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The Waiting Rooms





Description:

The Waiting Rooms is to the east end of the original station built in stout Victorian railway style using locally dressed stone. Access is over a flagged patio area to the main door which opens to a large living area with lounge seating around the original Victorian fireplace and stone hearth, a dining area and a well fitted kitchen space. This was the main waiting room and there is also a rear door out to the old platform which is now a border garden with a picket fence. Off to one side of the lounge is a large double bedroom, with original cast iron fireplace, and a large shower room with washbasin and toilet. The bedroom includes a large bay window with sitting area overlooking the platform garden, railway line and fields beyond. Off the other side of the lounge is a twin bedroom, once the personal waiting room of Lord Bolton, with original fireplace and a stairway leading down to a spacious bathroom with roll-top bath, washbasin and toilet. To the side of the cottage is a pretty raised border garden with flagged pathways and patio area with table and chairs. By nature of its original use the rooms have high ceilings, decorative cornice, and large windows giving beautiful light that gleams on the restored hardwood floors. Conversion of the property has been painstaking and detailed with the essence of Victorian life captured in the general ambience through colour, furnishings and fine fittings. There are many original railway artefacts both within the cottage and the surrounding gardens but there is no need to be a railway fanatic to be enthused and absorbed by this Victorian splendour. The cottage provides facilities for the disabled through easy access and wide doors to rooms and entrances, kitchen area design and in the en-suite shower room. Sorry, short breaks not available at this cottage. Duvets and pillows are provided with linen and towels included in the rent. Oil fired central heating, a small supply of coal and logs and electricity included. Colour television, teletext, DVD, video, radio/cassette/CD player, professional combined convection oven/grill/microwave oven, automatic washer/dryer, electric blanket, hair dryer, shaver point, telephone, cot and high chair, garden furniture, barbeque, secure bicycle store. Parking by the cottage. Shops in Leyburn, 2 miles, pub ¾ mile. Bus route nearby. Sorry, not suitable for pets. Strictly non smoking. Please note this cottage is let on a Friday to Friday basis and not the usual Saturday to Saturday. A heating supplement of £25.00 per week will be charged from 23 October 2009 until 26 March 2010 and from 22 October 2010 until 6 January 2011.



Location:

One of the largest dales with the river Ure beginning its seaward journey some six miles west of the small market town of Hawes in the heart of the great Pennine divide, a mere stones throw from the source of the river Eden which chooses to flow west to the distant Solway Firth. The valley is at first narrow with the moorland steeps and slopes of Abbotside Common, Shunner Fell and Widdale Fell converging on the rushing river to leave a slender corridor of cultivated meadowland undulating between. So soon the valley changes and the river slows to a lazy meander as it reaches Hawes. The fells retreat behind their many escarpments and with each mile the pastures climb higher up the valley sides, meadows grow richer, woodland appears and the dale is softer, verdant and pleasing to the eye. With passing miles the fells break to form stately, isolated peaks such as Addlebrough and Penhill allowing tributaries to fill the river and other dales to approach. Now on past the larger market town of Leyburn in the lower dale and out to join the Cover where the fells all but disappear and the valley is rich and fertile as it spreads in minor undulations to join the Vale of York. Such a diverse dale with natural wonders over all its length. The highest waterfall in England at Hardraw, the shortest river tributary in the Bain flowing from the legendary Lake Semerwater to the Roman town of Bainbridge, the magnificent falls at Aysgarth and other minor falls too numerous to mention. Majestic history in the castles of Bolton and Middleham, stately homes and many country halls. Villages and smaller settlements aplenty, some snuggled into the hillsides on high escarpments, other sitting close to the river but all unique and some acclaimed for beauty on a national scale.

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