Tenure

Freehold

EPC

E

Council tax

Band G

Floor area

3,455 sq ft

Bedrooms

5

Status

For sale

In brief

• Principal rooms facing south over the paddock
• Farmhouse kitchen with four-oven range
• Five bedrooms across two staircases
• Stable block of three boxes + tack room
• Paddock of approx. 1.1 acres
• In all approx. 1.6 acres

The full picture

High Birks last changed hands in 1991. It is the classic dale arrangement: a long seventeenth-century gritstone house side-on to the lane, mistal and barn behind, and a paddock running away to a field boundary of mature oaks, with the valley falling away beyond.

The house is generous and unpretentious — three reception rooms, a farmhouse kitchen with a four-oven range at its heart, and five bedrooms reached by front and back stairs, which works naturally for guests or older children. It is well kept but honestly presented: a new owner will want to update bathrooms and heating in time (the EPC is E), and the guide price reflects that.

Outside are a stable block of three boxes with tack room, a garage barn, gardens around the house and the paddock of just over an acre. Darley straggles pleasantly along its lane with a shop, a school and the Nidderdale showground down the valley; Harrogate is twenty minutes.