3 bed cottage for sale

Spen Lane, Gomersal, West Yorkshire BD19

Rose Cottage is situated in the popular town of Gomersal in Kirklees, West Yorkshire which has good local amenities, restaurants, public houses and several fabulous hotels. This popular town is around six miles south from the City of Bradford which has just been awarded the City of Culture for 2025 and is around ten miles from the centre of Leeds. Gomersal which forms part of the Heavy Woollen District is close to the River Spen, the Mann Dam reservoir and has a myriad of beautiful countryside walks and cycle paths throughout the area. For commuting, Gomersal is close to the M62 motorway, is around ten miles from Leeds/Bradford Airport and has no fewer than ten railway stations between 3-8 miles in distance away.

Entrance to Rose Cottage is via electric gates and a shared driveway. Set back off the road, it is quiet, secluded and nestled within the grounds of Spen Hall.

Rose cottage is a characterful Grade II listed property of just over 1,400 sqft in size which dates back to the 1700’s and is attached to Spen Hall on the East elevation, there used to be a secret doorway into the main house under the cottage stairs at one point in the past but now Rose Cottage is self-contained with three bedrooms. It is well presented throughout and briefly consists of an entrance with Yorkshire stone flagged floor with exposed brick wall, the staircase to the first floor in front, and to the left the reception room with exposed beams and feature fireplace with oak surround and mantle. There is a second sitting room/dining room also with a large stone feature fireplace, wood burner and exposed beams, this room is adjacent to the kitchen which has a door to a useful vaulted cellar, exposed beams, modern appliances, a glazed door to the walled gardens and a door at the rear to the downstairs cloakroom with WC, with plumbing for a washing machine. The first floor comprises three double bedrooms, two with exposed beams including the generous principal bedroom, and feature fireplaces and a modern family shower room.

Behind the five-bar gate access to Rose Cottage is parking for several cars, beyond the parking is the beautiful and private walled garden with spacious deck and lawn which benefits from the sun all day through the summer months. There is a greenhouse, pretty, colourful raised floral beds, mature trees, well established borders, a stone-built barbeque with power points and there are three brick-built storage sheds.

All the chimneys have recently been ground-out and repointed and the roof overhauled.