Guide Price £2,500,000
Historic country house with outbuildings and land in a village midway between York and Leeds
Towton Hall is built of locally quarried limestone under a stone roof. Its timber sash windows are all handmade, double glazed and fitted some four years ago. The house itself has a number of fine period features including window shutters, stained glass, moulding and ceiling roses, fireplaces, oak panelled doors and a staircase with a polished handrail and volute. The front door stands beneath a coat of arms within the fourteenth century tower. This part of the property forms the older part of the Hall which was extended in the eighteenth century and, in modern times, extended further to the rear as well as on the northern elevation where a large garage with annexe above was added in 1996. The property is not listed.
Towton Hall has versatile accommodation arranged over three floors. Two hallways sit astride a 33 ft drawing room with a deep bay window, corner fireplace housing an open fire and double doors that open to a garden room giving access to a west facing garden terrace. The sitting room, for many years serving as the library, enjoys glorious southerly views across the gardens and grounds. Along with a formal dining room is a 23 ft orangery with a productive fig tree that enjoys an ideal south/west orientation and serves as an informal dining/living space; it opens on to the terrace and enjoys a superb outlook. The kitchen breakfast room has a 4-oven electric Aga with induction hob, space for a family-sized table and three arched windows facing south. On the first floor are five bedrooms and four bathrooms all with high ceilings and deep windows. A staircase rises to the second floor where there is a substantial single room space that defies all expectation. Mirroring the entire dimensions of the second floor and extending into the roof space with the trusses visible, this 64 ft loft space has two windows and two fireplaces. Formerly the servants’ quarters it was also very probably used as a safe space for soldiers during the Civil War and now offers enormous scope for conversion, providing a real opportunity to extend the current bedroom/bathroom accommodation.
The double garage is integral to the house, has front and rear up-and-over doors, power, light and plumbing. On the first floor is a two bedroom self-contained flat of more than 1000 sq ft with its own oil tank and heating system. It has independent access as well as direct access from the Hall. The property has been successfully let as an AST in recent years.