GROUND FLOOR<br><br>Central reception hall • Cloakroom • Drawing room • Sitting room • Dining room • Breakfast kitchen • Utility room • Two walk in pantries • Side hall/boot room • Wine Cellar • Front porch • Secondary cloakroom<br><br>FIRST FLOOR<br><br>Landing • Linen/box room • Principal bedroom with two dressing rooms and an en suite bathroom • Guest bedroom with an en suite bathroom • Four additional bedrooms • House bathroom • Additional double bedroom/home office facility<br><br>OUTSIDE<br><br>Sweeping driveway approach • Integral double garage and additional double garage • Range of garden stores • Barn • Two stables • Greenhouse • Tennis court • Extensive parking area<br><br>GROUNDS<br><br>Beautiful gardens and grounds featuring extensive lawned areas, walled vegetable garden, wildlife pond and woodland. <br><br>THE PROPERTY<br><br>Park Green is an impressive detached country house, facing due south to the front and enjoying lovely views over open countryside. The original part of the house is believed to date back to the 1800s, or possibly earlier. It was significantly extended and remodelled in the 1960s and 1970s and has been in the same family ownership for over 50 years. Now in need of some general updating and modernisation, the sale offers an increasingly rare opportunity to acquire a lovely country house in a beautiful setting, offering significant potential.<br><br>THE LOCATION<br><br>Ripon 3 miles • Knaresborough 8 miles • Harrogate 10 miles • A1(M) 7 miles • Leeds 27 miles • York 25 miles<br><br>Park Green occupies a superb country position between the popular villages of Bishop Monkton and Littlethorpe, just 3 miles to the south of the Cathedral City of Ripon and 10 miles to the north of Harrogate. Ripon and Harrogate offer an extensive range of everyday amenities including a wide variety of shopping facilities, restaurants as well as schools for children of all ages, including the renowned Ripon Grammar School.<br><br>For the commuter, the property is well positioned for easy access to the business centres of Leeds, Bradford and York, the A1(M) is nearby (7 miles to the north west), rail services operate from Harrogate and Knaresborough connecting with the mainline at York and Leeds, providing regular services to London's Kings Cross. National and International flights operate from both Leeds/Bradford and Teesside airports.<br><br>OUTSIDE<br><br>Park Green occupies a beautiful setting amidst mature and carefully maintained grounds extending in total to just over 6½ acres (2.63 ha). Immediately to the front of the house and facing virtually due south is a lovely lawned garden with a gateway leading to a walled vegetable garden with greenhouse. The gardens and grounds continue to the north and east with sweeping lawned areas, a range of useful outbuildings, tennis court and an orchard/paddock leading down to the eastern boundary. There is also a delightful wildlife pond bordered by an area of woodland.