A gorgeous Georgian home for sale with a glorious garden

Yorkshire Post

A dream home with a gorgeous garden in a prime Yorkshire village

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00:00We lived in the house for a year before we renovated it and I would advise anybody who

00:08buys the house to do the same with the garden especially because you need to see what comes

00:12up before you start messing around with it because it is absolutely beautiful but everyone

00:17has their own taste but we brought up our children in a farmhouse just outside the village

00:22so we've been in the village really for over 30 years.

00:25We moved here because we wanted to be in civilisation really because we had to get

00:29in the car for everything there so the remit was a bus stop, a pub which provided food

00:36and a shop so this property came up and it was linked to the cottage next door and we

00:42bought them both and set about renovating them.

00:45The house itself and everybody who visits it has said the same thing, it has the most

00:50welcoming feel to it even before it was renovated because some old houses can give you the heebie

00:56jeebies sometimes can't they and this one is just so friendly and of course the garden

01:00is just stunning, you couldn't replace this, you couldn't look for donkeys ears and never

01:05find a garden like this.

01:07Anybody who is a gardener by nature probably spends more time leaning on their spade than

01:12they do doing anything else and just thinking of what you want to plant and how you want

01:17it to look.

01:18But I think what I enjoy most about this garden is that there is something for you to look

01:23at, to marvel at, to enjoy through every stage of the year, every stage of the year, it's

01:30wonderful.

01:31Well at Christmas time you've got the holly and then you've got snowdrops and then you've

01:35got the hyacinths and the aconites, there's a whole load of aconites that grow here and

01:42do you know the legend of aconites?

01:45Aconites will only grow, they say, where the Roman legion has trodden.

01:49Well the kitchen was quite an awkward space because it's got two windows and I wanted

01:54to keep the range, the old range.

01:57I did have one kitchen planner came and said that you should rip it up and put it somewhere

02:01else and put the thing underneath the window overlooking our neighbour's property and I

02:04thought that's ridiculous.

02:06But I spent a long time trying to work out the best layout.

02:11I was a professional cook for a while so I wanted a kitchen where everything was in

02:16reach which ergonomically worked and that's the best I could come up with the space that

02:23we had.

02:24Well we were quite selfish with the bedroom because it did have a range of wardrobes in

02:29beforehand and we chose to use the second bedroom as a dressing room because it's only

02:34ourselves.

02:35So we're here alone largely and the same with the bathroom and with a view like that out

02:41the bathroom window and you couldn't put your bath anywhere else, could you?

02:45It's a very friendly village, it's a lovely village to live in.

02:49There are a lot of very, very interesting and beautiful walks.

02:57People are lovely, there is a great community spirit but of course the garden, if you get

03:03a day like today, you don't need to be inside at all, you know, you can spend the whole

03:08of the day outside.

03:10It was called Galsworthy House by somebody who lived in it a couple of centuries ago

03:15or a century and a half ago.

03:17Apparently he won a lot of money on a horse called Galsworthy so he called the house Galsworthy

03:22House.

03:25If you'd like to find out the asking price for Galsworthy House you can find the link

03:30in the description.

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