Plot 2 The Corner House, Cumrew, CA8

The north-west corner of the steading — the largest of the five, wrapping round the angle of the yard with gardens on two sides.

The Corner House takes the north end of the west wing and the corner where it turns to meet the long range, and it is the biggest house at Albyfield by some margin. Its best idea is the garden-side wing: a single long run of living room, dining room and kitchen, with a utility room at its far end, under a dark standing-seam roof, glazed along its length to the west, so that the whole of the daytime life of the house happens in one light-filled space looking out over the lawn towards the valley. A stove anchors the living end against the old stone wall, and glazed doors open from the dining room onto the garden. Behind it, in the old range, the rooms are quieter and more enclosed: a sitting room in the north range with two windows to the fields and a pair of glazed doors to the courtyard; a study in the corner that will serve as a fifth bedroom; a ground-floor bedroom; and a shower room and store off the hall. It is a plan that gives a family somewhere to be together and somewhere to get away from each other, and it works just as well for two people with grandchildren who come to stay.

Upstairs are three bedrooms, every one with its own en-suite. The principal bedroom runs along the north range under a semi-vaulted ceiling with the old timbers exposed, and has a dressing room and en-suite of its own; the other two sit in the west wing, one at the corner and one at the south end, each looking west over the garden. From the first floor the views go two ways: west over the garden to the valley, and north across open farmland with nothing built on it.

The gardens are the other reason to choose this house. Because it holds the corner, it has land on two sides — a long garden to the west on the lane side, and a second to the north running out to the fields — which means morning sun on one lawn and evening sun on the other, and a choice of where to sit at any hour of the day.

Services: Mains water, Mains electricity, Septic Tank

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