House For Sale £509,950
Turnpike, Newchurch, Rawtenstall, BB4

A rare opportunity to purchase large Victorian family home, with an abundance of period features, including a delightful, detached Victorian out-building with stained glass windows and period fireplace. Accommodation flows over four levels including large cellars with two windows, and original stone sinks. The ground floor features an original, stained glass front door, porch and hallway with period floor tiles, Period coving, picture rails and skirting flow throughout the ground floor and some other rooms. There are two generous reception rooms including a bay-fronted lounge, large twin aspect living room, each with feature fireplaces, and with French door to the rear. The large kitchen diner features some fitted storage with space and plumbing for appliances and room for a large family dining table. There is a pantry at the rear and a ground floor W.C, which is currently accessed externally, with potential to incorporate.

The first-floor features three large double bedrooms, and a family bathroom and stairs off the landing, lead to a fourth, large double bedroom on the top floor, with en-suite shower room, dormer window and eaves storage.

This stunning property is ideally suited to a discerning buyer with a keen, interior designer’s eye, who can work with the existing Victorian features and make this property their own.
Situated close to the highly regarded Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School, you are within a mile or Rawtenstall’s bustling town centre, a little further to connect with the A56 and M66 for Manchester and Waterfoot village centre and the countryside are both on your doorstep. Sold with no vendor chain, call the Ryder & Dutton Rawtenstall office to arrange a viewing. EPC:TBC

A large, period family home, with four floors of accommodation plus a detached, Victorian out-building, a long driveway and lawn gardens to the side; all sold with no vendor chain. Situated on an imposing, elevated plot with tiered front gardens above Turnpike, in Newchurch, this property is nestled between Waterfoot village and Rawtenstall’s vibrant town centre, with the countryside on your doorstep and excellent accessibility to the M66 for Manchester.

Period features start at the delightful, period front door, with stained glass windows, leading into the porch, from where a further wooden door with stained glass windows inset and on each side, lead into the wide entrance hallway, which features original tiled flooring, coving, skirting and picture rails, features which are replicated in both of the large living rooms. A grand bay fronted lounge provides excellent views from this high, vantage point and allows natural light to flood into the room, with a stunning tiled fire-place with grand, marblesque surrounds.

The rear reception room, also features a grand fire-place and enjoys dual aspects with two side windows and French doors onto the rear patio, with high ceilings and period features across the room. To the rear of the property is a large, 200sqft kitchen-dining room, with a collection of fitted cupboards, with space and plumbing for appliances and a pantry to the rear and ample space for a large, family dining table. There is a side window and door, leading to the rear patio, where an externally accessed W.C, can be found, with potential to incorporate this into an internally accessed, ground floor washroom.

Off the entrance hall, a fitted cupboard houses a Worcester combination boiler and a door leads to stairs down to the cellars. A small chamber with side windows and housing a modern, flick-switch style consumer unit has an open door, leading to a large, bay-fronted main chamber, with a front window and currently retaining the original stone sinks, plus further corridor storage.

The first-floor landing has a side window and gives access to three large bedrooms, ranging from 180sqft, to 220sqft plus a family bathroom. Bedroom one is the largest bedroom of the three and is situated centrally with dual aspects, a fire-place and period coving, skirting and picture rails. Bedroom two is a front aspect, 200sqft bedroom, with twin, arched windows giving superb valley views and boasting large period skirting boards, coving and picture rails. Bedroom three is the large double room at the rear and features two side windows. At the front of the property off the landing is the family bathroom, with twin arched windows to match bedroom two. There is a bath, W.C, and pedestal wash hand basin and tiled walls.

A set of stairs off the landing leads to the top floor, with useful built in storage off the landing mid-flight. A small landing then gives access to the fourth bedroom, a 190sqt double, with dormer window, a series of three south-facing skylights and an en-quite shower room with further skylight and extensive eaves storage just off.

A rare opportunity to purchase a period property with high ceiling, large rooms and Victorian features, in this sought-after location. Call our Rawtenstall, Bank Street office to arrange a viewing.

From the Rawtenstall office, turn left onto Bank St, right onto Newchurch Road and proceed for one mile, passing Marl Pits Leisure Centre and the Red Lion en-route to the top of hills and into Newchurch, where Newchurch Road becomes Church Street. As the road descends pass St Peter's Church on the right and then the turning for Old Street and Holly Bank is a short distance along on the right, set-back and elevated on a prominent plot.

This property is connected to main services.