5 Bedroom Detached House

Front Street, Sowerby is the kind of address that needs little introduction to anyone who knows this corner of North Yorkshire. One of the most handsome streets in the district, it runs through the heart of the village lined with mature trees and historic properties, the tower of St Oswald's Church rising above it all. It is a street where houses are held for generations, and where the setting does a considerable amount of work before you even reach the front door.

Number 23 is a substantial three-storey period home extending to 2,445 square feet, sitting directly beside the churchyard and occupying a plot of quite extraordinary depth. The house has been thoroughly renovated by its current owners, room by room and with a clear point of view throughout. Original features have been preserved and restored, the kitchen was built in part from materials reclaimed from within the house itself, and the interiors carry the kind of considered, individual character that cannot be replicated by starting from scratch. Five bedrooms across three floors, a living room of nearly 28 feet, a dining room with a double-sided log burner, a bespoke kitchen with a Bertazzoni range, a garden of remarkable length flanked by mature brick walls, a timber summerhouse, a pergola-covered courtyard, and a detached garage. All of it in one of Thirsk and Sowerby’s most coveted addresses, within a short walk of the market town and its amenities.

Properties of this nature on Front Street are genuinely infrequent. This is one worth moving quickly on.