The sale of Wayside Cottage offers a rare opportunity to acquire a character home, believed to be the oldest residence in this delightful village, between Ripon and Masham, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. The property has only recently undergone an extensive programme of restoration retaining many of the original character features together with a high standard of modern appointment, stripped and stained floors and bespoke fitted window shutters, all creating a comfortable family home.

Mickley is a pretty and picturesque village with tree lined main street at the eastern end of Wensleydale, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and Vale of York. Daily shopping facilities are available in the nearby and surrounding villages of West Tanfield and Kirkby Malzeard with more extensive facilities available in Ripon, Masham and Bedale.

The accommodation briefly comprises an entrance vestibule opening into the sitting room with beamed ceiling, stone fireplace and log burner, in turn opening through into the study. The central living room also has a beamed ceiling, feature log storage recess and log burner and rear entrance vestibule and porch opening into the garden. The modern fitted dining kitchen is
complemented by a feature Aga and there are French doors opening onto the rear garden. Off the kitchen is a fitted utility room with stable type door to the garden and a guest cloakroom.

At first floor level is a wide central landing with large linen cupboards and exposed roof trusses, principal bedroom with ¾ wall panelling and re fitted en suite shower room with heated towel rail, three additional bedrooms two with exposed trusses and a refitted house bathroom.

Outside, the property is approached through a five-bar entrance gate down a long gravelled sweeping driveway into a forecourt providing ample parking for several vehicles and which in turn leads to a detached garage of matching construction to the extension. A feature of Wayside Cottage are the beautifully tended ’cottage’ gardens in all of approximately ½ an acre bounded by open green belt countryside to the rear. They have only recently undergone extensive landscaping and include neat large lawned areas, stone paved terrace/outside entertaining area, well stocked flower beds and borbers, productive orchard and summer house.