Detached house for sale in Kirby Hill, Boroughbridge, York, North Yorkshire YO51

The sale of Grange Farmhouse offers a rare opportunity to acquire a significant village dwelling with tremendous scope to renovate and create a lovely family home. Alternatively, there may be the possibility of residential development on the site subject to obtaining the necessary planning approval. The vendors have not made any approaches to the local planning authorities and conditional offers for the property wouldn’t be considered in this instance.

Kirby Hill is a conveniently located village just 1½ miles north of the market town of Boroughbridge. The village has a primary school, church and pub with a much wider choice of amenities and facilities in Boroughbridge itself. There is ready access onto the A1(M) providing easy access to principal Yorkshire centres and for travel further afield.

The accommodation briefly includes a spacious reception hall with access down to a storage cellar and there are three reception rooms together with a breakfast kitchen, large pantry and utility room at ground floor level. There are two separate staircases leading up to the first floor where there is a principal bedroom with en suite shower room, three further bedrooms, study/bedroom 5 and a house bathroom.

Outside there are two separate vehicular accesses from Leeming Lane providing off street parking and there are two brick outbuildings and space for a garage if required, subject to planning.

The house sits in quite a generous enclosed plot with principally lawned gardens to the rear with boundary walls and mature trees affording a good degree of privacy.

Development opportunties

Clearly the property is in need of significant modernisation, However, if demolished, there would be sufficient scope for 2 new detached houses with there being 2 vehicular accesses. Alternatively, a terrace of 3 or 4 houses may be appropriate. Any such development will be subject to planning approval.