A spacious five-bedroom traditional Cumbrian farmhouse, which dates back to the 18th century, is for sale.

Meadow Lodge has been carefully restored and sits in around 1.5 acres of garden and paddocks.

A variety of character features have been retained and the property comes with stone outbuildings and a barn with full residential planning permission.

The home has a lounge, formal dining room, living room, breakfast kitchen, four double bedrooms and one single bedroom, family bathroom and shower room, gardens, stone built outhouses, large barn and paddocks.

Entering into an entrance porch, then hallway, there are stairs to the first floor and wooden doors to the rooms.

The living room has a large cast-iron fireplace in a carved wooden surround and open plan access to the kitchen.

With views to the back of the house, the kitchen has a door to the yard and back garden.

There is a range of units in a white wood effect finish, exposed beams, breakfast bar, space and point for free standing electric cooker and space and plumbing for under-counter dishwasher.

Looking out from the front, the dining room has wooden shutters and plenty of character displaying original features including carved moulding, cast-iron and brick built fireplace with sandstone surround and hearth, scalloped alcove shelving and storage cupboard.

A large pantry provides useful storage area and has spotlights, electricity supply, wall mounted shelving and can easily accommodate a large chest freezer or freestanding fridge freezer.

The lounge benefits from views to the front and back of the house and has wooden shutters, open fire with slate hearth and wooden surround.

Also with dual views, the study has a wall-mounted cupboard containing the electricity meter and circuit board.

On the first-floor landing is a large picture window which provides open views over the back garden.

A mahogany banister and balustrade lead to the landing area and wooden doors lead to all rooms.

The master bedroom is large, with two sliding sash windows with wooden shutters and a feature cast-iron fireplace in a wooden surround.

A second bedroom looks over the garden and gives loft access via a hatch. Bedroom three is spacious, with sliding sash windows and wooden shutters.

Bedroom four looks out from the front and includes spotlights. The fifth bedroom is a single bedroom with loft access via a hatch and there is a family bathroom and additional shower room

At the front of the property is an impressive gated private driveway leading into the front garden.

The large garden has a lawn, mature trees, shrubs, flowerbeds and a seating area.

There is also a small brook running through the centre of the garden from a nearby natural spring.

A gated access leads into a small paddock area with a variety of mature trees.

Gravelled access leads round to the back of the house, where there is a large cobbled courtyard offering off-road parking for several vehicles.

A large stone-built barn with traditional cruck beams gives further access to a walled vegetable garden.

As part of the barn, there are several stone-built outbuildings which can be used for workshops, storage areas or could be converted, and two further stone byres.

Meadow Lodge, Gilcrux, is for sale at £475,000 through PFK Estate Agents, tel: 01900 826205.