ALLOSTOCK Hall is a home with a view and lots more besides.

Currently on the market for just shy of £2million, the Grade II listed Georgian home off Holmes Chapel Road between Lach Dennis and Allostock is surrounded by its own gardens and grounds.

There are formal walled gardens with a pond, orchards, woodland and paddocks, as well as a range of two-storey outbuildings with stabling, a games room and a guest/staff apartment.

The main house is large, but manageable, and enjoys a centrepiece reception hall with parquet floor which sits between two large formal reception rooms, a large dual aspect drawing room with open fireplace and a large formal dining room.

A snug has exposed ceiling timbers and an open fire, a useful study which also gives separate access to an integral first-floor apartment, and a large kitchen/breakfast room with views over the garden and enjoying an interlinking summer conservatory with open brick floor. 

The kitchen is fitted with a range of hand painted style base and eye level cabinets with granite work surfaces, has a stone flagged floor and space for a central breakfast table.

There are several ancillary rooms leading from the kitchen including a rear porch, large utility room with access to the inner courtyard and a spacious walk-in pantry. 

There are five bedrooms over two upper floors with scope to integrate the adjacent first floor apartment. 

The master suite is spacious area with a large bedroom overlooking the front forecourt and formal gardens to the side. It has an original fireplace, a range of fitted wardrobes and large en-suite bathroom with several dressing areas.

On the upper floor there are some sloping ceilings and exposed wall and ceiling timbers and currently two bedrooms and a bathroom.

An internal apartment can be accessed from within the house by the study, and via a small external lobby onto the courtyard is a fully self-contained first floor apartment that would be suitable for a dependant relative.

It is fully self-contained and includes a good size lounge with gas fire, adjacent small kitchen/breakfast room with lovely views over the gardens and up to three bedrooms, one large double, one single bedroom and a good sized single room currently used as a dressing room with a range of built-in wardrobes.  

There is a splendid traditional range of L-shaped two-storey outbuildings, which currently offer lovely original stables, an excellent games/snooker room and a brick garden store, on the ground floor, as well as two open fronted garages.

At one end is a staff apartment, which provides spacious ancillary accommodation, fully self-contained with its own heating system and with a good-sized lounge with views over the rear courtyard and land.

There are two large double bedrooms, kitchen/breakfast room with space for a central table and a bathroom with four-piece suite, including bath and shower.

The house sits at the end of a long tree-lined driveway with a substantial gravel forecourt to the front of the main building. 

The formal gardens are beautifully maintained and have been meticulously cared for by their gardener who has lived on site for some years. 

They include formal lawns, rose gardens and a large partially walled garden adjoining a fabulous pond with a wooded backdrop.

On the other side of the main house is a less formal area of garden including lawns and an orchard, with some further woodland.

Allostock Hall, including its immediate formal gardens and buildings is surrounded by its own well-heeled paddock land in various enclosures and extends in all to about 29.2 acres or thereabouts.