4 bedroom detached house

Wayside Cottage offers a rare opportunity to acquire a character home in this delightful village, between Ripon and Masham, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Recently extended, the property retains many of the original character features together with a high standard of modern appointment, creating a comfortable family home. There are lovely countryside walks quite literally on the doorstep.

Mickley is a pretty and picturesque village with tree lined main street at the eastern end of Wensleydale, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and Vale of York. Shopping facilities are available in the nearby and surrounding villages of West Tanfield and Kirkby Malzeard with more extensive facilities available in Ripon, Masham and Bedale. Mickley is also within the catchment area for Ripon Grammar School.

The accommodation briefly comprises an entrance vestibule opening into the sitting room with beamed ceiling, stone fireplace and log burner, in turn opening through into the garden room. The central living room also has a beamed ceiling and log burner and rear entrance vestibule and porch opening onto the garden. The modern
fitted dining kitchen is complemented by a feature Aga and there are French doors opening onto the rear garden. Off the kitchen is a fitted utility room with stable type door to the garden and a guest cloakroom.

At first floor level is a wide central landing with large linen cupboards and exposed roof trusses, principal bedroom with walk in wardrobe and an en suite shower room, three additional bedrooms and a refitted house shower room.

Outside, the property is approached through a five bar entrance gate down a long gravelled sweeping driveway into a forecourt providing ample parking for several vehicles and which in turn leads to a detached garage of matching construction to the extension. A feature of Wayside Cottage are the beautifully tended and
well stocked ‘cottage’ gardens of approximately ½ an acre bounded by open green belt countryside to the rear.