House For Sale £460,000
Mart Farm, Hellifield

Mart Farm is a deceptively spacious period property offering family size living accommodation, set in delightful and generous sized gardens. Offering high levels of privacy, and with a pleasant outlook onto the church. With parking for at least eight vehicles plus a detached double garage, two large stores / workshops, and an external WC.

The property boasts a farmhouse living-dining-kitchen, utility room, living room with inglenook, reception hall, and to the first floor three double bedrooms, a good sized single bedroom, house bathroom, and en suite to the principal bedroom.

The property in brief: -

Approached from the substantial driveway and parking areas, a reception hall leads past a utility room with fitted cupboards, WC, and housing the properties hot water and heating boiler, into a spacious living-dining-kitchen. To the kitchen end, windows look out onto the attractive gardens, and with a range of high-quality shaker-style base and wall units including illuminated display cupboards and under pelmet lighting, and with contrasting 40mm granite-effect worktops. The central feature to the kitchen is a gas fired AGA with twin ovens and twin hot plates. Integrated appliances include a fridge, freezer, and a dishwasher.

The whole of this open-plan space has Karndean flooring, and with the dining area having ample space for an eight person dining suite. The living area is adjacent to a gas-fired coal-effect stove fire, and with a space for a sofa and chairs, looking out onto the attractive front gardens through a double glazed bay window, with a window seat below.

Off from the living area there is an entrance lobby giving boot room/ coat hanging space, and access to the front door. A spacious inner reception hall has a door onto the parking apron and outhouses, and stairs rise to the first floor, with storage cupboards below. A cosy and charming sitting room features a superb inglenook fireplace with stone hearth, encompassing a multi-fuel stove. With display shelving to one side, and dual aspect windows looking out onto the gardens.

To the first floor, a staircase with return balustrade opens onto a spacious landing with a window for natural light, and a loft hatch to the roof space. The Principal bedroom is of excellent proportions and features 2 windows looking out onto the front gardens and down the village, a built-in single wardrobe, built-in double wardrobe, and en-suite shower room with WC, wash basin and shower enclosure. Bedroom 2 also at the front of the property, has a pleasant outlook over the front gardens, and currently set up as a good sized twin bedroom. Bedroom 3 is a further double with a pair of windows looking out onto the rear gardens and yarden. Bedroom 4 is a decent sized single bedroom, currently set up as a home office, with a delightful outlook across the road onto the church. The house bathroom features a full size bath, wash basin, WC, fitted linen cupboard, and a large window for good natural light and ventilation.

To the outside, a six bar farm gate leads off the cobbled driveway approach, onto a large tarmacadam apron offering parking for up to 8 vehicles. Also giving access to a detached double garage with power, lighting and water, and with a greenhouse and stone patio area. A stone built detached building provides a substantial woodstore / workshop, a further larger workshop / potting shed, and a gardeners WC. Walking to the side of the house a private and substantial lawned garden with specimen trees and shrubs and a laurel hedge, runs down through a stone arched walkway to the front gardens. The front garden with evergreen hedging again providing privacy and an attractive boundary, features a lawn area and Yorkshire stone flagged alfresco dining and sitting areas. Having an attractive well stocked raised border, and with views onto the church.

In the Domesday Book, Hellifield is mentioned as Helgeflet; meaning 'Holy Marsh or Stream', translated from Saxon, the village also could have been dedicated to the Saxon Goddess 'Hel' Hellifield nestles on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is surrounded by rolling hills, dry stone walls and agricultural land. Hellifield is within a 15-minute drive to the larger market towns of Settle & Skipton, about 45 minutes to the Lake District and an hour to Manchester. The village boasts a Train Station (direct trains to Leeds, Carlisle and Morecambe), General Store, Primary School, Public House, Butchers and Chippy!