CHECK OUT this former toll house on the market for £695,000.
Toll Bar Cottage at Grasmere features three bedrooms, two reception rooms and one bathroom. The cottage is located in a superb location with breathtaking panoramic views.
With stone flagged floors, exposed roof timbers and beams, and even an original stone staircase, this delightfully welcoming home sits in pretty gardens with off-road car parking and planning permission for a garage and is perfect as a holiday let, weekend retreat or permanent home.
In the late 17th century this delightful cottage stood close to the then border between Westmorland and Cumberland which lay just a little further up Dunmail Raise to the north and served as the toll house collecting levies on behalf of The Lord of the Manor from those travelling the turnpike between Grasmere and Keswick.
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Later, this cottage also saw service as a postal collection point, no doubt frequently visited by none other than William Wordsworth whilst serving as postmaster in Ambleside.
The cottage itself has changed much over the years, with various additions and improvements made, including an extensive renovation and re-design completed in the last few years, but it has lost none of its original charm and character.
Reported to be over 400 years old, this historic building still includes the original corbie stones, a stone staircase, flagged floors and exposed roof trusses and beams.
With sensational views north, south, east and west, the roster of fells on view will not have altered in all of that time and includes Helm Crag, Stone Arthur, Steel Fell, Silver How and Loughrigg.
Entered via a bright hallway, the recently upgraded and re-designed accommodation enjoys central heating from an air source heat pump and has double glazing and includes a lovely beamed sitting room with four windows and a welcoming log burner.
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There is a wonderful garden room with superb picture windows, a recently re-fitted minimalist dining kitchen which includes a two-ring induction hob, a compact Stengel dishwasher and a Russell Hobbs combination microwave/oven.
A utility room that doubles as the plant room, a single bedroom or just the perfect perfect home office and a stylish brand new three piece bathroom all on the ground floor with two double bedrooms with vaulted ceilings above.
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