5 Bed Detached House For Sale Otley Road, Harrogate, HG3

Croft House is an attractive stone-built property offering 3,484 sq. ft. in total, of sensitively modernised accommodation arranged over three floors. The property has a mixture of period features including sash windows, some exposed beams and original fireplaces whilst finished to a contemporary finish throughout.

The ground floor accommodation flows from a reception hall/boot room with stone tiles and built in storage, with a useful cloakroom. The extensive kitchen/dining area and has a range of wall and base units including a breakfast bar, modern integrated appliances and flows through to the vaulted orangery with exposed beams, stone walls, contemporary freestanding woodburning stove and French doors to the front aspect. Completing the ground floor is the inter-connecting drawing room with parquet flooring and door to the rear garden, the generous sitting room and family room both with feature rear aspect bay windows and feature fireplaces with woodburning stoves.

On the first floor the property offers a spacious principal bedroom, three further double bedrooms, two with rear aspect window seating, a well-proportioned study, suitable for use as an additional bedroom if required, a modern family shower room and a contemporary family bathroom with free standing bath and separate shower unit. The property also benefits from three inter-connecting attic rooms, suitable for a variety of uses.

Services: Mains electricity, water and drainage. LPG-fired central heating.

Outside
Accessed via Pickling Croft Lane, the property is approached through twin stone pillars and double wooden gates over a gravelled driveway providing private parking and gives access to the detached garage and large front aspect paved terrace.

The generous well-maintained rear garden is laid mainly to lawn interspersed with mature shrubs and trees and features numerous seating areas, a vegetable garden with raised beds, garden pond with deck, and part-covered rear terrace, all ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole enjoying far-reaching views over surrounding countryside.

Location
Set on the River Nidd, the historic village of Killinghall offers a range of day-to-day amenities including two churches, a village hall, convenience store, children’s nursery and play area, GP surgery, garden centre, cricket club and popular primary school. The nearby spa town of Harrogate is renowned for its shopping facilities and a wide range of independent retailers as well as the larger supermarkets and sports facilities including cricket, tennis, rugby, football and squash clubs and five golf courses.

Communications links are excellent: the village offers regular bus services between Harrogate, Ripon and Leeds, the A61 running through the village links to the the A1(M), ensuring easy access to the north and south of the country and to the national motorway network, and Harrogate train station has regular services to major regional centres and to central London.

The area provides a good selection of state primary and secondary schooling including Harrogate Grammar School (rated Outstanding by Ofsted) together with a wide range of noted independent schools including Harrogate Ladies’ College, Brackenfield, Belmont Grosvenor and Ashville College.