Lingmoor House in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, on the market for £2m

Transformed from a farmhouse into a distinguished country house in the 1890s using stone from the estate's own quarry and English oak from its extensive woodland, its interior was put in the hands of the William Morris Foundation, which was responsible for many of its most remarkable features, including three significant Arts and Crafts fireplaces.

Its transformation didn't end there, however, with technology featuring early at Lingmoor House, which is believed to be the first home in Ryedale to have had central heating installed.

The incarnation of this distinguished country house as it stands today has, of course, undergone yet another transformation, this time to create a home that caters to the needs and desires of modern living at the same time as embraces and celebrates its heritage.

As such Lingmoor House has an abundance of character features throughout, including tall sash windows, oak panelled doors, ornate cast iron radiators, original cupboard doors with iron latches, magnificent working fireplaces on both floors, elegant cornice and mouldings, wall panelling, mellow floorboards, a wide oak staircase and remarkable antique marble bathroom fittings.

A entrance portico welcomes you to Lingmoor House, opening into a grand entrance hall with a fine oak staircase. Leading from the entrance hall are a large study which enjoys a southerly outlook through a pair of tall sash windows and has a handsome antique fireplace; a snug; utility room; cloakroom; the sitting room which is home to the original floor-to-ceiling windows and a stone fireplace housing a wood-burning stove; an inner hall; the panelled drawing room with floor-to-ceiling sash windows providing a fine outlook over the formal gardens and a handsome, Arts and Crafts stone fireplace with a cast iron hob grate; boot room and, at heart of the home, a kitchen/breakfast/living room.

This magnificent room has double height ceilings into the roof space and French doors opening south into the courtyard.

The main kitchen parlour is home to a Range cooker and wood-burning stove housed in a marble fireplace and has ample room for a family-sized dining room table and sofa. Alongside is a useful prep kitchen with fitted units and sink and a separate butler’s pantry.

There is also a useful wine cellar.

Upstairs, off the substantial landing, are three family bathrooms, a family shower room and six bedrooms – five doubles and one single.

The 24ft master bedroom enjoys a glorious outlook across the gardens to the hills beyond and benefits from a large dressing room and magnificent his and her bathrooms.

Lingmoor House is accessed via long tarmacked drive which wends its way through private woodland to a gravelled area in front of the house. Here the drive splits, continuing to the rear entrance of the house, the stables, garaging and additional outbuildings.

The house enjoys great privacy, surrounded as it is by its own land and landscaped gardens that blend into native woodland at the periphery.

The sunny courtyard has three points of access from the house and connects to an elevated terrace with wide stone steps which descend to sweeping lawns and formal gardens.

There is a traditional kitchen garden extending to around half an acre, its high wall lined with espalier trees and its beds interspersed with gravel paths and clipped hedging. Alongside it is a productive orchard.

A range of outbuildings lies on the eastern boundary of the property.

Concealed from the house is a stone quarry, no longer in use, which functioned as a tennis court in the 1920s and is

now effectively a wildlife sanctuary inhabited by barn owls and buzzards.

The gardens extend to some three acres in addition to an enclosed paddock and native woodland – 9.9 acres in all.

Lingmoor House has an integral workshop and stores, detached three-bay stone-built garage, modern timber stable block that's home to four stables – all with rubber floors – and a tack room. Alongside is a holding paddock/potential manège.

A former groom’s cottage is now divided into an office space, potting house and sauna. There is also a garden room, summer house, greenhouse, two sheds, a hen house with run and an open timber storage barn.

Lingmoor House lies south of the village of Hutton-le-Hole in glorious wooded countryside above the river Dove and surrounded by quintessential North Yorkshire countryside within the North York Moors National Park and adjacent to the Howardian Hills. It enjoys an elevated position, protected on all sides by woodland.

Lingmoor House is on the market at offers in excess of £2m.

For more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact Blenkin & Co on 01904-671672.