If you’ve always hankered after running a smallholding, or maybe operating an outdoor or tourism-based business in the heart of the countryside, then you could be in luck.

That’s because a rural package, now on the market for the first time in 80 years, offers excellent potential for a new owner to really make their mark.

The Green is a large detached house on the edge of the popular South Lakeland village of Cark-in-Cartmel, with scenic views and convenient for Cartmel itself, with its medieval priory, racecourse and claim to fame as the home of sticky toffee pudding.

This substantial 18th century property boasts many original features, including a wealth of characterful exposed beams, an impressive curved cruck-style beam structure in the attic bedroom and a bread oven in the downstairs inner hallway.

The dining room fireplace in the style of Robert Adam is believed to be Georgian.

In addition to this room there are two other reception rooms, plus ancillary rooms, and seven bedrooms in total set over two floors.

The Green has barns, outbuildings, garages, tennis court, orchard, woodland and a large garden that extends to almost two-and-a-half acres.

There are a further five separate lots of meadow ,pasture and 11-acre orchard which can be sold as a whole or separately.

The Green near Cark-in-Cartmel is for sale at £750,000 from Michael CL Hodgson, tel: 015395 33302