West Cottage, Shortflatt, Belsay, NE20 0HD
- PROPERTY TYPE
Cottage
- BEDROOMS
3
- BATHROOMS
1
- SIZE
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Freehold
Key features
- A detached cottage set on approximately four acres of land
- Accessed via a private drive shared with Shortflatt Tower, a manor house wedding venue
- Woodburner and stone fireplace anchor the sitting room, with French doors onto the garden
- Light and bright kitchen with space for a table and views over the gardens
- Three bedrooms
- Family bathroom with a shower over the bath
- Lawned garden gives way to paddock and rougher grazing land beyond
- No upper chain to hold you back
- Only five minutes to Belsay's shop, post office and coffee shop
- Fifteen minutes to Ponteland for schools, pubs and a Waitrose
Description
Please quote reference KK049 when enquiring.
A three bedroom cottage set on four versatile acres, with a manor house as your nearest neighbour. There's no chain holding you back, just the practical matter of deciding what to do with all that land...
Maybe it's chickens first, then a polytunnel, then somehow you end up with a pony or two…
The drive in sets the tone before you've even parked up. You sweep past Shortflatt Tower, an historic country house used for luxury weddings, then down a private track lined with mature hedging. The cottage and its gated grounds wait at the end of it, feeling miles from anywhere - despite being only fifteen minutes from Ponteland's schools and shops (including Waitrose!).
Inside, a woodburner sits in a stone fireplace, and French doors open straight from the lounge into the garden - so on a good-weather day, you can just walk out with a coffee. The room is big enough to be zoned, with a proper sofa arrangement and a reading corner, still leaving space to sit and eat
The kitchen is light and bright and genuinely sociable - windows over the sink look out to the trees, and there's space for a table if breakfast in the kitchen is more your thing than grabbing a slice of toast on the go.
There are three bedrooms plus a family bathroom with a shower over the bath.
Then there's the land. Roughly four acres wrap around the cottage - a lawned garden close to the house, gives way to a paddock and rougher grassland further out.
Whether that means grazing for a couple of ponies, a proper kitchen garden, or simply room for the dog to actually run free, it's yours to decide.
Bolam Lake country park is a short drive for weekend walks, Belsay village covers the essentials with its post office, village shop and coffee shop, and Newcastle Airport is twenty minutes away if the smallholding life still needs to fit around actual travel.
If you've been waiting for the moment to swap city living for something closer to the Good Life (in the grounds of a country house, no less…), this one removes most of the excuses - there’s no chain, plenty of room to grow into, and a setting that does a lot of the persuading by itself.
This is a unique opportunity so I’m expecting plenty of interest in this one, get in touch soon to arrange a viewing.
EPC Rating: E
Tenure: Freehold
Council Tax Band: C
- COUNCIL TAXA payment made to your local authority in order to pay for local services like schools, libraries, and refuse collection. The amount you pay depends on the value of the property.Read more about council Tax in our glossary page.
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- PARKINGDetails of how and where vehicles can be parked, and any associated costs.Read more about parking in our glossary page.
- Driveway,Off street
- GARDENA property has access to an outdoor space, which could be private or shared.
- Private garden
- ACCESSIBILITYHow a property has been adapted to meet the needs of vulnerable or disabled individuals.Read more about accessibility in our glossary page.
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West Cottage, Shortflatt, Belsay, NE20 0HD
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