4 bed detached house for sale

Back Lane, Ripley, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3

Ripley is a traditional estate village with a variety of period houses, stone cottages and cobbled squares together with the renowned Ripley Castle, home of the Ingilby family for over 700 years. The village offers a good range of facilities including a hotel/public house, primary school, art gallery, church, cricket club, tennis court and a children’s playground. For the commuter, the village is well situated close to the A61, which provides good connections to the A1(M), A59 and further afield. A frequent bus service operates throughout the day to the nearby town of Harrogate and the city of Ripon.

The accommodation briefly comprises a spacious reception hall with a turned staircase leading up to a galleried landing, tiled flooring and a travertine tiled guest cloakroom and WC. The formal sitting room has a stone fireplace surround with marble hearth and living flame gas fire and an open arch leads through into a separate dining room with feature exposed beam and French doors opening into the side garden. A third reception/family room is at the front of the house. The fitted breakfast kitchen has a good range of wall and base units and integrated appliances, Miele free standing fridge freezer, breakfast area with matching cupboards, glazed and illuminated display cabinets and shelving and a door opening out into the rear garden.

The first floor is accessed from the galleried landing and includes the principal bedroom with dressing room, built in wardrobes and a travertine tiled en suite shower room. There are then three further bedrooms, two with built in wardrobes and a travertine tiled house bath/shower room.

Outside is a walled and block paved forecourt providing ample private parking and in turn leading to a built on single garage with automatic up and over door. There is gated access to either side of the house leading to a side garden with synthetic lawn and flower border designed for ease of maintenance and a stone paved terrace to the rear. This provides a safe and enclosed environment for young children and pets.