GREENFIELD HOUSE & COTTAGE BELLINGHAM NORTHUMBERLAND

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1 GREENFIELD HOUSE & COTTAGE BELLINGHAM NORTHUMBERLAND

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3 GREENFIELD HOUSE & COTTAGE BELLINGHAM NORTHUMBERLAND A substantial Victorian detached house with high quality interior and separate cottage APPROXIMATE MILEAGES Hexham 16.5 miles Corbridge 17.5 miles Newcastle International Airport 29.7 miles Jedburgh 33 miles Newcastle City Centre 34.5 miles ACCOMMODATION IN BRIEF MAIN HOUSE Entrance Porch Reception Hall Cloakroom/Guest WC Kitchen/Breakfast Room Dining Room Drawing Room Sitting Room/Study Garden Room Utility Room Master Bedroom Suite with Dressing Room and En-Suite Shower Room Five Further Double Bedrooms Two Family Bathrooms COTTAGE Hall Kitchen/Breakfast Room Dining Room Sitting Room Shower Room Three Bedrooms Bathroom Workshop/Stores Driveway and Parking Gardens Finest Properties Crossways Market Place Corbridge Northumberland NE45 5AW T: E: corbridge@finestproperties.co.uk

4 LOCAL INFORMATION Bellingham, known as the gateway to Kielder Water & Forest, is nestled on the banks of the North Tyne on the edge of the Northumberland National Park. The Grade I Listed 13th Century St Cuthbert s Church is described as almost unique in England owing to its stone barrel vault, which runs the length of the Nave and extends into the South Transept. There is a thriving community with a range of local amenities including a variety of shops, post office, cafes, heritage centre, several pubs together with a familyrun hotel, banks, garages and library. The village also has health centre, doctors, chemist and emergency services. More comprehensive services such as larger supermarkets, hospital and a wider range of shops, restaurants and services are available in Hexham. For those with a love of the outdoors there is fishing on the North Tyne, an excellent 18-hole golf course and beautiful surrounding countryside for walks and cycling. Nearby Kielder offers a wide range of water sports and other outdoor pursuits. For schooling, Bellingham offers a nursery school together with first and middle schools. Senior schools are available in Hexham and Haydon Bridge with several private day schools in Newcastle. Newcastle city centre is not far away and provides comprehensive cultural, educational, recreational and shopping facilities. For the commuter the A68, A69 and Newcastle International Airport are easily accessible and Newcastle provides main line rail services direct to London Kings Cross and Edinburgh. THE PROPERTY Greenfield House, which dates from 1895, is a traditional detached stone house which provides spacious living accommodation over three floors together with a detached three/four bedroom cottage all standing in attractive garden grounds. The cottage is suitable for a variety of uses including additional family or holiday accommodation. GREENFIELD HOUSE The property has been refurbished to an extremely high specification throughout retaining period features including picture rails, cornices, sash windows, working shutters, fireplaces and stripped wood flooring which are combined with contemporary bathrooms and high quality fixtures and fittings. A noteworthy feature of the property is the stunning hand-built Alexander Carrick kitchen. The front door opens into a porch and through to a reception hall. The hub of this home is certainly the bright, wellappointed kitchen/breakfast room which is accessed from the hall and opens to the dining room. With its range of superior quality, hand-built units from Alexander Carrick (Corbridge), range cooker, two sinks, island unit, integrated dishwasher, fridge/freezer and microwave, coordinated with granite work surfaces, this is a true entertaining kitchen. The spacious dining room off the kitchen provides further entertaining space with an attractive sandstone fireplace with multi-fuel stove. Reception rooms include a stunning dual aspect drawing room with open fireplace together with a more informal sitting room which also has a small open cast iron period fireplace. The attractive garden room provides an everyday sitting area which overlooks the front garden and open farmland beyond. Also on this floor is a cloakroom/wc and utility room which houses the boiler, megaflow hot water system and zoned central heating controls, and is plumbed for a washing machine. The hall and stairs are flooded with light from an attractive stained glass window on the half landing. An attractive period staircase leads up to the first floor. The master bedroom suite comprises a generous, dual aspect double bedroom, dressing room with a range of wardrobes and period fireplace and en-suite shower room.

5 There are two further double bedrooms on the first floor, one with original fitted wardrobes, and a family bathroom with a white suite comprising freestanding ball and claw foot bath, separate shower cubicle, wash hand basin and WC. Another staircase leads from the landing up to the second floor where there are three further double bedrooms and a spacious family bathroom with freestanding bath, walk-in shower, wash hand basin and WC. The second floor rooms have vaulted ceilings and exposed timbers. GREENFIELD COTTAGE The detached stone cottage is located to the rear of the house, which was extensively refurbished to a high standard a few years ago, provides three/ four bedroom accommodation for either extended family or as a holiday/rental property for income. The cottage has a large well-fitted kitchen/breakfast room, a sitting room with an attractive inglenook fireplace with multi-fuel stove and French doors to the garden, a dining room/fourth bedroom, cloakroom and shower room on the ground floor. Stairs from the sitting room lead up to the first floor where there are three further double bedrooms and a bathroom.

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7 EXTERNALLY Greenfield House and Greenfield Cottage sit in an excellent location within the village. A gravelled driveway leads to a generous parking area at the rear of the house. To the front of the house there is a lawned garden with stone wall and wrought iron railing boundaries. The mature garden has trees, shrub borders and mature hedging to the front and side of the house and a terraced area beside the garden room. There is a further sheltered, private garden to the rear which is mainly laid to lawn with hedged borders, which can be allocated as private garden for the cottage if the property is let out. A separate pedestrian access path leads from the road to the cottage. COTTAGE COTTAGE SERVICES Mains electricity, water and drainage. Oil-fired central heating. DIRECTIONS From Corbridge take the A68 North and continue for about 12.5 miles. Take the left turn onto Redesmouth Road and follow the road to Bellingham. At the T-junction you will see Greenfield House opposite; you will need to turn right and immediately left into the driveway. POSTCODE NE48 2BS EPC Greenfield House Rating E Greenfield Cottage Rating F FIXTURES AND FITTINGS All items such as carpets, curtains, light fittings and other items not mentioned in these sales particulars are specifically excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation. COUNCIL TAX Greenfield House Tax Band F Greenfield Cottage Tax Band A TENURE Freehold IMPORTANT NOTICE The property misdescriptions act: Finest Properties Limited, for themselves and for the Vendors and Lessors of this property whose Agents they are give notice that: (1) The particulars are set out as a general outline only for the guidance of intended purchasers or lessees and do not constitute, nor constitute part of, an offer or contract; (2) All descriptions, dimensions, reference to condition and necessary permissions for use and occupation and other details are given without responsibility and any intending purchasers or tenants should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact, but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of each of them; (3) No person in the employment of Finest Properties Limited, has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to this property. VIEWINGS STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT corbridge@finestproperties.co.uk

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