"SIMPLY the most quintessentially English country cottage we've set our eyes upon" is how the estate agents describe this beautiful two-bedroom property in the unspoilt Duddon Valley.

A honeysuckle-covered porch beckons viewers inside this almost 200-years-old home, in the sleepy hamlet of Hall Dunnerdale, near Seathwaite, Broughton-in-Furness.

Immaculately presented and finished throughout, Greenfold is on the market with Humberts with a guide price of £645,000.

The whole of the ground floor is dressed in slate flags complemented by a wealth of exposed beams and trusses.

The attractive and spacious sitting room has a wood-burning stove, and there is a handy study or library next-door. Impressive cruck-frame trusses give a feeling of grandeur to the dining hall, which is warmed by another wood-burner.

At the heart of the home is a traditional yet luxurious breakfast kitchen, kitted out with French country-style Bastide cabinets from Fired Earth and an electric AGA. French doors lead out to the garden and there is a useful cloakroom nearby.

Greenfold's first-floor accommodation provides two sunny bedrooms to the front of the cottage.

These restful rooms are beautifully presented and they share the wonderful house bathroom with its Fired Earth suite of freestanding bath, shower enclosure, basin and toilet.

Outside, Greenfold's idyllic setting offers around two acres of private grounds. A cleft-oak garden gate leads to the landscaped cottage-style front garden through a rose-covered pergola. This charming area has been designed to be perfectly in keeping with Greenfold's age and style.

The spacious back garden is fully enclosed and offers a mix of manicured beds and pathways lined with carefully chosen specimen plants to ensure colour throughout the seasons. Oak arbours add to the romance of this English country garden.

An oak-framed garage doubles as a utility area and there is a stone and oak wood store.

The garden room, complete with oak cupboards and pull-down double bed, is the ideal spot to sit and admire the grounds' colour and fragrance. A greenhouse sits within the orderly vegetable garden.

At the front is off-road parking for up to four cars, and there is gated access from the formal garden area at the back to an expansive area of private paddock with fabulous views of Dow Crag, Grey Friars, Wallabarrow Crag and Caw Fell.

Greenfold has a private water supply, mains electric and a Klargester septic tank.

The 16th century Newfield Inn is just less than a mile down the road, and the market town of Broughton-In-Furness with its shops, post office and petrol station is eight miles away.

Meanwhile, Ulverston and its railway station are 17 miles away.

www.humberts.com; tel 015394-40899.