Whalley Old Road, Billington, Clitheroe, Lancashire

**RIBBLE VALLEY SMALLHOLDING**
Set within a superb rural position with elevated, panoramic views over the surrounding Ribble Valley. The property comprises of an attractive stone built, three bedroom character dwelling and includes two attached workshops/outbuildings providing for storage or garaging space, an ‘L’ shaped stable block providing for five stables and a grassland paddock, all set in approx. 3.63 acres, or thereabouts.
This is a true lifestyle property and will be of interest to those who enjoy peaceful surroundings with beautiful open views, require additional space and outbuildings or have equestrian or lifestyle farming interests.

The property is located within a rural position between the villages of Whalley, Billington and Langho, which provide for a superb range of amenities including independent shops, primary schools, public houses and high school. The location provides great levels of privacy and superb views across the Valley to Longridge Fell, whilst being within close proximity to the A59 and M6, and within easy reach of Clitheroe, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton and Manchester.

The property has previously benefited from Planning Consent for large scale extension into the workshop buildings, with the size of the plot and buildings included on site providing tremendous scope for purchasers to design and create their own bespoke property, subject to gaining the necessary Planning Consents involved.

The house provides for a spacious family home which is full of character, including exposed timber beams, exposed stonework and walls, large stone fireplaces and stone flagged floors.

The main front door opens into a front porch, which in turn leads into the main lounge benefiting from a window overlooking the front, affording plenty of natural light. The lounge includes exposed timber beams and stone flagged floors, with a large central fireplace enclosing a log burning stove with stone surround and lintel. This lounge is open to a dining room to the rear, with further windows overlooking the side and rear driveway and yard area.

Leading off the lounge is the living/dining/kitchen area, with the living room/dining room positioned to the front of the property and benefitting from a window overlooking the front garden. This room includes a further large fireplace with flagged hearth and timber fire surround. The room includes stone flagged flooring which continues through an open archway into the kitchen positioned to the rear of the property. The kitchen benefits from a rear door leading into a back conservatory and a further window looking through the conservatory to the rear yard beyond. The kitchen includes base and wall mounted kitchen units with integrated sink and a range-style electric cooker. To the rear of the kitchen is a back conservatory which leads out onto the rear yard and provides a perfect boot room. Also to the ground floor is a central hallway, with staircase leading to the first floor and door leading through to a downstairs wc with wash hand basin.

To the first floor is a main landing area and three spacious bedrooms with windows overlooking the front and rear garden areas. Each room including exposed timber beams, timber flooring and exposed stone walls. The main room also includes built-in cupboard space.

The family bathroom benefits from a window to the rear and includes a wash hand basin, bidet, wc, free standing bath and former shower cubicle, however the shower cubicle has now been removed.

A staircase leads from the first floor landing to the attic, with the attic benefitting from two windows overlooking the agricultural land and valley beyond with the room being fully boarded and open to eaves, allowing for future renovation or conversion.

The property includes a driveway which leads to the side of the house and to a spacious yard/driveway area positioned to the rear, with capabilities for parking numerous vehicles.

The front garden comprises of predominantly lawned areas with surrounding shrubbery.

The property includes two large workshop/storage buildings positioned to the northern gable wall of the property. Workshop one comprises a timber pole building with mono-pitched sheet roof and sheet cladding to the elevations, with an open doorway to the rear and double timber doors to the front. Internally, the building includes concrete flooring and is open to the eaves. The second workshop is constructed of concrete block under a mono-pitched sheet roof, with tin sheet cladded doors to the rear and concrete flooring. The buildings offer superb scope for workshop, garaging or storage space, with further potential for conversion of the buildings, subject to gaining the relevant Planning Consents.

To the rear of the property is an ‘L’ shaped stable block providing for five stables and being constructed of rendered block under a mono-pitched sheet roof with the building including concrete flooring throughout and being divided into separate stables.

To the north of the yard and driveway is a grassland paddock which slopes down to the northern boundary and offers huge scope and potential for amenity, equestrian or lifestyle farming, whilst also providing an element of privacy and control to the property.

Properties of this nature are not regularly offered to the Market and this a rare opportunity to obtain a substantial dwelling with outbuildings and land, which offers huge scope to a variety of purchasers, dependent their own requirements, needs and specifications.