Brook House, Ampleforth

Brook House is a five-bedroom detached stone and pantile cottage in the centre of Ampleforth. The freehold property is currently let and is offered as an opportunity for renovation and updating. Its long, north-to-south layout has two staircases and several short changes of level between rooms. Period details include exposed beams, stonework, deep window sills, latch doors and fireplaces. The accommodation includes an entrance and staircase hall, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, garden room and ground-floor WC, with five double bedrooms and three bathrooms, two of them en suite. The kitchen has space for informal dining, while the garden room opens onto a paved terrace. Bedroom five has French doors to a decked terrace above the garage/store. The house has oil-fired central heating and an EPC rating of D. Outside, a gravel drive provides turning space and parking for three cars, alongside a small garage or bike store. The rear garden extends up the hillside to around one third of an acre, with lawn, mature trees and shrubs, a terrace and a potting shed. A public footpath follows the beck along the eastern boundary. Ampleforth has village shops and services, and Helmsley is around five miles away.