Character building

3:11pm Thursday 24th April 2008

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CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL casts an eye over charming period properties among the streets of York and North and East Yorkshire.

FASHIONS may come and go, but period homes have never fallen out of favour with home-buyers.

For example, Redmove is marketing a four-bedroom period terrace in Main Street, Stamford Bridge.

This home stands in extensive rear gardens, includes plenty of period features and is priced at £440,000, with no onward chain.

The original part of the property is thought to date back to 1760, but extensions have been added over the years and it is now a spacious and well-maintained home.

Inside, you will find a sitting room with a feature Inglenook fireplace and a wood-burning stove, a family room, a dining room with a feature brick fireplace and a sun room.

The breakfast kitchen has a range of Moben oak base and wall units, under lighting and an integrated dishwasher, while the shower room has a walk-in shower cubicle, a WC and a wash-hand basin.

Outside, the front garden is mainly lawned and the rear garden is accessed through an archway which leads to extensive gardens with patio and display areas, lawn, mature shrubs, trees, flower beds and a garden pond with a seating area.

Redmove also has an Edwardian four-bedroom semi-detached in Lime Avenue, Stockton Lane, York.

This time, period features including stained glass windows, moulded covings and picture rails, and it is on the market for £340,000.

Inside, there is a reception hallway with a spindled staircase, a sitting room with garden views, a dining area with an archway to the fitted kitchen and a second reception room with a bay window.

It also boats front and rear gardens and a garage.

Next, Otisdale has a three-bedroom period detached in The Old Village, Huntington.

Priced at £334,995, it boasts plenty of character and period features and once had planning consent for a two-storey extension.

Inside, there is an entrance hall with a solid wood front door, a lounge with an open beam ceiling, a feature brick fireplace and an exposed brick wall and a sitting room with a wood-burning stove on a stone hearth.

The country-style breakfast kitchen includes a range of bespoke units in antique solid pine, granite work surfaces and an integrated washing machine and dishwasher, while the ground floor WC has a wash hand basin, heated towel rail and a marble flagged floor.

The bedrooms are all on the first floor, alongside the bathroom, which has a free-standing claw-foot bath and a step-in shower cubicle.

Outside, there is a lawn to the rear, with a pergola/porch and a pebbled driveway.

Meanwhile, Halifax has a three/four-bedroom detached in Deans Lane, Pocklington.

This home is priced at £375,000 was actually built in the 1960s, but Halifax says it has the character and charm of a much earlier period.

It is well-presented inside, with a hallway, basement bedroom, open plan dining kitchen, sitting room, conservatory, utility room, cloakroom and two bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms. A dressing room to the master bedroom could make a fourth bedroom.

Outside, there is a walled "secret" garden.

Next, Grays & Co has an impressive semi-detached in Burnby Lane, Pocklington.

Priced at £284,950, this character home includes a wide range of period features and offers scope to extend into the loft, subject to planning permission.

Inside, there is an entrance hall, a sitting room with a feature fireplace, a living flame gas fire and a bay window, a lounge/dining room with a feature fireplace, a utility room and a ground floor shower room.

The dining kitchen has a vaulted ceiling, wall and base storage units, an integral fridge and freezer, a double oven and a gas hob and a feature fireplace with star galaxy granite tiles and an Aga multi-fuel burner.

Upstairs, there are three bedrooms, a study and a bathroom.

There is off-street parking to the front and a garden to the rear, which is mainly laid to lawn with flowers, shrubs and a timber structured building with power and light.