A MAGNIFICENT Regency villa at Lindale is our featured property this week.

Eller How House was designed and built by renowned architect George Webster as his own family home in 1827.

With eight bedrooms and three reception rooms, this beautiful, detached residence is set in 12 secluded acres of informal, landscaped wooded gardens and grounds.

Eller How House is on the market for £1.4 million with Kendal-based estate agent Scott Bainbridge.

It has been sympathetically restored and updated, to create an attractive and much-loved family home, and a very successful holiday cottage.

Iain Bainbridge, principal at Scott Bainbridge, says the house has "further potential to create a stunning grand house or to build on the holiday accommodation business if required".

In the main house, the east wing is entered through an impressive, columned porch. The ground floor is home to a reception hall with Minton tiled floor; spacious drawing room with large open-grate fire, Webster marble fireplace; and superb, large bay window which lets sunlight flood into the room. There is also a finely detailed ceiling rose and coving.

A second sitting room features a Dent marble fireplace with woodburner and French doors out to the courtyard. The farmhouse breakfast kitchen has a traditional stone-flagged floor, Belfast sink, range of antique pine units with slate worktops and an Aga; and there is a handy utility room and cloakroom.

The house also offers a useful range of dry cellars.

Sea views can be enjoyed from the summer house in the grounds, and there are wonderful views of the Lakeland fells ten minutes' walk up the hill behind the house.

The west wing is a self-contained holiday let with its own access and gardens. This tastefully updated cottage has proved a popular holiday destination, with guests returning numerous times thanks to Eller How House's atmospheric grandeur and secluded woodland setting.

The accommodation offers a reception hall; dining kitchen with a quality range of modern

units, integrated appliances and island breakfast bar; utility room; store cupboard; and two generous ground-floor en-suite bedrooms.

A spacious galleried landing gives access to a magnificent first-floor drawing room/sitting room with magnificent open fireplace and large windows under a delightful period decorative coved ceiling. The first-floor master bedroom is equally opulent with its unusual collection of 'heads' holding

up the ceiling. There is a splendid balcony and a Victorian bathroom with additional separate toilet.

Outside are 12 acres of scenic grounds to explore, including an ornamental lake, superb viewpoints, formal flower garden and even a ruined folly.

There is ample car parking, a garage and a range of outbuildings for storing wood and tools.

Eller How House has oil-fired central heating, mains water and septic-tank drainage.

www.scottbainbridge.co.uk, tel 01539-725496.

For more about the holiday let business, see https://youtu.be/dyxNztnub6Y