This Beautiful House in the Yorkshire countryside, with its stately, Georgian symmetry, stables and acres of paddocks, gardens and orchards is a fitting scene for any period drama protagonist. Picture Mr Darcy himself striding up the sweeping gravel path, the Bridgertons amassed by candlelight in the panelled dining room, or the children of The Secret Garden playing freely among the fruit trees. For your chance to escape into your own world of inspiration, in this six bedroom house in Ryedale, worth £2,500,000, along with £250,000 in cash, enter the Yorkshire House Draw now.
Wake up in the heart of Ryedale’s restorative, rural idyll. Through elegant, dual-aspect sash windows, natural light and birdsong lift you out of sleep and call you downstairs to join them. In this traditional hallway, painted a period petrol blue, with sandstone underfoot, sit on a carved wooden bench to pull on riding boots as the late-summer sun lights up the Vale of Pickering and the Howardian Hills beyond. Walk, in the fresh morning air, to your state-of-the art stables to groom and tack up your favourite horse, ready to explore the surrounding valley fields at a pace.
Return from your adventures, through your stone-pillar gateway, leading your equine friend to one of your many meadow pastures to graze. Stroll into your sunlit kitchen for a breakfast of strawberries and locally baked bread and pastries. Shaker cupboards, polished white quartz with lightning strikes of dark grey, a gleaming ceramic butler sink and five door Aga, housed in a bespoke range, create a quintessential country kitchen. Relax with coffee on a rustic counter stool, or across the flagstone floor at a pedestal table, overlooking scenic North Yorkshire.
At a lime washed desk in this tranquil study, order your thoughts for the day in a notebook. A roman blind in golden fabric and glass pendant light are subtle hints of opulence in a quiet room with a modestly-framed cast iron hearth and hidden bookshelf. Continue this mindful hour outside at your potting station, where a wooden table lined with a bright layer of zinc, sheltered by a rubble stone wall, awaits. Carefully replant rosemary, thyme and sage in terracotta pots, arranging them in the sun on sand-coloured steps of YorkStone to take root in their new homes.
Retreat inside and onto an ornately patterned, plump sofa in this sumptuous lounge to lose yourself in the pages of a good book. Fabric wallpaper, a luxuriously thick carpet and rug and elegant, oversized footstool of regency stripes, will draw you into this room’s embrace, one that’s hard to resist and even harder to extricate yourself from. Only one place in the house has the power to entice you from this irresistible reading nest—your deep, freestanding bath, in which you can soak while watching twilight come and go over the lawns and hedgerow.
In this romantic, sage green bedroom, high ceilings and the orderly stripes of a brick red and ivory bed bench, and a woven herringbone rug, conjure peace. The soft bed’s statement, upholstered headboard welcomes you to lie beneath it—its generous size an indication that, here, rest is sacrosanct. Close your eyes to end the day’s chapter, in this story of a dream come true. Just by entering the Yorkshire House Draw, you’re supporting Mencap to break down barriers, so people with a learning disability are seen for all that they are and all that they can be.
It really is win; win, so why wait? PLUS enter by the 15th September and get 15 extra entries.
