LONSDALE HALL. High Biggins, LA6 2NP. A truly magnificent country house.

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1 LONSDALE HALL High Biggins, LA6 2NP A truly magnificent country house. Enjoying stunning panoramic views from the principal rooms towards Ingleborough and across the Lune Valley, an impressive country house within an enviable setting, carefully and skilfully built in 2004 and extended in 2010 to create an extensive family home with hyperfast B4RN broadband connection. Private, mature gardens with ornamental lake and specimen trees as well as a summerhouse/garden office and tree house. Small neighbouring paddock, c. 0.2 ac (0.08 ha). In all, c. 3.7 ac (1.5 ha). Additional land is available by separate negotiation, up to c. 48 ac (19.5 ha). Within a highly accessible and popular hamlet with an easy half a mile walk to Kirkby Lonsdale (approx 1km).

2 Welcome to LONSDALE HALL High Biggins, LA6 2NP Lonsdale Hall has been beautifully designed to combine classical architectural features with a modern open plan layout for 21st Century living. The emphasis throughout the house has specifically focused on fine proportions, high ceilings and tall sash windows, which on the front elevation provide panoramic views over the Lune Valley and of Ingleborough. The accommodation is arranged over three floors offering flexible and generous living space. Dual aspects give a light and spacious feel throughout the house and the impressive reception rooms provide fantastic space for both entertaining and family living. The interiors have been finished to an exacting standard and much use has been made of locally sourced natural materials including stone floors and stone mullioned windows. High Biggins is a charming hamlet made up of traditional period houses and cottages within walking distance of the ever popular market town of Kirkby Lonsdale which provides good local amenities including restaurants, independent shops, pubs, a post office, churches and a Booths supermarket. The area is renowned for excellent schools including Sedbergh, Giggleswick, Lancaster boys' and girls' Grammar Schools and Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale itself. Kendal (13 miles) and Lancaster (17.4 miles) offer a wider range of shopping, recreational, schooling and employment facilities. High Biggins is well connected, being around 6 miles from Junction 36 of the M6 motorway with rail services on the West Coast mainline from Oxenholme (10.5 miles) to London Euston (around 2 hours 45 minutes). All mileages and times are approximate. To find the property from the M6, exit at J36 and head towards Kirkby Lonsdale on the A65. After the BP garage, take the first turning right signposted Hutton Roof. Travel through Low Biggins and continue out into the countryside. As the road bends round to the left (by the lodge house), turn right towards High Biggins. Lonsdale Hall is the first property on the left.

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5 Country living at its best Main entrance hall with cloakroom The drawing room, elegant library, cosy family room and large side hall all have woodburning stoves Possessing an instant wow factor, a fabulous and well designed living kitchen with 4 oven Aga and doors out to a large flagged terrace - perfect for entertaining Practical boot room Leisure suite - currently used as a home gymnasium. An oak hung floor has been cleverly installed to cover a swimming pool. This could easily be removed should you wish to enjoy the heated pool. Double doors lead out to the terrace, changing rooms with shower/steam cubicle and separate WC Attractive staircase with wrought iron balustrade and arched window Spacious master bedroom with en-suite bathroom featuring claw foot bath and Italian marble tiling Four additional double bedrooms all with en-suite bathroom or shower rooms Enclosed staircase leads to attic bedroom - perfect for a home office East wing - currently providing two further bedrooms, laundry room and bathroom but could be split from the main house with the re-introduction of a door to create a separate annexe/guest housekeeper Triple garage with wine cellar (currently used as a dark room) and gardener s WC Plant room Bespoke garden office with power and B4RN hyperfast broadband connected Cellar rooms providing excellent storage sq m / 8195 sq ft gross internal measurement Services and specification Mains electricity and water Septic drainage Oil fired central heating with hot water to radiators with underfloor heating to main house, ground and first floors Double glazed sash windows Travertine and oak floors to ground floor B4RN hyperfast broadband connected SONOS audio system to kitchen and dining room Telephone connection subject to transfer regulations Alarm system and external sensor lighting

6 Gardens and grounds Established gardens surround the property amounting to approximately 3.5 acres (1.42 hectares) providing privacy and seclusion - an absolute haven in a busy modern world. Beautiful lawns and mature specimen trees including Blue Cedar, Wellingtonia and Monkey Puzzle Flagged seating terrace with doors leading from the living kitchen, family room and leisure suite - it s the perfect place to entertain, for al-fresco dining or simply to sit and enjoy the view Spring fed garden lake with marginal planting For the green fingered there s a Hartley Botanic greenhouse and fruit and vegetable gardens Summerhouse/garden office overlooking the lake - perfect for summer evenings to sit on the verandah or chilly evenings inside sat by the stove. It s also a good place to work if you seek peace and quiet Tree house with terrace and elevated walkway - great fun for the kids There are two entrances - the first leading to a cobbled parking area to front of the garage with a second providing further gravel parking to the west There is a small paddock, to the east of the property, c. 0.2 acres (0.08 hectares) - ideal for chickens or as a further vegetable garden Additional parcels of land are available separately, up to c. 48 acres (19.5 hectares) - please ask the agents for further details

7 Useful information Council tax Lonsdale Hall is currently banded G for Council Tax purposes. Potential purchasers are advised to verify this information for themselves. Local Authority South Lakeland District Council, South Lakeland House, Lowther, Street, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 7QU. T: Please note All carpets, curtains, blinds, curtain poles, light fittings and white goods are included in the sale Further items of furniture may be available by separate negotiation There are Tree Preservation Orders on all trees within the curtilage Money Laundering Boundary plan - not to scale. For illustrative purposes only. Prospective buyers should be aware that in the event that they make an offer for the property, they will be required to provide the agent with documents in relation to the Money Laundering Regulations; one being photographic ID, i.e. driving licence or passport and the other being a utility bill showing their address. These can be provided in the following ways: by calling into the agents' office with copies or by way of a certified copy provided via their solicitor. In addition prospective buyers will be required to provide information regarding the source of funding as part of the agent s offer procedure.

8 Lane House, Kendal Road Kirkby Lonsdale Carnforth Lancashire LA6 2HH IMPORTANT Davis & Bowring, for themselves and for the vendors or lessors of this property whose agents they are give notice that (i) these particulars are set out as a general outline only for guidance of intending purchasers or lessees, and do not constitute, nor constitute part of an offer or contract; (ii) all descriptions, photographs, measurements, areas, dimensions, references 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; (iii) no person in the employment of Davis & Bowring, has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to this property nor have we carried out a detailed survey or tested the services, appliances or fittings in the property; (iv) all viewings are carried out at the sole risk of the viewer and neither the selling agent nor the vendor takes responsibility for any part of the property.