Tanyard, Thurstonland, HD4

A particularly beautiful, three-bedroomed cottage with lovely front and side gardens in the heart of this much-loved village. This character cottage has mullioned windows, beautiful fireplaces and is well-presented throughout. With gas fired central heating and double glazing, it has a delightful entrance hall, lounge with beautiful fireplace and mullioned windows overlooking the property’s mature, lawned and shrubbed garden. There is a dining kitchen, with windows to two sides and timber glazed door out to the side terrace/garden area. The kitchen, being well-appointed and having a pantry/utility room adjoining, stairs down to arched/vaulted cellar, first floor landing, three bedrooms, all of a good size and one with inbuilt robes and mullioned windows, bedroom two with en suite, bedroom three with outlook to the rear, house bathroom/shower room with long-distance view over towards Emley Moor. With ample on-street parking, this mature and well presented cottage is rare to the market.

EPC Rating: D

ENTRANCE

A beautiful door surround is home for the stylish, timber and glazed door with iron furniture and inset glazing. This gives access to a good-sized hallway and from here, a period-style timber and glazed door leads through to the lounge.

LOUNGE (4.14m x 4.34m)

This, as the photograph and floor layout plans suggest, is a lovely sized room. It has a bank of mullioned windows, four in total, giving a lovely view out over the property’s enclosed, cottage-style gardens. There is attractive timber work surrounding the window, with window seat/display plinth. The room also has beams to the ceiling, a beautiful, stone fireplace with raised, stone-flagged hearth, exposed, stone backcloth, stone cheeks and stone header, proudly displaying the Yorkshire Rose. The room has a good ceiling height and opens through to the dining area.

DINING AREA

This dining area has twin, tall windows giving out to the rear. Once again, there is a period style fireplace within an attractive chimney breast. This fireplace is for display purposes only and has library-style bookcase shelving to one side and period-style cupboards to the other. Once again, there are beams and timbers to the ceiling which continue through to the adjoining breakfast kitchen area.

BREAKFAST KITCHEN AREA

This has a window and glazed door to the side elevation giving a pleasant outlook over the property’s side garden and village scene beyond. The room is fitted with a range of units at both the high and low level with attractive, timber, working surfaces and stylish splashback. There is an inset stainless steel sink unit with drainer to one side with mixer tap above. There is an integrated stainless steel and glazed fronted oven, gas hob with extractor fan over and fridge/freezer. The timber glazed door gives access out to the side gardens, a particularly pleasant area to sit at breakfast time. A doorway opening leads through to a pantry/utility.

PANTRY/UTILITY

This, with pantry-style shelving is also home for a fridge/freezer with plumbing for an automatic washing machine and with space for a tumble dryer. A doorway from this room gives access to the cellar.

CELLAR

The cellar has stone steps leading down to it. A vaulted ceiling, limestone-flagged flooring, stone slab table and stone inset shelving can all be found here. The cellar also provides a good amount of storage space.

FIRST FLOOR LANDING

A staircase rises from the hallway up to the first-floor landing, with attractive balustrading, loft access point and window giving a superb, long-distance view out over the property’s side gardens, neighbouring gardens and fields in the distance, with Emley Moor Mast on the skyline.

BEDROOM ONE (2.51m x 4.19m)

Bedroom one is a lovely double room with a full bank of mullioned windows, inbuilt robes and central ceiling light point.

BEDROOM TWO (2.44m x 3.3m)

Once again, positioned to the front of the property and used currently as a home office/studio, this room has a bank of four mullioned windows, with pleasant outlook to the village side and a bank of inbuilt robes. There is also an en suite shower room.

ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM

The en suite has a concealed cistern WC, pedestal wash hand basin and good-sized shower with sliding glazed screen. There are attractive fittings, ceramic tiling to the full ceiling height and an extractor fan.

BEDROOM THREE (2.39m x 3.2m)

A good sized room with pleasant outlook to the rear with a bank of inbuilt robes/storage cupboards.

HOUSE SHOWER ROOM (1.52m x 2.9m)

Of a good size, fitted with a three piece suite in white comprising of pedestal wash hand basin, low level WC, a good-sized shower with fixed glazed screen and attractive fittings, light and shaver socket above the wash hand basin, a window giving a lovely, long distance view out over the side gardens and towards Emley Moor Mast which is on the skyline in the distance. There is also a cupboard which is home for the property’s gas-fired central heating boiler. There is attractive tiling and central ceiling light point.

VILLAGE

The property has a super village location and is a short walk away from every facility within the village. This includes the school, the recreation ground, cricket field, church and well known public house. The village is surrounded by fabulous rural walks and is just a short drive away from Stocksmoor, Brockholes and Honley where there are train stations.

Garden

Outside, the property occupies a lovely position within the village and has a pleasant, enclosed, lawned and well-planted garden. The is predominantly enclosed by attractive stone walling, leading from the road from the pavement, there is a stone-flagged pathway, leading through to the main entrance door and to the side, there is once again, an attractive terrace/sitting out area, particularly lovely in the evening. This terrace/pathway gives access to the side garden area, previously mentioned and immediately accessed from the dining kitchen. This, with stone surface, is attractively bordered with stone walling and shrubbery and has steps leading up to the timber and glazed kitchen door. It should be noted that the neighbouring property has a pedestrian right of way through.