Ullock, Workington, CA14 4TP

The House Where The Children Can Grow Up With Fields Behind Them. Four bedrooms, four reception rooms, and open fell views that never get old. Cockermouth and Workington are both fifteen minutes away when you need them.

There's a moment, usually sometime on a Sunday morning, when you realise the house you're in has stopped fitting the life you're living. The rooms feel smaller. The garden feels like someone else's idea of outside. And the kids are on top of each other in ways that felt manageable two years ago and don't anymore.

The Old House at Ullock is the answer to that feeling.

A proper detached family home, it offers four bedrooms, four reception rooms, two bathrooms, a utility, a garage and a conservatory that opens onto a raised garden with an open field directly behind it. Stand at the back and you're looking out over working farmland to the fells beyond. It's the kind of view that makes you stop, every time, however long you've lived there.

The house has been in the same family since 1967, and you can feel it. The parquet flooring in what has traditionally been used as the library room has the warm, slightly uneven character of something that's been walked on for decades and is better for it. The exposed beam running across the kitchen ceiling does the same job - it tells you this is a place that has been lived in properly, not dressed up for a sale. The gas stove in the main sitting room means winter evenings will feel exactly the way winter evenings should feel in a house like this.

The layout has grown organically over the years. You come in through a front porch into the main sitting room with the stove, then through to a second reception room that works equally well as a formal dining room or a home office. That leads into the kitchen-diner, which has been updated with shaker-style cabinetry and stone-effect worktops - practical and usable as it stands, with scope to develop further in time. Beyond the kitchen is the parquet-floored room that's served the family as a library, and then the conservatory, which catches the light well and gives you that connection to the garden and the view beyond.

There's also a utility room, a ground floor WC, internal access to the garage, and a rear porch. For a family actually living here, with school bags and muddy boots, the weekly shop, the dog and everything else that comes with it, that ground floor just works.

Upstairs, there are three double bedrooms and a single. The main bedroom has an en-suite with a bath. The family bathroom is a shower room. Some of the décor upstairs is dated, and a new owner will likely want to put their own mark on certain rooms over time - but this is a home you can move into on a Saturday and start living in properly, not a building site that needs to be resolved before life can begin.

Ullock is about fifteen minutes from both Cockermouth and Workington, which between them cover everything a family needs day to day, from supermarkets and shops to restaurants and leisure facilities. Dean C of E School, the nearest primary, is around a five-minute drive. Workington Academy and Cockermouth's secondary schools are both within that same fifteen-minute window.

If you've been watching West Cumbrian property for a while, you'll know that finding genuine family space, real character and a countryside setting at a price that makes sense is not easy. The Old House at Ullock answers all three at once.

Get in touch to arrange a viewing - we're expecting real interest in this one.