BURNESIDE village is the location of our featured property this week.

Far-reaching countryside views and a balcony overlooking the River Kent are just two of the highlights at Number 1 Holme Lyon Barn.

The asking price is £300,000 with agents Thomson Hayton Winkley, who describe the semi-detached property as "delightful".

Two reception rooms, a kitchen, three bedrooms and a family bathroom make up the accommodation, and outside there is a garage, off-road parking and carefully tended garden.

The owners have lived at Holme Lyon Barn since it was new, and the property offers lots of scope for updating.

The main living spaces are on the first floor, where the sitting room features double-glazed patio doors onto the balcony overlooking the river. A stone fireplace houses a living-flame gas fire, and there are exposed beams and wall lights.

The dining room's windows overlook the lovely garden. The kitchen has an excellent range of base and wall units, with a stainless steel sink, space for a cooker and fridge freezer, and plumbing for a washing machine and dishwasher. There is concealed lighting and tiled splashbacks.

Up to the second floor, two of the bedrooms have windows overlooking the river as well as built-in wardrobes.

A third bedroom offers views of Kentmere and of Potter Fell, which is mentioned in Alfred Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of the Lake District.

The bathroom has a white three-piece suite comprising a vanity basin, bath with mixer shower, and fully tiled shower cubicle with electric shower. The walls are partly tiled and there is a heated towel radiator.

A separate loo with wash basin and partly tiled walls is also on this floor, as well as a built-in airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder, and access to a partly boarded-out loft.

Returning to the ground floor, there is a tiled-floor entrance hall with understairs cupboard, and a garage with electric door, light, power, gas central heating boiler and fitted shelves.

In front of the barn conversion is cobbled off-road parking. The wonderful garden at the back has been lovingly maintained and has open views of the surrounding countryside towards Potter Fell. A paved terrace can be reached from the kitchen, and there is a pleasant lawn surrounded by established borders and another patio.

A garden shed and greenhouse both offer light and power, while a summer house has electricity and a television point.

The property has mains electricity, mains gas, mains water and mains drainage. The entrance for the driveway to Holme Lyon Barn is located past St Oswald's Church and Burneside railway station and opposite the Bryce Institute, home of the village's amateur theatrical society.

www.thwestateagents.co.uk; tel 01539-815700.