A COUNTRY estate featuring a ten-bedroom mansion and hundreds of acres of land in the Tyne Valley has gone up for sale for the first time in 145 years.

The magnificent house - which has 5 reception rooms, 10 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and an integral flat - is listed on Zoopla as part of the Blenkinsopp Estate, near Haltwhistle.

The estate is described as a "delightful rural Northumberland estate with a handsome house of high calibre at its centre. The estate has good scale and there is genuine potential to create attractive income streams from a variety of enterprises.

"On the market for the first time for 145 years, the sale represents a generational opportunity to purchase one of Northumberland's pre-eminent estates."

The estate will set buyers back a hefty £4,850,000 - but for that, they will get the grade-II listed Blenkinsopp Hall, nine estate cottages. a stable block including two cottages and an estate office, a walled garden, formal policies and lake, and 539.9 acres of land - split up into pasture and woodland.

Buyers will also have access to almost a mile of double bank trout fishing on the Tipalt Burn, as well as Roe deer stalking.

The estate agent's description adds: "Whether it is sporting, farming, tourism development, woodland management, re-wilding or the concept of natural capital, Blenkinsopp offers a multitude of opportunities to buyers."

Full details of the property can be found on Zoopla here.