If your property heart's desire is a distinctive home oozing with character, history, unique features and maybe even a ghost or two, then a mini manor house might be for you.
This incredible property has been tucked away in the countryside in the county of Conwy quietly watching the world go by for centuries.
The Grade II* building is an absolute gem and could be your country pile for less than the cost of a large, four-bed detached house in a posh part of Cardiff.
You enter through the intriguing garden door that comes with its own carved, stone archway and gargoyle keeping guard.
Then you are greeted by an attractive house showcasing a stone facade and remarkable carved, stepped stonework copings above the upper storey windows and gable end roofline.
The visually stunning stonework is said to be made from local limestone and the roof has been noted as being Welsh slate that has been partially restored over the years.
The property is said to date back to at least 1570 in parts, if the inscription carved into one of the wood panels inside is to be believed.
According to website britishlistedbuildings.co.uk the stepped, stone carving of the home's facade is a design consistent with the age of the inscription, so it appears to be an original and very impressive feature.
The unique Elizabethan former farmhouse was listed in November 1962 with the reason being that it is 'a fine Tudor farmhouse in the stepped-gable style then popular in the north-east of Wales, which retains original features including clear indications of its original plan form'.
There is obviously no doubt that the house is asking for, and deserves, a sensitive restoration and renovation project in line with its listed status.
The original features this unique home can offer you in return for investing time and budget into securing its future for centuries to come, are plentiful and varied.
Step back into property history when you step over the front door threshold and into this incredible home.
Finding the front door is the first puzzle, as it is currently to one side of the building, not in the centre where you might expect it.
Spread out over three storeys in places and just two storeys in other areas, some rooms are cosy and feature low ceiling beams and some rooms have impressive, almost double-height ceilings.
This quirkiness of levels, sizes and atmosphere just adds to the intrigue inside this special building.
The ground floor is split into a number of smaller spaces on one side, including the kitchen with units dating back to the 1960s.
There is a pantry featuring shelves, hooks and a cold slab and then a scullery with a range cooker tucked into the wall, as adjacent neighbours to the kitchen.
These three service rooms have direct access into the main and more impressive rooms that feature ceiling beams, wood wall panels and flagstone floors.
The main hall has arguably the most impressive fireplace within the building.
Boasting a substantial wood mantle, with some careful restoration, there's the opportunity to maybe reveal a large inglenook behind the added brickwork, if the listing allows for such work to be carried out.
This is the main, central room that can boast the inscription from 1570 on one of its timber screens.
The ground floor can also boast a separate dining room and a drawing room either side of the main hall.
On this level there is also a separate cloakroom and a space that is being marketed as a garden room due to its row of windows looking out over the undulating countryside.
This bonus garden room has a door at one end so could easily be a very handy boot room for use after returning home from long walks across the fields that come as part of this property sale.
Upstairs to the first floor and this level again adds to the unique status of this house, as it is dedicated to one large bedroom with an attached nursery and a bathroom.
Again subject to what is allowed to be done to this historic house, the ensuite nursery could become the ultimate walk-in wardrobe and the bathroom could become an ensuite, creating a fantastic, dedicated master suite across the whole first floor.
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Up to the second floor and here at the top level there are three sizable bedrooms on offer, tucked under the sturdy and robust exposed roof trusses - just mind your head in some areas.
Many rooms feature ceiling beams and many have wood wall panelling dating back from different eras.
A number of spaces have fireplaces that have been updated through the decades that now need attention to take them right back to the design of their birth.
Many internal, panelled doors have delightful metal latches that add to the home's overall charm, as do the multi-paned windows framing the glorious views outside.
The house is surrounded by a lawn area and a pretty walled garden filled with cottage plants and shrubs, but the sale also includes more than 10 acres of land, predominantly split into fields.
Within the slice of Welsh countryside that this house owns, there is a bonus building; a charming coach house that continues the distinctive stepped design of the main property at one gable end.
It is thought this building too, at least in part, dates back to the Elizabethan or Jacobean era.
This cute addition will keep a new owner busy renovating it once the main house is complete, or maybe it will realise its potential, subject to planning, at the same time as an annexe or charming holiday let.
The coach house has two huge barn doors and a two-storey cottage section at the end that includes a noticeable fireplace that was most probably the tack room and groom's lodge.
This coach house was awarded a Grade II listing in December 2002 and so any changes will, of course, need permission.
This unique and mesmerising property, coach house and land is on the market for offers in the region of £500,000 with estate agent Jones Peckover.
However, the sale is by informal tender so there is paperwork to read and official forms to complete before submitting a sealed bid to the estate agent no later than noon on Friday, January 29.
To find out more and discuss the process, please call the estate agent on 01745 812127.
