The incarnation of Rymers Mill that stands today at the head of the village of Ampleforth, in a sheltered and elevated position which allows it to enjoy far-reaching views across the valley, is a far cry from its original form.
A former working mill dating back to around 1760 – originally known as ‘The Haggin’ – it was converted in the mid-20th Century.
Today its front elevation is an architectural understatement that exposes the property’s mill heritage. At the rear, however, it is a visually striking family house orientated southwards to make the most of its shielded position and with its principal living rooms and bedrooms benefitting from its elevation and outlook.
Rymers Mill has been skilfully and comprehensively updated in recent years, and recently redecorated, with its interior retaining an authentic sense of the property’s character and history through a wealth of features including timber ceilings, original beams and joists, traditional panelled doors, sash windows, deep windowsills, window seats, handsome fireplaces and stone flags.
Along with its versatile layout, generous room sizes and functional domestic spaces come traditional outbuildings, garaging and a lovely sunny garden, all of which combine to make Rymers Mill an outstanding village house with potential for further development should it be required.
The property’s versatile accommodation – which extends to more than 3,500sq.ft – includes the kitchen and breakfast rooms which together create an appealing living space with a beamed ceiling, tiled floor and room for a family-sized dining table.
The hand-made fitted kitchen is home to integrated appliances, a butler’s sink, an oil-fired AGA and an electric oven with hob and fan. Alongside it is a utility room, cloakroom and rear hallway which has been fitted out as a boot room.
The reception rooms are all elegantly
proportioned, with multi-paned sash windows facing south over the garden.
The drawing room features a wood-burning stove housed in a stone fireplace; the reception/staircase hall is double aspect with original stone flags and a door to the garden terrace, and the dining room has a superb timber ceiling and wood-burning stove also housed in a stone fireplace.
Within the east wing of the house and attached to the outbuildings is a large double aspect multi-purpose room currently used as a study.
The entire eastern wing of the property offers scope for further development on the first and second floors, subject to obtaining the necessary consents.
Upstairs in the main part of the house, the five bedrooms all have high ceilings, with two benefitting from en-suite bathrooms. In addition there is a generous-sized family bathroom and a dressing area with stair ladder rising to an attic which is ideal for storage and offers scope to extend.
The second bedroom suite is set apart from the other bedrooms, making it ideal for guests or as a master suite with its own staircase.
Externally Rymers Mill has a gravelled driveway that sweeps in front of the barns/garaging to a parking and turning area, a raised terrace of York stone flags that follows the outline of the house, providing multiple spots for al fresco dining, and two flights of mill stone steps which descend to the lawned terraces lined with colourful herbaceous borders and with well established shrubs and trees at the periphery.
The outbuildings – which flank the property and are attached to the house on the east – both individually and together offer scope for development.
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They are currently arranged as a car port, two stores, a workshop and a two-storey garage with a staircase to a large first floor studio room on the eastern boundary and two additional stores on the western boundary.
Rymers Mill, which is not listed, is situated in Ampleforth, roughly five miles from Helmsley and eight miles from Easingwold, and is on the market at a guide price of £1.35m.
For more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact Blenkin & Co on 01904 671672.
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