5 bedroom semi-detached house for sale

An impressive Georgian house situated in the popular village of Green Hammerton, particularly well placed for access to York and Harrogate

Description

A superb Georgian village house with later Victorian additions, Watt House is situated in the popular village of Green Hammerton, extremely well placed for access to both York and Harrogate.

Set back from the road beside the village green, this attractive property offers an extremely spacious and well planned accommodation. The current vendors have made a number of improvements to the property during their ownership to make the most of the space and create a beautiful family home that works well for modern living, whilst still incorporating the property's many period features.

A large open-plan kitchen-sitting room has been created with dual aspect windows looking over the village green and across the garden to the rear. The kitchen has plenty of built in units under granite worktops, an oil fired Aga and central island unit. The adjoining family room features a multi-fuel stove and large bay window with views over the village green. A door from the kitchen leads to the boot room and WC.

Continuing through the ground floor there is a nicely proportioned dining room with a gas real flame effect fire and built in shelves on one side. There is also a good-sized sitting room with a log burning stove, underfloor heating and French doors to garden. Behind this is a fifth bedroom, complete with en suite bathroom, utility room and direct access to the garden. This area has potential to be made into a self-contained annex if desired.

The first floor has four double bedrooms and a study, served by two house bathrooms. The principal bedroom is of particularly generous proportions and benefits from a walk-in dressing room. A pull down staircase gives direct access to the loft space with Velux window, currently used as a home office.

To the rear of the property there is a beautiful private garden with central lawn and planted borders, flanked by mature trees and hedges and bordered by a high brick wall on three sides. Close to the house is a patio area ideal for alfresco dining and to one side is a productive vegetable garden. On the opposite side there is a brick built garage with electric car charging point and cobbled driveway, providing parking for up to three cars.

Location

Green Hammerton is a sought-after village which lies midway between York (10 miles) and Harrogate (12 miles) with easy access to the motorway network from Junction 47 of the A1 to the west. Leeds city centre is 25 miles distant.

Hammerton railway station is 1.5m away providing regular trains to York, Harrogate and Leeds.

The village has a range of amenities including a church, public house, post office with shop and cafe, doctor’s surgery, primary school (Ofsted Good 2019), sports field, a modern and active village hall with playground, hosting a number of clubs and groups. There is a local cricket and junior football club.

The nearest secondary schools within 6.5 miles are Wetherby High School (Ofsted Good 2019), King James’s School, Knaresborough (Ofsted Good 2012) and Manor C of E Academy at Poppleton (7 miles).

Independent schools within the area are Queen Ethelburga’s College (3 miles), Cundall Manor (13 miles) with further schools in York: Bootham, The Mount and St. Peter’s.

York city boasts excellent restaurants including the award winning The Star Inn the City by Andrew Pern and the Michelin-starred restaurant, Roots, by Tommy Banks. In addition, there is Skosh by Neil Bentinck which also boasts a Michelin-star, positioned on popular Micklegate, which is approximately half a mile away and has a number of independent shops, pubs, cafes and hairdressers. There are a number of supermarkets in and around the city, including a Waitrose at Foss Islands Road and a large Marks and Spencer at the Vanguard Shopping Park.

York railway station has regular services to major cities including Manchester, Edinburgh and London with some journeys taking less than two hours to Kings Cross.

Harrogate town centre has an impressive range of amenities and facilities, including a train station with regular services to Leeds and York which in turn have direct access to London, Kings Cross.

Please note all distances are approximate.

Square Footage: 3,219 sq ft