Stone-built Victorian house • 4 reception rooms • 6 bedrooms • 3 bathrooms • domestic
outbuildings • attractive formal gardens • two courtyards of traditional buildings including
a fine granary and five stables • farm steading • with extensive modern buildings, currently in dairy production • established parkland • separate paddock
In all about 39.45 acres (15.96 hectares)

Description

Standing on the northern edge of the village, and with a wonderful outlook across its own established parkland, Brawby Park offers an appealing combination of a large period house, extensive traditional and modern farm buildings, and attractive formal gardens. The house requires modernisation, but retains all its essential period detail and character.

The land and buildings have formed part of a successful dairy operation for many years. With its extensive ranges of buildings and adjacent parkland and paddock, the property would be adaptable to a variety of other uses and would be ideal for family equestrian use, or for a significant equine business. The traditional farm buildings may also have potential for development ancillary to the main house, subject to the necessary consents.

Located in the heart of rural Ryedale, at the confluence of the Rivers Rye and Seven, Brawby is a small, agriculturally-based village close to all the local market towns of Malton, Pickering, Kirkbymoorside and Helmsley. The village has access to some of Yorkshire’s finest scenery, with the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) lying immediately to the south, and the North York Moors National Park to the north. York is about 20 miles due south through the magnificent Castle Howard estate. Scarborough and the east coast are about 22 miles away. Malton (5 miles) has a regular train service to Leeds and Scarborough, and excellent connections to London via York.

Accommodation

Ground Floor
Twin glazed doors with a fanlight over leading from the garden on the east side to a small open vestibule area with a barrel-vaulted ceiling.

Staircase Hall
10.0m x 2.8m (32’10 x 9’2)
The impressive main staircase leads up to the first floor landing, and has a mahogany hand rail, turned balusters, and original side panelling.

Drawing Room east and south
5.5m x 5.7m (18’1 x 18’8)
An attractive room overlooking the parkland and formal gardens, with a broad east-facing bay window and south-facing French doors. Marble open fireplace with carved surround. Ornate cornice and ceiling rose.

Sitting Room east
3.9m x 4.8m (12’10 x 15’9)
Open fireplace. Window seat. Part-panelled wall.

Study south and west
3.7m x 5.5m (12’2 x 18’1)
Twin French doors lead onto the terrace on the south side. Open fireplace with stone interior and carved surround, with tall arched recesses to each side. Attractive cornice and ceiling rose. At back of the staircase hall is a link through to the back entrance hall, with a door to the dining room and a half-glazed door leading out onto the terrace on the south side. Adjacent to this, under the main staircase, there is access through to the:

Butler’s Pantry
2.5m x 2.2m (8’2 x 7’3)
Tall fitted cupboards.
Dining Room south
6.2m x 5.0m (20’4 x 16’5)
A tall sash window overlooks the terrace. Cast iron fireplace with carved timber surround. Oak floor. A door connects to the kitchen and a further doorway into the back hall has been adapted to create a glass and china cupboard.

Back Hall
8.1m x 2.1m (26’7 x 6’11)
With back entrance lobby off. Secondary staircase to first floor with understairs storage cupboard and:

Pantry
2.3m x 2.0m (7’7 x 6’7)
Cold shelf. Tiled floor. Cupboard.

Boot Room
4.9m x 3.3m (16’1 x 10’10) maximum.
Fully equipped with cupboards, shelving and sink.
WC off.

Kitchen south and west
5.9m x 3.9m (19’4 x 12’10)
Overlooking the gardens, with a dining area by the south-facing window. Range of fitted units with sink and plumbing for dishwasher. Oil-fired Rayburn. Fitted double oven and two-ring Calor hob. From the back entrance lobby, there is access to:

Utility Room
3.6m x 4.7m (11’10 x 15’5)
Fitted units and plumbing for washing machine. A staircase leads to a similarly-sized storeroom above.

Boiler Room and Log Store
4.9m x 2.4m (16’1 x 7’10)
Oil-fired central heating boiler. Hot water tank

First Floor
The large main landing area has a broad archway at the top of the principal staircase and an arched south-facing window.

Bedroom One south and east
4.2m x 5.5m (13’9 x 18’1)
Fine views of the park and formal gardens. Fitted wardrobe.

Dressing Room/Bedroom Two
3.1m x 2.7m (10’2 x 9’1)

Bedroom Three east
4.0m x 3.4m (13’1 x 11’2)
Adjacent is a small lobby area with fitted wardrobe, opposite which is the:

Shower Room
With shower, wash basin and wc.

Bedroom Four south and west
3.7m x 5.4m (12’2 x 17’9)
Fitted wardrobe and arched recess.

Bedroom Five south
5.1m x 4.0m (16’9 x 13’1)
Wardrobe.

