AN IMPRESSIVE Grade II-listed Georgian house in the village of Burton-in-Kendal is this week's featured property.

Fern Bank is an elegant property with lovely period features, for sale with Davis & Bowring for £495,000.

This five-bedroom house offers spacious living space over four floors, including a large reception hall, two reception rooms, a dining kitchen, good-sized boot room and two cellar rooms, one with the original coal chute.

There are two bath/shower rooms and also second-floor attic rooms that are ideal for upgrading.

A detached coach house could be converted subject to planning consent, and there is a double garage with covered area and good parking, as well as back gardens, and a kitchen and fruit garden - all in all, around half an acre.

The well-proportioned rooms have attractive period details such as panelled doors, fireplaces - a marble, working fireplace in the sitting room and cast-iron ones in most of the bedrooms - working shutters in some rooms, flagged floors, sash windows at the front, and a front door with stained and leaded top-light.

There are also deep skirting boards, cornices, dado rails and ceiling hooks in the hall and boot room.

Fern Bank has a roomy and light family kitchen with an Aga and doors leading out to the back garden - lovely in summer to open them wide and be able to wander in and out. A recessed arch in the dining room could provide access through to the kitchen, should buyers wish to create a large living kitchen.

The agents say that while guests will enter through the reception hall, for family the daily entrance will probably be through the side boot room - great if you have children and dogs. Off this handy room is the downstairs loo and utility room.

The first floor is home to four double bedrooms, a fifth single bedroom, the house bathroom, a shower room and separate loo.

The second floor is used by the owners as a playroom, hobbies space and an office, but offers scope to upgrade to a lovely master bedroom suite or a teenager's floor.

Outside, behind the house, is a large fruit and vegetable garden, and a lawn. The two-storey former coach house with attached groom's cottage provides decent storage and garage space, but has lots of potential for upgrading.

There is also a double garage with covered area attached, perfect for log storage and drying.

The main garden space is at the back, with a lawn and west-facing terrace beside the kitchen.

Carpets, curtains and blinds, curtain poles, light fittings, the Aga and integral white goods are all included in the sale, and freestanding white goods are available by negotiation.

The agents, Davis & Bowring, point out that neighbouring property Fernlea has a pedestrian right of access under the archway, part way down the driveway to their rear gate. The land to the rear of Fern Bank falls

within SLDC's Local Plan as an area earmarked for residential development so may well be built on in time.