Houses & Estates

Regency Country House, North Cumbria

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Guide Price £1,000,000

A fine Grade II Listed Country House with garden grounds and views to Lakeland fells

A delightful Regency country house with Victorian extensions providing substantial period accommodation in a "horseshoe" layout to a walled court.

Of historical association, Gladstone was entertained in this house, and ownership of the property has been with the same family for the past sixty years, providing a rare opportunity to purchase a traditional family home.

The property has a wealth of period details, including wrought iron balcony over Ionic entrance porch, an apsidal semicircular cantilever staircase, a decorative round arch staircase window, a fully shelved Victorian library, and decorative plasterwork, sash windows and panelled shutters throughout.

Accommodation is over four floors and briefly comprises: portico, entrance vestibule, staircase hall, drawing room, living room/dining room, library, kitchen, preparatory kitchen/pantry, billiard room/reception hall, twelve bedrooms, five bathrooms/dressing rooms, secondary stairs, two conservatories, porch, cellars.

The extensive cellars have internal stair access and a separate courtyard entrance.

Pillared entrance and sweeping rhododendron drive.

Outhouse, tank room, walled garaging area, ample parking.

Landscaped garden grounds with mature and specimen trees.

Approx. 3 acres.

The property occupies an attractive rural position on the edge of a small village and is ideally located for the M6 motorway and Carlisle Airport.

This is a Discreet Sale - further information will be provided to qualified parties.

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