IF YOU find the thought of a new challenge – and a new home – to celebrate the new year appealing, make sure to take a careful look at Hill Top Cottage in Crakehall.

A rather unique four-bedroom period family home overlooking the village green, Hill Top Cottage includes a part-renovated detached barn with full planning permission to be turned into an annexed holiday cottage.

A grade II listed property, Hill Top Cottage has an array of original features as well as sympathetic replacement Yorkshire sliding sash windows, exposed timber internal doors and architraves, and beamed ceilings.

Briefly, the house includes a stone flagged entrance hall, living room with stripped pine flooring, a deep bay window and a cast-iron multi-fuel burner in an attractive stone hearth and surround, plus an open-plan modern country-style dining kitchen with cream painted

floor and wall units with granite worktops, a Belfast sink unit and double doors leading from the dining area to the rear garden. A separate utility room is reached via covered access from the main house.

Upstairs off the generous landing area are a family bathroom and four bedrooms, including the master and guest bedrooms which each have an en-suite shower room.

A cobbled-stone vehicular access to the rear leads under an archway in the house to a large gravelled parking area.

Hill Top Cottage also has a rear garden with a raised garden area and blocked paved terrace, plus a paddock area which extends to approximately half an acre and is home to a brick building currently providing storage space but with potential to be converted into a stable block.

Perhaps the jewel in the crown of Hill Top Cottage is the annex, a converted barn which was granted planning permission in 2015 for use as a one-bedroom annexed holiday cottage. Significant work has already been undertaken in this process, allowing the purchaser to complete the project and put their own stamp on this income generating addition.

Hill Top Cottage is on the market at a guide price of £495,000. For more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact GSC Grays on 01609 600120.