Lea Grange | Riding Mill, Northumberland

LEA GRANGE | RIDING MILL, NORTHUMBERLAND

LEA GRANGE, RIDING MILL, NORTHUMBERLAND NE44 6HZ

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A BEAUTIFULLY PROPORTIONED PERIOD DETACHED HOUSE SET IN GROUNDS, GARDEN AND PADDOCK OF APPROXIMATELY 3 ACRES

From Sanderson Young SITUATION AND DESCRIPTION

Lea Grange is a beautiful country house located in a stunning semi-rural location, towards the edge of Riding Mill, and provides well-proportioned five bedroom accommodation in a mature garden site with a paddock, extending to approximately 3 acres. The fabulous family home has been well maintained and has four separate reception rooms together with a conservatory, kitchen/breakfast room and a utility/boot room. The accommodation retains many original features including period fireplaces, panel doors, shutters, moulded ceiling and ceiling coving, and original oak floors.

The village of Riding Mill lies some 15 miles west of Newcastle, and is ideally located for easy access to Tyneside, conveniently situated on the ‘10’ bus route running from Hexham to Newcastle. It offers a good range of local amenities including the Duke of Wellington pub, a mainline railway station and a well-regarded Church of England First School together with a host of club activities including tennis, cricket, angling, and access to riverside walks and the surrounding Northumbrian countryside.

The entrance vestibule has an oak floor and glazed door to the reception hallway with original oak flooring and balustrade staircase to the first floor. The main hallway provides access to the four principal reception rooms and the ground floor shower room/cloakroom with low level wc, wash hand pedestal basin and wet room shower. The elegant drawing room has a deep bay with window seat and shutters overlooking the garden, a period fireplace and southerly view to the garden. The morning room has a period fireplace with fitted cupboards with display cabinets over, and in the family room there is an impressive inglenook fireplace with wood burning stove, and built-in storage cupboard. The delightful formal dining room has an attractive period fireplace with heavy timber surround and double French doors to the adjoining spacious conservatory which has a quarry tiled floor and French doors to the garden and stone flagged terrace.

The kitchen/breakfast room forms the heart of this family home, generously proportioned and fitted with a range of maple wood wall and base cabinets and an oil fired AGA. The kitchen design incorporates a double stainless steel sink and drainer, integrated appliances and a central unit separating the kitchen preparation area from the breakfast area. There is a large walk-in larder, with fitted shelves, opening from the kitchen. The utility/boot room has a stainless steel sink, fitted cupboards, a walk-in safe and door to the rear driveway and courtyard. The boiler room has a stainless steel sink, plumbing for a washing machine, space for a tumble dryer, and oil fired central heating boiler.

Stairs lead to the attractive first floor landing with a large, walk-in storage cupboard and doors to the main first floor bedrooms. The master bedroom has lovely garden views, a range of built-in wardrobes, and access to the en-suite dressing room and bathroom which has a bath, two wash hand basins in a vanity unit, low level wc and bidet.

The guest bedroom has built-in wardrobes, and a pedestal wash hand basin. A door leads from the landing to the shower room with a large shower cubicle, wash hand basin and low level wc. There is a further double bedroom with wash hand basin. The rear landing provides access to a separate wc and a large walk-in airing cupboard with hot water tank. To the rear of the house are two further double bedrooms, one with built in wardrobes and one with a wash hand basin. The family bathroom has a panel bath, wash hand basin set in a vanity unit, low level wc and heated towel rail.

Externally, the property stands in grounds extending to approximately 3 acres and is approached via a lovely private gravelled driveway with the house screened from the road by mature rhododendrons. There is a formal lawn to the front southern elevation and the gravel drive leads around the side to a large parking/turning area to the rear of the house. There is a large block paved courtyard providing ample parking and leading to the detached Coach House.

The attractive Coach House includes two garages to the ground floor and a large potting shed. A staircase leads from one garage to a loft/hobbies room.

To the north of the house lies the superb kitchen garden, with mature beech hedging providing shelter for the vegetable area and soft fruit. There is an aluminium framed greenhouse and log store. There are further lawns to the western elevation leading from the terraced patio, as well as a full sized all weather tennis court with fence enclosure. To the south west there is a small orchard area, with a paddock of approximately one acre and beyond, to the western boundary, is a belt of mature amenity woodland.

SERVICES The property has solar panels as well as mains water, electricity and drainage, with an oil fired boiler providing heating to the radiators.

TENURE Freehold

COUNCIL TAX Band G

ENERGY PERFORMANCE RATING Grade: F

LOCATION Travelling from the west on the A695 into Riding Mill, on reaching the western outskirts of the village turn right up the bank on to the Slaley Road continuing to the top of the hill around the sharp bend to the left and after approximately 100 metres the entrance to Lea Grange will be seen on the right hand side.

From Sanderson Young

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