For sale: beautiful historic home in tranquil dark skies setting in the Yorkshire Dales

Yorkshire Post

This beautiful home is for sale in the Yorkshire Dales. It is in a tranquil setting but is in easy reach of Hawes and a railway station with services to London

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00:00 [Music]

00:06 The house originally was Rigg House.

00:09 It was a stone and rubble longhouse when it was built.

00:13 So what happened was, in Victorian times,

00:17 there was a fire in the middle of what is now the middle gap between the two houses.

00:24 And so when the fire happened, they removed that and made two detached houses.

00:31 And as you drive up the drive, it looks as if it's one.

00:35 But the fact that they were separated in the way they were,

00:40 we don't look at each other.

00:42 No, it doesn't. It abuts each other.

00:45 So there's privacy for both houses.

00:48 But it's great having a neighbour,

00:51 because we help them and they help us.

00:54 If people want to live in a real rural community,

00:58 then that's really the attraction.

01:01 That was for us.

01:03 It's remote, but it's not remote,

01:05 because it's four miles outside of Market Town and part of the Market Town.

01:11 And there's a train station three miles down the road.

01:14 So from the house, I can be in the City of London in four hours.

01:21 The house has four bedrooms, but there is the potential to have a fifth,

01:26 because the spaces in the house are quite flexible.

01:31 Brick House West is on the market,

01:34 and I'm going to live locally, because I love living in halls.

01:37 So I shall see the house, which will be lovely,

01:40 because that will be the next stage of the house.

01:43 'Rig' means ridge.

01:46 So in 1650, it was wisely built on a ridge,

01:50 so the water never gets anywhere near the house at all.

01:55 And you've got the beck at the back here.

01:58 You've got the beck in the front,

02:00 so you have in the summer the sound of the river.

02:04 So if there's a lot of rain at night, you can hear the beck.

02:09 It's surrounded by nature, really.

02:12 There are badgers, and the deer come down.

02:15 They're very shy, but they come down sometimes early in the morning

02:19 or late in the summer evenings.

02:22 But we have rabbits, badgers, otters in the beck,

02:26 and birds, and particularly at night, owls,

02:30 because it's dark skies, and the red squirrels, of course, which is lovely.

02:36 We really don't need a back garden,

02:38 because it's a generous garden at the front and side,

02:41 and we're surrounded by land that we couldn't create,

02:45 and we have the joy of seeing it and being part of it.

02:49 In winter, it's lovely, because it's very cosy with wood-burning stoves.

02:53 So we've got two open fires and two wood-burning stoves.

02:59 So the house is very, very cosy in the winter.

03:02 And then in the summer, because we have paving all the way around the house,

03:08 that patio area is lovely in terms of sun, and the garden is.

03:13 But also it's great to entertain.

03:16 I mean, not only do we have views from every window,

03:22 apart from the bathroom window,

03:25 so the double bedroom on the north side,

03:28 you see the sun come up in the morning,

03:31 and then it moves round to the front of the house.

03:36 So in the spring and summer, and sometimes in winter,

03:40 if we get a sunny day, the sun goes round the house.

03:44 So there is always the sun there in the spring and summer, if it's out.

03:49 Beautiful, beautiful house in the spring and summer,

03:52 and it's a very cosy, warm, comfortable house in the winter.

03:58 We've been here just over 20 years,

04:01 and it was the first house we looked at in this part of North Yorkshire.

04:08 And then we didn't look anywhere else, because it was...

04:11 When we saw it, its setting, again, was so magnificent.

04:16 We thought, well, if the house is sound externally,

04:21 and because the inside was not listed, it could be created.

04:28 So we were able to restore the wood in the house,

04:35 and then decide how to use it in a flexible way that would suit us.

04:41 So that did take 5 to 10 years, and to create the garden,

04:46 because the garden wasn't really in existence as a garden,

04:50 and there was no garage.

04:52 So that was built by a brilliant architect and builder

04:57 the plant room that's at the other side of the garage.

05:01 That reflects the house, but it's 18, 20 years old.

05:10 So you're part of a very distinctive part of the Yorkshire Dales,

05:15 and you're in the Dales, you're part of the Dale, you're part of the fell,

05:21 and it's been there all those years.

05:27 And it's...

05:30 And it's all the people who lived here before,

05:33 and it's all the people who will live in it afterwards.

05:37 Which is, I think, a lovely thought.

05:42 If you wish to learn more about Rigg House West,

05:46 you can find a link in the description.

05:51 (birds chirping)

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