When you move into a new home, it is not unusual for a neighbour or two to pop round to welcome you to the neighbourhood. If you are very lucky they might even come armed with a cake and a few hefty slices of local gossip.

With this house though, you should really expect the entire village to pop round. And rather than bearing gifts, every visitor will want you to give them something: a tin of beans perhaps, a bottle of beer or 12, or maybe just a book of stamps.

But before you put your wallet firmly back in your pocket and run from this village of crazed mercenaries, let me put your mind at rest. When the villagers come and ask for goods, and they will be giving you cash in return.

This is because 51 Main Street in Bishop Wilton, near Pocklington, is being offered as a package by Bairstow Eves (01759 302789) with the neighbouring modern post office and shop, all for £285,000.

The main house has a lounge with an open fireplace in a stone and wood surround, a dining room with built-in cupboards and display shelving, a conservatory with French doors to the garden, a WC and an L-shaped kitchen with a breakfast bar and a built-in oven, hob, washing machine and dishwasher.

On the first floor, a galleried landing leads through to a bathroom and four bedrooms, the smallest of which is currently used as a study and has a fitted desk, drawers and storage.

The property looks over the village green at the front and has a substantial garden at the back with a good-sized lawn, an ornamental pond, a patio and a number of well-stocked borders.

Next door is the second, and perhaps most important part of the package, the store-cum-post office. Spacious and recently modernised, it is made up of a main shopping area plus the post office section and several store rooms.

Consignia (the new-fangled name for ye olde Post Office) has provided a letter of intent to continue running post office services in the village store and three years of accounts are available on request for serious buyers. So, no flashing red noses and custard pie-throwing when you ask for these details please.

- If you fancy a four-bedroom village home but don't want to be a post master, Bairstow Eves is also offering Boxwood House at 39 Hodsow Fields in Barmby Moor for £179,950.

This is a new house with vacant possession and accommodation including a lounge, dining room, fitted kitchen, utility room, a bathroom and four bedrooms, one with en-suite facilities.