£1,075,000 /Sale price

Situated just over a mile from the centre of the award winning town of Kirkby Lonsdale yet with a picturesque rural setting, Pells Yeat Farm is a charming attached farmhouse and barn, set in delightful gardens and grounds. A much loved family home, it's now time for the next custodians to step forward to enjoy the country lifestyle that living at Pells Yeat Farm provides. Dating back to 1864 with an abundance of period features (flag floors, stone fireplaces with flag hearths, spice cupboard in the sitting room, stone benches in the pantry, beamed ceilings, exposed cruck beams, tongue and bead doors with Suffolk latches, mullion window in the utility/laundry room, an A Bell & Sons of Lancaster stove in the dining kitchen to name but a few), old and new are combined to create a spacious and instantly welcoming family home. Set over two floors with a gross internal area of 3554 sq ft (330.2 sq m) the accommodation has a lovely sociable flow of rooms and a versatile layout. Come on in and we'll walk you around... An enclosed porch leads into the large sitting room with fireplaces to both ends, one with a wood burning stove, the other with an open fire. The two spaces are divided by an attractive stone arch. Off the sitting room is the dining room/library - an atmospheric space with fitted bookshelves to one wall, attractive panelling to the ceiling and a seating area galleried to below and with doors out to a flagged seating terrace. A door leads into an inner hall with a cloakroom and access to the rear staircase. The cosy snug has an oak floor, sandstone fireplace and double doors out to the courtyard. Also off the sitting room is a second inner hall with understairs cupboard. At the heart of every home is the dining kitchen and here it won't disappoint. Split into two rooms with limestone tiled floor, the first provides space for a sofa along with a two oven cream Rayburn and a glazed door out to the garden. This room opens up to the main kitchen which is fitted with a range of base units and an island unit with granite worktops, twin Belfast sink, integral appliances including a dishwasher, refrigerator, a gas and electric four oven Aga and an open fire in the range. Double doors open out to the courtyard creating a wonderful space for entertaining family and friends in the warmer months. Backing up the kitchen is a utility/laundry room with decorative tiled window cill and space for an undercounter washing machine and tumble drier. There is also a practical boot room with Belfast sink, boiler and a shelved pantry with stone floor and benches. Work from home? Off the kitchen is an attached barn, which has been converted into a studio/home office. Being open to the apex this is a fabulous contemporary space with an oak floor, wood burning stove, mullion style windows overlooking the courtyard and a glazed door leading out to the courtyard. To complete the ground floor accommodation, and accessed externally, is a family room c. 227 sq ft (21.1 sq m) which has a number of other uses (cinema/TV room, hobby room, gym) with glazed doors and windows set into the original barn opening. This could be connected to the main house. The rear staircase leads to the generous principal bedroom which is open to the en suite bathroom - open to the apex, there are two skylight windows and window with full length seat to one wall allowing the natural light to flood in. The bathroom has storage cupboards as well as a bath and wash basin. The main staircase leads to a landing off which is the four piece house bathroom, two double bedrooms, one with a cast iron period fireplace and a single bedroom which leads through to a third double bedroom. Outside space Delightful gardens surround the property to three sides. To the south, there is a formal lawn garden with well-established borders, Hornbeam tunnel and a covered seating area. Enjoying splendid fell views, a perfectly positioned summerhouse (currently used as a studio) sits in an elevated position within the deciduous woodland shelter belt c. 1.78 acres (0.72 hectares) To the east, is a private flagged courtyard with pebble mosaic and rill. Two parcels of meadow/pasture land c. 2.85 acres (1.15 hectares) lie to the south east and south west - ideal for ponies, chickens or energetic children! In all c 4.99 acres (2.02 hectares).