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)