Whitbeck Manor, at Askwith, near Otley, North Yorkshire, which stands in the centre of its 81 acres of park and farmland, with breathtaking panoramic views of Wharfdale. This was originally a relatively simple farmhouse called New close, built in about 1800 to house tenant farmers on the Denton Hall estate. It was gentrified and altered externally in the early 1920s, and now has four reception rooms, a study, a breakfast kitchen, a master suite, five bedrooms and two bath/shower rooms.
In 1911, the house and its surrounding farmland were bought by the Walker family, who made their fortune from wool. It is currently owned by Andrea Walker, whose husband’s grandfather, Philip Walker, retreated here after serving in the trenches of the First World War. Mrs Walker moved to Whitbeck from London on her marriage in the 1970s, but, following her husband’s death a couple of years ago, now finds it just too big for herself and their youngest child. ‘After so long in the hands of the same family, the house needs quite a lot doing to it, but its spectacular private setting, three miles from Ilkley and 12 miles from Harrogate, makes this a unique opportunity,’
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