Beech Cottage, Tanpits Lane, Burton-in-Kendal, LA6 1HX

Although there is evidence of a dwelling here since the 1700s, Beech Cottage as it is now presented has clearly been much altered and extended in the intervening centuries. The current owners moved here in 1982 and set about a program of works to update and extend, while keeping the character of the original cottage. Having loved the amenity and lifestyle that the garden provided just as much as the house itself, they are now reluctantly looking to downsize and move on. This is a charming home offering good space, character, a sunny outlook, attractive views and a private setting all wrapped up in a highly accessible location.

Through a front porch into a double fronted reception room with space for dining and relaxing, snug, dining kitchen, cloakroom, utility room, climbing room and garden room. The first-floor landing opens to a reading area/home study, there are three double bedrooms, a fourth single bedroom and a bathroom.

Outside, a long private drive opens to a cobble and stone flagged courtyard, giving ample parking space in front of the property. With private gardens stretching out in either direction including an orchard and collection of fruit bushes, a choice of seating area, a pergola and a gazebo. There is also a selection of outhouses including one that would make a super workshop or home office.

A characterful period property without the possible restrictions of a Grade II listing.

Vendor insight

The house and the garden have both been wonderful for us, we still love everything about it here, but it’s now time for us to move on.

Location

Beech Cottage enjoys a private setting, probably unknown by many living in the village itself as it is delightfully tucked away at the edge of the village of Burton in Kendal.

Over the years Burton in Kendal has proved itself to be popular with those working in Kendal and Lancaster as it lies almost equidistant between the two and for buyers seeking ready access to the M6, whether travelling for business purposes, purely for pleasure or for regular family commitments.

There is a vibrant village community; a pub, primary school, church, village shop and post office, tennis court, bowling green and Memorial Hall which plays host to a wide range of local groups and clubs. This is an opportunity to enjoy the benefits of a village setting and allembracing community with excellent access to unspoilt open countryside and first

rate road and rail communication links. Access onto the M6 is either at Junction 35 or 36 depending on the direction of travel and there are stations on the main West Coast line at both Oxenholme and Lancaster with a branch line station at Carnforth. Your day-to-day needs will be well met in the busy town of Carnforth with a choice of supermarkets (Booths, Tesco and Aldi), a busy high street of independent retails and a range of health care providers, the delightful market town and tourist destination of Kirkby Lonsdale is also convenient, it too having a branch of Booth.

For those that love to get out and about in the great outdoors, Burton in Kendal is perfectly placed to visit the neighbouring National Parks of the Lakes and Dales and the local AONBs (Arnside and Silverdale for coastal countryside and the Forest of Bowland for open moorland) bringing outdoor adventure within easy reach; whether it’s for a gentle ramble or more ambitious hike, for climbing or caving, running, cycling or sailing – it’s all accessible.

Vendor Insight

We’ve really valued the location of the village from a commuting point of view, the access to the motorway is extremely convenient. On the edge of the village, we have a semi-rural setting with good views and privacy but don’t suffer any of the inaccessibility or inconvenience that a completely rural position can sometimes bring.

Step inside

Beech Cottage enjoys a sunny aspect with a front elevation that faces south east. Looking out of the windows on the rear elevation, the aspect is over the field towards Farleton Knott and the distant fells of the Eastern Lake District, in summer the field is vivid yellow with buttercups.

Wisteria clads the front porch which has black and white marble tiles laid in a chequerboard pattern, the part glazed outer and inner doors open to a generous double fronted reception room with a beamed ceiling and a pair of lovely square bay windows affording delightful views over the front garden. There’s plenty of room for dining and seating in front of the wood burning stove set into a marble fireplace. An inviting snug runs along the rear elevation and has a maple wooden strip floor, attractively laid on the diagonal. The dual aspect gives views of both the garden and field and with a beamed ceiling, it’s a cosy room for hunkering down in front of the second wood burning stove.

The dining kitchen is spacious and welcoming with the warm tones of maple flooring, pine ceiling and units, with solid beech worktops, windows front and back, an aspect (and handy door) to the front garden and a view out across the adjacent fields. A cloakroom leads off as does the utility room, through which you’ll find the “climbing room” providing fun for children of all ages and a serious training facility for keen climbers. The space is versatile and could be adapted to the room you most need in your life – a playroom, office, sewing room or library. Walking through and out to the garden room which enjoys super views of the surrounding garden and over towards Farleton Knott.

