3 Bed House For Sale Longbridge Drive, York, YO61

Delightful stone cottage with garage, stables and land.

Rose Cottage is a charming crook-framed Yorkshire longhouse that is believed to date back to the 1700s. Sympathetically updated in recent years, it offers the advantage of modern fixtures alongside mellow beams, traditional cupboards and ledge and brace doors with ironmongery. This much-loved home is on the market for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Porch, staircase hall, 3 reception rooms, study, kitchen/dining room with pantry, utility room, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Garage, 3 stables, tack room, hay barn
Gardens, small paddock, field
In all some 4.9 acres

Additional Information - The cottage has been restored, renovated and recently updated: bespoke windows and doors were fitted in 2023 by Ryedale joinery and in 2012 a handmade kitchen was fitted within a remodelled, open plan kitchen/dining room.

A front porch opens to an entrance hall giving access to the house bathroom and dual aspect drawing room on the eastern wing of the house; together they could form a bedroom suite. The sitting room has a wood-burning stove housed in a stone fireplace with a flagstone hearth and a small flight of steps that ascend to the library with French doors onto the terrace and views up the garden. The superb family-sized kitchen/dining room has a north/south aspect and French doors opening onto the rear garden. It comfortably accommodates a big dining table and multiple seating areas; a side door leads to the study/studio with garden views. The handmade kitchen includes integrated appliances, a Butler sink, bespoke banquette seating and an electric Aga recessed with ornate tiles behind as well as a separate traditional pantry and a utility room. Upstairs the landing with skylight gives access to the shower room and three double bedrooms all of which have fitted wardrobes and rise into the roof space to provide good ceiling heights. Two have exposed beams and trusses. The principal bedroom is double aspect with wall-to-wall fitted wardrobes and windows facing south and east to catch the morning sun.

Outside - Rose Cottage enjoys a tranquil setting behind a well-established mixed hedge and pretty cottage garden. A garden path lined with spring bulbs leads from a rose arch to the front door. On the eastern boundary, a drive flanked by a mature beech hedge leads to the 36 ft-long detached stone garage with windows, up-and-over door and pantile roof. Immediately behind the house is a paved barbeque terrace and sheltered stretch of lawn with a lovely old willow and low stone wall, bounded at the far end by the stable block and barn with solar panels. Here are three stables and a tack room with power and light, and a hay barn adorned by a rambling clematis. A grassy track sweeps past the outbuildings to more pasture land. Here is the small paddock bounded by post and rail fencing, a water supply and small pond on the north east corner. Beyond lies a much larger field, also bounded by post and rail fencing. The land is ring fenced with woodland behind.

Environs - Easingwold 8 miles, Helmsley 11 miles, Malton 13 miles, York 14 miles

Rose Cottage lies in a quiet no-through lane in the heart of Skewsby. This charming rural hamlet lying due north of York in that pretty fold of country where the Howardian and Hambleton Hills rise from the Vale of York. The market towns of Easingwold and Malton are in easy reach, and nearby Stillington offers a range of facilities including a store/post office, two pubs, a doctors’ surgery and sports field. State schools include Stillington Primary School and Outwood Academy in Easingwold (Ofsted ‘Outstanding’) along with independent options such as Terrington Hall, Ampleforth College and all York schools.

General - EPC Rating: to come Council Tax: F
Services & Systems: Mains electricity and water. Oil central heating. Private drainage.
Fixtures & Fittings: Only those mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. All others, such as fitted carpets, curtains, light fittings, garden ornaments etc., are specifically excluded but may be made available by separate negotiation.
Viewing: Strictly by appointment
Local Authority: North Yorkshire Council AONB
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Directions: In the village take the only no-through road alongside the village notice board and the cottage can be found some 150 metres down on the the right hand side. ///elsewhere.boxer.combining

Photographs, particulars and showreel: March 2024
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