Home Lane, off Matlock Road, DE55

Enjoying a delightful rural location with ready access to neighbouring countryside, this interesting and characterful former farmhouse presents an excellent opportunity for those seeking a rural family home and a property to enhance over time.

Home Farm was a modest cottage, traditionally built of local gritstone and which was sympathetically yet imaginatively extended circa 1989, utilising adjoining barns to provide a more substantial family home. The extension added three good bedrooms at ground floor level, whilst above there is a 9 meter long sitting and dining room, which features a stone fireplace to one end and revealed roof timbers to the vaulted ceiling.

Adjacent to the house are quite extensive informal gardens, which similarly offer ample opportunity for outdoor door lifestyles with space for children to grow, scope for further landscaping, planting and, along with the adjoining field, equestrian or other livestock keeping.

Brackenfield is a highly regarded community surrounded by delightful countryside, situated around 4 miles east of Matlock and a similar distance to Alfreton, which provides access to further afield via the A38 and M1 corridor. The network of local roads provide links to neighbouring villages and the nearby employment centres with the cities of Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield each considered to lie within daily commuting distance.

ACCOMMODATION
Off the gravelled and grass driveway, a hardwood glazed door leads an entrance hall with a quarry tiled floor, and door leading to the...

Kitchen - 2.80m x 2.20m (9' 2" x 7' 9") fitted with a range of pine fronted cupboards, drawers and work surfaces, 1 ½ bowl sink unit, electric cooker point and plumbing for a dishwasher. There is a part vaulted ceiling, window to the front and ceramic tiled floor. An open door leads to a utility area with plumbing for an automatic washing machine, and access to a...

Shower room - with a walk-in shower cubicle, WC and wash hand basin.

Dining room - 3.95m x 3.65m (13' x 11' 11") oozing character and charm, there is a beamed ceiling, quarry tiled floor and substantial stone fireplace with solid fuel grate. A window looks across the gardens, and a part glazed door provides external access through an adjoining porchway. A separate door opens to the...

Sitting room - 3.63m x 3.38m (11' 11" x 11' 1") overall, with similar views to the front.

Returning through the entrance hall, a glazed door and partition access the inner lobby where stairs rise and separately fall into the extension accommodation. Of the lobby, there is a...

Cloakroom - with wall hung wash hand basin, WC and small window.

From the lower hall, there is access to the principal bedrooms, which include...

Bedroom 1 - 4.92m x 2.71m (216' 2" x 8' 11") a good double bedroom, with two garden facing windows, a good double bedroom.

Bedroom 2 - 3.94m x 2.71m (12' 11" x 8' 11") a double bedroom, with similar garden views.

Bedroom 3 - 3.74m x 3.45m (12' 3" x 11' 4") a third double bedroom, with windows to two elevations.

Bathroom - fitted with a modern suite to include a panelled bath, walk-in shower cubicle and wash hand basin. There is a ceramic tiled floor, additional wall tiling and electric shaver point.

Rising to the stair lobby, a half flight rises to the...

Living and dining room - 9.19m x 3.63m (30' 2" x 11' 11") featuring exposed stonework to the outer walls and to the chimney breast at the gable wall, which includes a solid fuel stove. Exposed purlins and roof timbers are a further feature and there is good natural light throgh Velux roof lights and traditional windows on each side. The spacious area is an excellent family space with room for dining, sitting and hobbies. Three steps lead from the living room up to the original cottage bedrooms...

Room 1 - 3.63m x 3.38m (11' 11" x 11' 1") a through room into bedroom 4 and requiring cosmetic finishing.

Bedroom 4 - 3.63m x 3.32m (11' 11" x 10' 11") an undecorated room with built-in wardrobes and linen storage.

OUTSIDE & PARKING
The property stands gable end on adjacent to Home Lane and to one side from where an informal drive with a gravelled and grass finish provides car standing for several vehicles. The area also gives access to the adjacent land and gardens. On the opposite side of the house are the more formal gardens which are quite extensive and include shrub and tree planting and opportunity for reclaiming and landscaping to suit the owners needs.

Grassed pathways meander through different areas and include a copse which extends to one side. Extending to the end are larger grassed gardens ideal to integrate with livestock keeping or simply for family recreation.

From here a gateway leads to a paddock within hedged and fence boundaries and believed to extend to almost 2 acres (not measured).

TENURE - Freehold

SERVICES - Mains water and electricity are available to the property. Drainage it by way of a septic tank and there is oil fired heating. No specific test has been made on the services or their distribution.

EPC RATING - Current / Potential - to be confirmed

COUNCIL TAX - Band G (North East Derbyshire District Council)

FIXTURES & FITTINGS - Only the fixtures and fittings mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. Certain other items may be taken at valuation if required. No specific test has been made on any appliance either included or available by negotiation.

DIRECTIONS - Leave Matlock along Causeway Lane and continue along the A615 through Matlock Green, up through Tansley and travel for around 4 miles to Brackenfield. After passing Garthwaite Nurseries, turn immediately left onto Home Lane and Home Farm can be found on the right hand side.

VIEWING - Strictly by prior arrangement with the Matlock office .

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