OUR featured property this week is a five-bedroom barn conversion in a secluded location between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks.

Naniki is one of three converted barns at Lane Foot Farm, Kirkby Lonsdale Road, Newton, just five minutes' drive from Kirkby Lonsdale.

On the market with Armitstead Barnett for offers in the region of £799,950, it enjoys a breathtaking rural setting and far-reaching, uninterrupted views of the Lune Valley and towards Ingleborough - yet has the benefit of ultrafast B4RN broadband.

This beautifully presented family home was completed in 2005 and has been further improved since, using open-faced stonework and a variety of timbers.

Naniki has two sets of electrically operated gates, the first opening onto the main driveway with ample parking for several cars, and the second giving way to an extra, hidden parking area and double garage.

A covered entranceway leads into the house's main hallway, where expanses of glazing let light flood into the dining room.

The living room has windows on three sides and a stone-built fireplace with cast-iron log burner.

The luxurious breakfast kitchen was fitted out by Mark Wilkinson and hand-built from walnut, with leather-textured granite worktops and a variety of appliances. There is a glazed breakfast bar or space for a table to one side for dining.

The study would make a perfect snug and features bespoke, fitted office furniture, also by Mark Wilkinson.

Completing the ground floor is a cloakroom and a utility room offering storage space, room for a freezer, and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer.

The first and second floors are home to four double bedrooms and a dressing room fitted out to serve the master suite.

If buyers wished, the house layout could offer five bedrooms, but the agents suggest the accommodation is "best suited to providing an above-average master bedroom suite".

Four bathrooms accompany the four bedrooms, three of them three en-suite. Each bedroom offers an individual style and feel.

Outside, Naniki offers attractive spaces for relaxing and entertaining. They include a flagged patio, two well-maintained lawns and a path leading across to a raised stone-flagged terrace atop the double garage (the hot tub is available by negotiation).

The house has mains electricity and water, mains gas-fired central heating and a private draining system shared with the two neighbours, at a yearly cost of £230 per property.

Naniki has two primary schools nearby and is in the catchment area for Lancaster's grammar schools, as well as being on the bus route for Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Sedbergh School.

www.abarnett.co.uk; tel 01539-751993.