At the back of the main staircase there are two facing arches, one leading through to the secondary landing, the other to a lobby area with a tall linen cupboard and:

Bathroom One
2.2m x 3.3m (7’3 x 10’10)
With bath, wash basin and wc. Adjacent is:

Bathroom Two
3.3m x 2.2m (10’10 x 7’3)
With bath, wash basin and wc.

Bathroom Three
1.5m x 2.3m (4’11 x 7’7)
With bath and wash basin. Adjacent separate wc.

Bedroom Six north
3.5m x 2.5m (11’6 x 8’2)

Store Room
4.1m x 2.8m (13’5 x 9’2)
Exposed roof trusses.

Outside
There are three entrances into the property from the roadside. The south entrance leads into the gardens, and has twin wrought iron gates set in stone pillars leading to a gravel driveway running past a broad expanse of lawn and up to the terrace on the south side of the house. This is stone flagged and continues round to the east side, with steps between two clipped yews leading down to the flat former tennis lawn, which runs up to a ha-ha on the east side forming the boundary with the park.

The central driveway leads into the yard of traditional buildings and up to the back of the house. A castellated wall with an archway leads through to the park on the east side. A further arch leads into a garage with an oil tank store, with a second garage to the side.

The north entrance leads into the farm yard with its extensive ranges of buildings currently used for milk production.

The Land
The park runs mainly to the east and north of the house, fringed by tall hedges and fences. It comprises over 32 acres of grassland, interspersed with a number of mature parkland trees, mainly oaks, and some newer planting. On the south-eastern edge there is approximately 160 metres of frontage to the River Seven. There is a further 3 acre grass paddock on the north side adjoining the village street.

General Information

Services
Water, electricity and drainage.

Rights of Way, Easements & Wayleaves
There are no public rights of way across the land. The vendors will retain a restricted agricultural-only access along the yellow line on the Ordnance Survey plan.

Local Authority
Ryedale District Council
Ryedale House
Malton
YO17 7HH
t 01653 600 666

Subsidies & Grants
Single Farm Payment entitlements on the land may be available by separate negotiation.

Sporting Rights
Included in the sale. There are single bank fishing rights on the River Seven.

Solicitors
Pearsons & Ward
2 Market Street
Malton
YO17 7AS
t 01653 692247

Tenure
Freehold

Date of Entry
Vacant possession of the house, gardens and traditional buildings is available immediately.
The farm yard and buildings and the parkland are let under a Farm Business Tenancy terminating 30th September 2008, or within 6 months of completion of the sale, whichever is the later.

Directions
Brawby lies to the north of the Malton-Helmsley B1257 road, as shown on the attached plan. Brawby Park is on the northern edge of the village. There are three entrances into the property: take the central gateway which runs into the yard area at the back of the house.

Viewing
Strictly by appointment with Rounthwaite and Woodhead, Malton Office 01653 600747.

Schedule of Buildings as numbered on the inset plan
1. Brick Built Range 14m x 5.0m (45’11 x 16’5) With stores and tack room.
2. Byre 9.2m x 4.6m (30’2 x 15’1)
2. Five Stables 5.0m x 7.0m (16’5 x 23’0)
2. Byre 4.5m x 18m (14’9 x 59’1)
3. Chemical Store Room 6.3m x 2.7m (20’8 x 8’10)
4. Two-Storey Granary 6.3m x 27.0m (20’8 x 88’6)
Built of mellow brick, this attractive building includes a double height barn with sliding door access,
arched cart sheds, a double garage and two subdivided granaries at first floor level with a broad
central staircase.
4. Attached Single-Storey Building about 20.0m x 4.0m (65’6 x 13’1) fitted with calf pens.
5. Cattle Court 20.0m x 12.0m (66’7 x 39’4) Traditional building with adjoining farm office.
6. Cattle Shed 9.0m x 22.0m (29’6 x 72’2)
7. Cubicle Shed 7.6m x 18.9m (25’ x 62’) 30 traditional cubicles with central passage.
8. Steel Portal Frame Cow Housing 13.9m x 32m (45’6 x 105’) 90 cubicles.
9. General Purpose Building 15.6m x 32m (51’3 x 105’) Currently a covered silage clamp.
To the rear of the buildings is a concrete yard with slurry slats and access to the milking parlour.
Beyond the yard stands the slurry store.
10. Milking Parlour and Dairy Housed in a traditional building the parlour is 6:6 herring bone milking
parlour with access to the dairy.
11. Silage Clamp/Concrete Yard
12. Hay Barn.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Messrs Rounthwaite & Woodhead for themselves and their vendors and lessors whose agents they are give notice that these particulars are produced in good faith, set out as a general guide only and do not constitute any part of a contract. No person employed by Messrs Rounthwaite & Woodhead has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatsoever in relation to this property. The dimensions in the sales particulars are approximate only and the accuracy of any description cannot be guaranteed. Reference to machinery, services and electrical goods does not indicate that they are in good or working order. All reference to prices and rents etc. exclude VAT which may apply in some cases.