WHEN you buy a new home, the decor might not always be to your taste.

But you should have no such worries about New Park House in Park Street, York.

This three-storey period town house has been redesigned by TV interior designer Peter Plaskitt, Believed to date from 1836, it is Grade II listed and has been sympathetically modernised to boast a fitted kitchen and four bedrooms - all with en-suite facilities and two with dressing areas.

Inside, it is light and spacious with unusually wide windows to the front.

To the ground floor, there is an entrance hall, staircase hall, utility room and a separate WC.

The superb fitted kitchen features an extensive range of polished granite work surfaces, Shaker-style base cupboards and deep storage drawers. There is an integrated dishwasher, CDA range with twin electric ovens and a four-ring gas hob with a central burner set within the chimney breast. There is an integrated refrigerator and freezer units too.

In the sitting room you will find a feature fireplace with a painted wooden mantelshelf and surrounds, marble slips, cast iron basket grate and slate hearth. There are full-height French doors with matching side lights from where a flight of stone steps leads down to a completely enclosed rear garden.

There are two bedrooms on the first floor, one with a dressing area and en-suite shower room and one with an en-suite bathroom. The other bedrooms lie on the second floor - both with en-suite shower rooms and one with a dressing area.

Outside, there is a forecourted garden to the front and a completely enclosed walled garden to the rear.

New Park House is being marketed by Humberts. Offers are invited in the region of £599,950.