Skye Cottage, Dunroyal, Helperby, York, North Yorkshire YO61 2PY

Situated Occupying a delightful position in the heart of the highly regarded village of Helperby, Skye Cottage is an attractive traditional brick-built semi-detached property, offering considerable character and an exciting opportunity for purchasers looking to create a home to their own taste and specification.With its appealing period features, distinctive bay window and traditional brick elevations, the property enjoys an attractive village setting. A particular feature is the unusually generous, enclosed rear garden, offering a good degree of privacy, with established trees and shrubs, extensive lawned areas, paved terraces and useful outbuildings.

The property also benefits from valuable private off-street parking, a particular advantage in such a central village location.Helperby, together with the adjoining village of Brafferton, forms a thriving and welcoming rural community, with a traditional village pub, primary school, village hall and a range of local amenities. Surrounded by the beautiful North Yorkshire countryside, the village is conveniently situated for Boroughbridge, Ripon, Harrogate and York, with excellent access to the wider road network.Offering excellent potential for updating and improvement, Skye Cottage represents a rare opportunity to acquire a characterful village home with generous outside space and private parking in this much sought-after location.

GROUND FLOOR
Sitting Room
A well-proportioned sitting room featuring an attractive walk-in bay window overlooking the front of the property, allowing plenty of natural light into the room. A recessed fireplace houses a wood-burning stove set on a stone hearth, creating an appealing focal point. The room also benefits from useful understairs storage and provides direct access through to the adjoining dining kitchen. With neutral décor and exposed timber floorboards, the room offers excellent scope for personalisation.

Dining Kitchen
A spacious, light-filled dining kitchen offering ample room for a family dining table alongside a range of fitted white Shaker-style wall and base units, complemented by timber-effect worktops and tiled splashbacks. There is space for freestanding appliances, together with a stainless steel sink positioned beneath a window. The room benefits from a practical tiled floor, neutral décor and a recessed alcove, whilst windows to the rear provide plenty of natural light. A door leads through to the adjoining utility room and onwards to the rear garden.Utility RoomAdjoining the dining kitchen is a useful, generously glazed utility room, providing additional space for laundry appliances and general household storage. With windows overlooking the rear garden and a glazed door opening directly onto the paved terrace, this practical space offers excellent potential for further improvement and personalisation.

FIRST FLOOR
Bedroom One
A generously proportioned double bedroom with windows providing natural light and an attractive original cast iron fireplace adding character. The room also benefits from recessed areas with hanging rails, offering useful clothes storage, and provides ample space for additional bedroom furniture.

Bedroom Two
A further well-proportioned double bedroom enjoying a pleasant outlook towards the rear garden. Featuring an original cast iron fireplace and a recessed area with hanging rails, this is another comfortable bedroom offering plenty of scope for a fresh decorative scheme.

House Bathroom
The house bathroom is fitted with a white suite comprising a panelled bath, pedestal wash hand basin and low-level WC. Partially tiled walls, wood-effect flooring and a frosted window providing natural light complete the accommodation.Setting, Parking, Outbuildings and GardensSkye Cottage occupies an attractive position on Dunroyal, a pleasant residential lane leading off Main Street in the centre of Helperby. Set amongst a variety of traditional village properties, the cottage enjoys a convenient yet tucked-away setting, within easy walking distance of the village amenities.

A particular advantage is the provision of private off-street parking to the side of the property, with access through to the rear garden.The property also benefits from a range of useful outbuildings, providing valuable additional storage for garden equipment, bicycles and general household purposes, with potential for alternative uses, subject to any necessary consents.

To the rear lies a surprisingly large, enclosed garden, offering a good degree of privacy and considerable scope for further landscaping and improvement. Immediately adjoining the cottage is a paved terrace, providing an ideal space for outdoor seating and dining, with the garden extending beyond to a generous area of lawn, interspersed with established trees, shrubs and mature planting.The garden has an appealing sense of space and seclusion, with established boundaries creating a pleasant backdrop. Its generous proportions provide plenty of opportunity to introduce additional planting, create further seating areas or develop a more formal garden layout, whilst retaining ample lawned space. A wonderful outdoor setting with the potential to become a particularly attractive feature of the property.