An unusual detached home is for sale in Wark, with character throughout and offering lovely views and peacefulness, located away from the village centre on the road to Stonehaugh.

It is available for immediate possession and has a range of outbuildings which have scope for conversion to perhaps a bothy or bunkhouse as the property is on the Pennine Way, which brings thousands of walkers into Northumberland every year.

Chris and Sonia Caudle moved there 14 years ago with their sons Adam and Oscar. They relocated from within Wark, attracted by the unusual construction of The Brewery which is set over three floors, with cellars underneath the drive.

Sonia, a nurse in Morpeth, said: "The house was built in about the 1830s and there used to be a row of cottages at the back of it called Westmorland Cottages which has since been demolished.

"It was run as a brewery, or at least for a very short period of time, I think. The cottages used to come right into the yard here then the house was built using colliery bricks from Newcastle and it’s just a really unusual shape, probably because of the space it was built in. It has so much space inside and outside, it’s really unusual."

On the ground floor The Brewery has a breakfasting kitchen with integrated appliances, a Rayburn set in an inglenook, oak wall and floor units, a breakfast bar and underfloor heating.

The dining room has a multi-fuel stove, also set in an inglenook, and a laminate floor with underfloor heating.

The first-floor landing gives access to the lounge, with open fire, and family bathroom. This has a roll-top bath, shower cubicle with raindrop shower head, tiled floor and built-in airing cupboard. There are two windows.

Two bedrooms are also on the first floor, one of them with an en-suite, the other with alcove storage. The other two bedrooms are on the second floor, along with a toilet, and both have feature brick fireplace and Velux windows.

"The house used to be two flats, one top and one bottom," Sonia said. "There's an original fireplace in the sitting room, in fact there are fireplaces all the way up but they’re boxed in.

"My favourite room is probably the kitchen because it’s lovely and warm, it’s the heart of the house. It tends to be the place we sit in the evening when we come in from work and relax.

"We’ve completely renovated the house. It’s been rewired, the roof has been maintained, all the walls and joists have been replaced, it was a complete internal rebuild, really.

"We haven’t done anything with the cellars because they aren’t actually attached to the house, they’re outside and under the drive. We’ve used them for storage but there is an opportunity there for someone."

Outside are gravelled gardens front and back but the Caudles rent an adjacent plot, an arrangement which could be continued by a new owner.

They're moving because younger son Oscar, who is at school in Hexham, has rugby training at Kingston Park several times a week. Coupled with Sonia working in Morpeth, and Chris working in Durham as a firefighter, there is a lot of driving involved.

"I really wish we could pick the property up and bring it into Hexham," said Sonia. "I love the house and the village, it’s just that logistically we had to do something different."

The Brewery, Wark, is for sale at £275,000 from Red Hot Property, tel. 01434 601800.