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More than just a sporting chance!

30th May 2007 Print
More than just a sporting chance! A spectacular residential, agricultural and sporting estate on the banks of the River Coquet, with a magnificent country house in its own parkland setting.

Listed principal house with 5 reception rooms, 8 first floor bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, formal, walled and wooded gardens, hard tennis court, 5 cottages, stables, estate buildings, farm steading with development potential, parkland, arable and grassland, woodland, sporting rights, over 3 miles of double and single bank fishing on the Coquet.

Smiths Gore’s Berwick Office are marketing Guyzance Estate, perfectly situated within the county of Northumberland, being less than 30 miles north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, one of England’s great cities which has experienced a major rebirth as an economic and cultural centre.

The hall is an impressive focal point. Constructed of dressed stone with fine architectural detail, including oriel and leaded glazed windows, with carved stonework crests and a central castellated tower.

The hall provides about 11,000 sq ft of accommodation, mainly on two floors. Internally it boasts the same impressive scale and fine architectural detail, with spacious reception rooms on the south side of the house and two fine oak staircases. Other notable features include the intricately detailed 18th century pine panelling in the dining room, reputedly from North Seaton Hall which was demolished in the early 20th century, and the 1,600 sq ft Edwardian ballroom, with its fine fireplaces, minstrel’s gallery and coffered ceiling supported on massive central columns.

Great thought was given to the original landscaping and design of the formal, walled and ornamental gardens that surround the Hall and link to areas of amenity woodland, framing the dramatic elevated views over this attractive stretch of the Coquet Valley. Beyond the hall grounds and riverbank, the estate includes an appealing mix of established parkland, arable land, and commercial and amenity woodlands, with significant sporting potential.

James Abbott, selling agent at Smiths Gore’s Corbridge Office says: "The Guyzance Estate is fabulous, a complete sporting and residential estate, with a grand neo-Tudor mansion at its heart, cottages, woodland, fishing & shooting, all in an attractive and accessible position."

"The Estate is a hidden gem; 8 miles from Alnwick, close to the Northumbrian coast and accessible, 4 miles from the nearest mainline rail station and easily commutable to Newcastle."

Guyzance Estate is marketed with a guide price of £7,000,000 for the whole. For further information, visit smithsgore.co.uk.

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More than just a sporting chance!