Galphay Manor GALPHAY • NEAR

Galphay Manor GALPHAY • RIPON • HG4 3NJ

An elegant manor house with English country gardens

Reception hall • Cloakroom/WC • Drawing room • Sitting room • Morning room Inner hall • Dining room • Breakfast kitchen • Pantry • Laundry • Boot room • Cellar

Master suite of bedroom, dressing room and bathroom • Study • Four further bedrooms Two bathrooms • Playroom/studio • Teenager’s bedroom suite and bathroom

Garaging • Stabling and outbuildings • Tennis court

Formal gardens, paddock and woodland

In all about 5.6 acres

Harrogate 15 miles • Ripon 5 miles • Leeds 32 miles • A1(M) 10 miles

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text. Situation The North village of Galphay is quintessentially English centred around a picturesque village green with a range of individual homes and a popular country pub. As its name suggests, Galphay Manor is the principal dwelling in the village, discreetly situated on the northern side of the green with a nicely elevated position to take advantage of its principal south eastern aspect.

The village lies some 5 miles north west of the cathedral city of Ripon which offers an extensive range of day to day amenities, good schooling (in particular Ripon Grammar School) with the recently upgraded A1(M) motorway being some 5 miles further to east. The popular spa town of Harrogate is some 25 minutes’ drive to the south with Harrogate and Thirsk having connections to the east coast mainline as alternatives to the principal train connections at York and Leeds that are also within comfortable commuting distance. The rapidly expanding Leeds Bradford airport offers an increasing range of international flight connections and a regular service connecting to London Heathrow.

More locally, the remarkably well serviced village of is less than 3 miles distant for further every day amenities. Description A stylish family house affording a high degree of privacy, some 15 miles north of Harrogate, Galphay Manor is a lovely family home. Standing in exquisite formal gardens that include a tennis court, ornamental pond, topiary and fruit garden in addition to sweeping lawns, paddock and woodland, the property has been the subject of a extensive maintenance and improvement programme in recent years.

The setting of Galphay Manor in private gardens and grounds extending to some 5.6 acres is delightful as one would expect, approached through an electric gated entrance that leads to a sweeping gravelled driveway that soon reveals the impressive largely Victorian elevations of the house which has subsequently been further extended and improved.

A house of very manageable proportions with accommodation arranged over three floors and extending to some 5,700 sq ft the classic panelled reception hall forms the centre point of the ground floor living space. As one would expect an elegant drawing room has vistas over the gardens to both the south and south west and adjoins the morning room that has direct access onto a sun terrace. The traditional sitting room with a large open fire complements the country house theme contrasted by a contemporary large dining room on the eastern side of the building. The well-equipped breakfast kitchen has a large laundry and pantry as one would expect with the ground floor completed by a formal cloakroom and a useful boot/ dog room. The bedrooms over the first and second floor are varied in style, layout and size.

A generous master suite of bedroom, dressing room and bathroom is situated above the drawing room and morning room with four further first floor bedrooms and two bathrooms (one en suite). The practicality of this wonderful house is illustrated by a first floor playroom adjacent to two of the bedrooms that would be ideal for childrens bedrooms and readily serviced by the secondary staircase. There is also a small study adjacent to bedroom two. On the second floor there is an ideal teenage bedroom suite Services comprising a sitting area, bedroom and bathroom. Mains water, electricity and drainage are installed. Overall an exceptional country house ideal for family living. Oil fired central heating. Outside Tenure The property is approached through an electric gated entrance Freehold with vacant possession on completion with gravelled driveway sweeping to the front of the house with Directions ample parking and turning area. The formal gardens are exquisite being walled to the South side encompassing a wide expanse of On arriving at Galphay from Ripon bear left along the southern formal lawn, meandering pathways and established borders. side of the village green with the private gravelled driveway to Galphay Manor then on the right hand side shortly before a road Outbuildings include a double garage as well as a stable yard, turning on the right. comprising three loose boxes, tack and store rooms with access from the main driveway as well as a rear access. There is also Viewing Arrangements a hard tennis court with adjoining terracing. As well as two Knight Frank LLP, 24 Albert Street, Harrogate, HG1 1JT paddocks with road frontage with the property as a whole Harrogate Office +44 1423 530088 and extending to 5.6 acres London Office +44 20 78611093 e-mail: [email protected] www.knightfrank.co.uk This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon as a statement of fact. Attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text of the Particulars

Bedroom 4 15'3"x 12'0" Bedroom 4.65 x 3.66 5 (max) 14'6" x 12'6" 4.42 x 3.81

Linen Bathroom Bathroom 2 3 up

Dressing Bedroom Bathroom 3 Room Sitting 11'6"x 10'9" 1 13'0"x 9'6" Play Room/ Bathroom 3.51 x 3.28 3.96 x 2.90 Studio Room 4 up 27'0"x 13'3" 12'6"x 7'3" up 8.23 x 4.04 3.81 x 2.21 up (max) Bedroom 6 15'4"x 7'5" 4.67 x 2.26 (max)

Bedroom Study Bedroom 1 10'6"x 7'0" 2 21'9"x 18'3" 3.20 x 2.13 17'9"x 14'9" Second Floor 6.63 x 5.56 5.41 x 4.50 (max) (max)

Larder 12'0"x 10'0" 3.66 x 3.05 (max) First Floor Kitchen 17'0"x 15'0" 5.18 x 4.57

Boot Room Laundry 15'3"x 10'0" 16'6"x 10'0" 4.65 x 3.05 5.03 x 3.05 (max) up

Morning Cloak Room Room 20'6"x 16'6" Dining 6.25 x 5.03 Room (max) Hall 26'6"x 13'3" up 8.08 x 4.04 (plus bay)

Drawing Sitting Room Room 21'9"x 18'3" 17'9"x 14'9" 6.63 x 5.56 5.41 x 4.50 (max) (max) Ground Floor This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (ES763454). This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE.

This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (ES763454). This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE.

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