Acorn Mews, South Otterington, DL7

Five bedrooms across three floors. Nearly 2,900 square feet. A kitchen designed to your own specification beneath a full roof lantern. A principal suite on the top floor with dressing room and en suite. A garage, a private garden, and the option to secure additional land beyond.

Plot 2 at Acorn Mews is the largest home on a small, considered development of four properties in the North Yorkshire village of South Otterington. Offered at £975,000 with the additional land outlined it represents a serious opportunity to build a substantial family home entirely around the way you want to live, with one of the region's most respected independent developers at the helm.

Newspan Construction are a family-run North Yorkshire business who have been building homes of genuine quality for many years. On a development like this one, where plots are offered for reservation ahead of construction, you are not simply buying a house someone else has designed. You choose the kitchen, the bathrooms, the tiles, the taps, and where the plans allow, the layout itself. A £12,000 kitchen budget is included within the purchase price at cost price, with fitting included. The same applies to bathrooms at £3,000 each, and tiling at £1,500 per area. The specification is yours. The quality is Newspan's.

The Home

The entrance hall, 4.07m x 3.71m, is a proper welcome: a central, generous space providing access to all principal ground floor rooms and the staircase to the upper floors.

The lounge, 6.42m x 4.58m, sits to the front of the property with a large bay window drawing in natural light. A well-proportioned reception room with space for comfortable family seating and a media wall if desired.

The kitchen, dining and day room is the centrepiece of the home. At 8.88m x 6.19m, it is a genuinely impressive open-plan living space with room for a central island, a dining area and a relaxed seating zone. Large folding doors open to the rear garden and a roof lantern above floods the room with natural light from above. The kitchen itself is designed entirely to your specification and installed as part of the purchase.

A flexible snug, study or ground floor bedroom of 3.93m x 3.25m sits adjacent, alongside a utility room with external access and a ground floor shower room or wet room of 2.2m x 1.76m, fitted to your own choice of suite and tiles. This configuration makes the ground floor adaptable for multigenerational living or for buyers who need single-storey bedroom provision without compromising the main living space.

On the first floor, the principal suite is a room of real quality. At 4.49m x 3.93m with a bay window, it is served by a walk-in dressing area and a private en suite bathroom, both fitted to your specification. Bedroom two, 3.91m x 3.21m, and bedroom three, 3.37m x 2.97m, share a well-appointed Jack and Jill shower room between them, and both benefit from natural light front and rear. A spacious family bathroom, 3.2m x 2.35m, completes the first floor landing.

The second floor is given over entirely to a top-floor suite with dressing area and en suite, lit by rooflights and offering the kind of quiet, private space that works as a principal retreat, a teenage suite or a guest room with real independence from the rest of the house.

Outside, the garden will be finished with turf, with scope to discuss specific designs and patio configurations with Newspan. A garage with power and lighting and a block-paved driveway provide covered and off-street parking.

Additional Land

Plot 2 is also available with additional land by separate negotiation, offering the potential for a paddock or extended grounds. Contact Nove for further details.

South Otterington

South Otterington is a quiet, established North Yorkshire village of around 350 residents, sitting on the east bank of the River Wiske, five miles south of Northallerton. The village has a well-regarded primary school feeding into secondary schools across the area, including Thirsk, Northallerton, Bedale, Ripon, Queen Mary's and Cundall Manor. The Otterington Shorthorn is a popular local pub known for home-cooked food and real ales.

Getting Around

Both Thirsk and Northallerton are within easy reach, each with a station on the East Coast Mainline offering direct services to York, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh and London, with the capital reachable in under two hours. The A19 and A1(M) are both accessible from the village, placing the whole of the North within comfortable commuting distance.

About Newspan Construction

Newspan Construction was founded by business partners Mark McCalmont and Lewis, who together have spent more than a decade building homes of genuine quality across North Yorkshire. They are not a volume housebuilder. They have never wanted to be. Newspan's model is deliberate: small developments of bespoke properties, each one built to a standard that a larger operation rarely has the time or inclination to reach.

Their track record speaks for itself. Recent completed developments include Churchill Mews in Dalton, Wensleydale Mews in Thirsk and Willow Mews in Thirsk, each a small collection of individually crafted homes that have established Newspan's reputation among buyers and tradespeople alike as a developer who does not cut corners.

What sets Newspan apart is not simply the quality of the build, though that is consistently high. It is the way they work with buyers. On a Newspan development, you are not presented with a finished product and asked to take it or leave it. You are invited into the process. From the kitchen to the bathrooms, the tiling to the taps, the choices are yours, with Newspan's expertise and buying power working in your favour. Materials budgets are included within the purchase price at cost price, with all fitting included, meaning you get a home built around your taste without paying a premium for the privilege.

Mark and Lewis remain personally involved in every development they undertake. That is a choice, not a necessity. It means that when you buy a Newspan home, you are dealing with the people who care most about getting it right.

Acorn Mews, South Otterington, is their latest development. Four properties. One already sold. The remaining plots are available now for reservation.

Garden

The garden will be finished with turf and specific designs and patios can be discussed. Additional land can be purchased to create a paddock if required.

Parking - Garage

The garage is offered with power and lighting.

Parking - Driveway

Off street parking offered on block paved driveway.