The original enclosed staircase has been opened up and turned around to allow the light to flood in through the tall Gothic window on the half-landing, which gives views up the garden and to the first floor where the landing opens out to a wider space, with a comfy chair strategically placed to take a quiet moment and enjoy a book, the papers, catch up on emails or simply appreciate the view out over the fields with the distant eastern Lakeland fells as a backdrop.

There are three double bedrooms, a couple having fitted wardrobes. The bathroom has a maple wood strip floor and a pampas coloured suite of bath, shower cubicle, wash basin and loo, along with a useful airing cupboard.

Every window in the house, except those in the garden room, has hard wood double glazing. To maintain and enhance the character of the property, the snug still has leaded lights, the brilliant cut glass panels of the inner-porch door have been copied in the glass of the front door, and the arch shape of the bay windows have been retained.

Vendor Insight

Beech Cottage has been a wonderful place to have friends over – there’s plenty of room, both inside and out in the garden too for entertaining, good parking for everyone as well.

Step outside

Private and ensconced in wonderfully varied, well stocked and established gardens that amount to a generous c.0.59 acres Beech Cottage is as much about the garden as it is about the house.

It’s the sort of tucked away setting that probably even many locals are unaware a house even exists, such is the effective screening that the planting affords. A beech hedge runs alongside the long straight drive which then opens up to a generous parking and turning area in front of the property. Laid with stone flags and sets it makes an attractive foreground for this character home. The gardens then extend in either direction.

To the east is the delightful orchard which offers an autumnal harvest of apples (both eating and cooking) and damsons. Looking out to the orchard is a workshop/ potential home office (with power and light), a small detached store and a row of outhouses as well as a couple of open fronted log stores. Paths lead to a wooden pergola over a seating terrace, which, adorned by a scented climbing rose makes a lovely place to sit in spring with a cup of tea and admire the carpets of bulbs under the orchard trees.

The western garden includes a lawn with a more substantial shingle clad gazebo offering shelter from the rain together with a super aspect of the garden and a distant view over to Farleton Knott. This section of the garden has a selection of fruit bushes (raspberries and gooseberries), a bog garden and a versatile wooden garden shed which has power and light.

Overall, it’s a lovely garden for children to play, for eating outdoors, for barbecues, reading a book with a coffee or for growing your own vegetables. There’s external lighting and a water tap.

Vendor Insight

The sun is on the front elevation more or less all day until late afternoon with the top end of the garden getting the last of the day’s sun. We’ve built a few stone seats around the garden, and a stone table so we’ve
a choice of places to sit and enjoy different aspects.

The orchard is an absolute picture right through spring; over the years we’ve taken so many photos of it, it’s beautiful, we don’t mow until mid to late April to encourage next year’s blooms.

We get lots of wildlife passing through and also a wide variety of garden birds; sparrow hawks, green and greater spotted woodpeckers, blue tits, greenfinches, bullfinches and families of longtail tits.

Directions

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Use Sat Nav LA6 1HX with reference to the directions below:
From J36 M6 take the A65 signposted for Kirkby Lonsdale, at the mini roundabout take the third exit onto the A6070. Proceed straight over the mini roundabout (there’s a useful collection of shops here as well as an auction house and veterinary surgeon) and continue. You’ll pass signs for Holme and drive through the hamlet of Clawthorpe and into Burton in Kendal. After passing the church on your right, turn right onto Tanpits Lane. It’s a gentle hill, proceed to the bottom and as the road bears round to the left, take the middle driveway entrance to Beech Cottage, marked with a house name sign.

Included in the sale

Fitted carpets, curtains, curtain poles, blinds, light fittings and integral kitchen appliances as follows: Whirlpool electric oven and Hotpoint hob. Available by way of further negotiation are free standing domestic appliances.

Services

Mains electricity, gas, water and drainage. Gas fired central heating from a Worcester boiler located in the kitchen.

Internet Speed

Broadband
Superfast speeds available from Openreach of 80Mbps download and for uploading 20 Mbps.
Available in the village is full fibre gigabit broadband from B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) B4RN customers receive gigabit (1,000Mbps) speed. Prospective purchasers are advised to contact B4RN and make their own enquiries as to installation.

Mobile
Indoor: EE, Three and Vodaphone reported as ‘limited’ for both Voice and Data services. O2 are reported as ‘likely’ for both Voice and Data services.
Outdoor: EE, Three, O2 and Vodaphone reported as ‘likely’ for both Voice and Data services.
Broadband and mobile information provided by Ofcom.

Westmorland and Furness Council
Council Tax band G

Tenure - Freehold