeming Reservoir, Haworth, Worth Valley.
Bedroom two
2.9m x 2.7m / 9’6” x 8’10”
Radiator, pendant light, 2 x double sockets, triple glazed window with views to Leeming Reservoir, Haworth, Worth Valley.
Bedroom / study
2.54m x 1.5m / 8’4” x 5’ (at widest point)
Radiator, pendant light, 2 x double sockets, triple glazed window with moorland views.
Bathroom
3.16m x 1.5m / 10’4” x 5’
Half ceramic tiled bathroom, wired in adjustable trickle fan, spotlights, radiator, stainless steel wall towel rail, white bath with plumbed in overhead shower, pedestal lo-flush toilet, handwash basin set on wooden shelf, triple glazed window with moorland views.
Cellar
Cellar runs beneath half of the kitchen and living room with stone steps down. The walls have been cemented and the floor tiled. The cellar has the unvented water cylinder (bio-mass and immersion heated), and bio-mass (and secondary electric heating) controls. Original stone shelves provide storage.
Outside
Porch door to outside paved area with log-store, driveway access for Stones Cottage Farm (the driveway to Stones Cottage boundary is part of the freehold with right of way to next door) and access to road and to the side of the cottage where there is off-road parking for one car and garden access.
Recently landscaped garden with stone wall to the roadside with wood planter. Solid wood made-to-measure fencing encloses garden, and clematis, honeysuckle, hawthorn and dog rose climb up and round the structure. Raised patio, with fire pit and fitted wooden benches, overlooks the valley below. The garden has original stone paving and wrought iron gate and is planted with a variety of herbs with snowdrop and aconite bulbs as well asox-eye daisies and other wild flowers.
Stones Cottage information
Bradford council tax band B
Mains electric.
Mains water: Yorkshire Water metered.
Sewage to joint septic tank on Stones Cottage Farm property with current owner of Stones Cottage paying one third of the cost of emptying tank.
Heating and hot water
Bio-mass district heating scheme run by Stones Cottage Farm. Use is metered. The meter (owned by next door) is in the cellar and all the other controls etc are owned by Stones Cottage in the cellar.
Living room chimney is lined and fitted with a Burley Debdale 4kw woodburning stove (small and very efficient).
In 2004 50mm Kingspan insulation was fitted to all internal walls, ground floor and the roof insulated.
All windows are triple glazed.
Maintenance: The heating system was drained in early 2020, the underfloor heating adjusted.
Externally the roof, stonework, guttering and windows were subject to maintenance in early 2020. Roof, chimneys and most of stonework was deemed satisfactory while remedial work was carried out to clear and repair gutters, repair pointing above porch and apply lead across the join, and all windows were resealed.
Stones Cottage useful contacts
I use Anchor Logs and burn ash logs. Logs need to be spliced and dried well to burn efficiently. Website has prices. Free delivery. The woodburner manual is in kitchen drawer.
Yorkshire Water: Standing charge and charge per cubic metre used. The metre is read automatically annually and you are billed by monthly direct debit.
Metre and stop cock in kitchen behind open shelves next to the cooker.
Electricity: The electrical unit with meter is above the larder cupboard.
No mains gas.
All kitchen plumbing is easily accessible.
All appliance manuals are in the drawer. All kitchen appliances are just over two years old.
Communications: No TV aerials. There is phone/broadband connection to cottage but it is not active. As the cottage is rural wifi speeds are very slow even with superfast broadband packages. It is not far from a G4 mast so mobile phone is faster. I use mobile phone data for internet use (hotspotting to computers) and to watch Netflix as it’s faster. I use Giffgaff £20 monthly 80GB data, free calls and texts.
Food buying and deliveries (if lockdown!)
There is a basic Co-op in Oxenhope village and a very good Co-op in Hebden Bridge. Hebden also has Valley Organics and a farmer’s market. Big supermarkets are in Keighley.
Organic Pantry based in North Yorkshire supplies Valley Organics and also delivers to Stones Cottage. They grow fruit and vegetables and try to source as locally as possible. They also sell organic groceries. Free delivery. I get a Morrison’s and / or Waitrose delivery every month or so.
