Kinniside, Cleator, CA23 3AG

The View From The Rolltop Bath Is Worth The Asking Price Alone. A traditional farmhouse cottage in Ennerdale's quiet western valley - with a stylish flagstone shaker kitchen, a multi-fuel stove in the lounge and fell views that follow you from room to room.

There are parts of the Lake District that the tourists haven't found yet. Ennerdale is one of them - a quiet valley on the western side of the National Park where the walks start from the front door, the pubs are a fifteen-minute stroll away in Ennerdale Bridge, and the only traffic you're likely to hear is a tractor.

Bank House Farm sits down a quiet lane, and it feels exactly as idyllic as the name suggests. Rendered white walls, a proper slate roof, a gravelled courtyard for parking - from the outside it's everything a Lakeland farmhouse should be. Inside, it's a lot more spacious than it looks.

The lounge is a proper sitting room - with the multi-fuel stove glowing in the original fireplace surround and enough space for everyone to settle in after a day on the fells. The dining room next door is the kind of room that earns its keep at mealtimes and doubles as a second living space the rest of the time. 

The ground floor also has a fourth room that works equally well as a study, a playroom or an extra bedroom - useful flexibility for a growing family or to welcome weekend guests.

The kitchen is full of farmhouse charm, with flagstone floors, cream shaker units, dark worktops and a back door that opens straight out to the garden. A separate utility room and a handy ground floor WC sit just off the kitchen, keeping the rest of the house feeling uncluttered.

It’s worth taking a moment on the way upstairs to take in the views - a sash window on the half-landing frames a view of the fells that will stop you in your tracks. 

Original shutters on the bedroom windows carry that period character through to the first floor, where three double bedrooms give everyone their own space.

The four piece bathroom might become your favourite room, especially if you’re fond of a post-walk luxurious soak in the rolltop bath, looking straight out over the fields to the fells beyond. 

Outside, the rear garden is low maintenance and enclosed - paved and gravelled, with fell views over the fence and enough space for a table and chairs when the weather plays nicely. 

It takes around 15 minutes to walk to Ennerdale Bridge, where there’s The Gather café and a couple of pubs. Ennerdale Water - one of the quietest and most beautiful lakes in the National Park - is around twenty minutes walk to the east.

Bank House Farm is a proper family home in a part of the Lakes that rewards the people who find it - spacious, characterful and set in a valley that’s still something of a well kept secret.