Alnwick, Northumberland Guide price £1,300,000

Heckley House is situated in an enviably convenient and beautiful location at the end of a private drive and in the heart of its own land. The driveway culminates in a gravelled parking and turning area at the front of the house. Despite the elevated setting, Heckley House is sheltered by a stand of mature mixed deciduous woodland on the windward side.

The entrance is into a formal and most welcoming reception hall with an impressive staircase leading to first and second floors. The two principal reception rooms being the drawing room and dining room are arranged on the southern elevation with superb views from each room. These rooms have high ceilings and elegant proportions with feature fireplaces and working window shutters to the sash windows. A communicating door from the dining room leads to the breakfasting kitchen. The breakfasting kitchen is fitted with an appealing range of base and wall mounted units and the cream 4 oven oil fired Aga acts as a focal point to the room. There is ample space in the kitchen for family and informal dining. The back kitchen/utility room is immediately off the kitchen.

Beyond the rear hall which also has access to the extensive cellars is the library or family room with extensive fitted bookshelves and wood burning stove set within an inglenook fireplace. A half glazed door provides access to the walled garden. The study gives access to the cloakroom and has a half glazed door to the northern elevation.

The first floor accommodation is arranged from two landings. The principal bedroom has two high sash windows with working shutters. It has a communicating door to the large en-suite bathroom with an island bath, separate power shower, twin basins, a WC and bidet and an extensive range of fitted wardrobes. There is a pretty open fireplace (now blocked) with original stone surround and a timber mantel.

The guest bedroom has similarly elegant proportions with the same wonderful views to the south. There are two more bedrooms on the first floor and a family bathroom with bath and separate power shower. Two further staircases lead to three further bedrooms and the third bathroom. Bedroom 7 has been most recently used as a games room or occasional study and has access to the useful fully floored roof space with electric light.

The tarmacadam drive continues to the east from Heckley House beyond the walled garden and through a stand of mature trees culminating in a gravelled parking and turning area dedicated to Heckley Cottage. The cottage is ideally placed on the periphery of this mini estate and has a good area of lawn and kitchen garden to the east.   

Heckley Cottage
Heckley Cottage is an attractive stone built single storey cottage beneath a slate roof extended and rebuilt with all modern amenities in 2002. It has a large detached stone built garage (5.5m x 5.4m) and some useful stores across a gravelled courtyard.

Heckley Cottage has 2 bedrooms with a modern shower room facility, en suite to the master bedroom. There is one principal reception room with high beamed vaulted ceiling, a jet master gas fire and a half glazed door to patio in southern elevation. There is a good breakfasting kitchen with dining area.




The convenience of the location allows ease of access to Alnwick, Morpeth and Alnmouth Station which has direct and regular rail links to Edinburgh, Newcastle and Kings Cross.

Heckley House is situated in the heart of Percy country enjoying a rural location with outstanding views to the Northumberland coastline yet only 2 miles from the popular and pretty county town of Alnwick home to the famous Alnwick Castle and Alnwick Gardens.

There are good schooling facilities in Alnwick and the Newcastle schools are convenient given the location of Alnmouth Station. The house has ready access to the Northumberland Heritage Coast and Northumberland National Park.   

Morpeth is a pretty market town about 20 miles to the south and Newcastle upon Tyne about 35 miles to the South is within easy striking distance given the convenience of access from the house to the A1.


Outbuildings        At the rear of the walled garden is a useful range of various stone outbuildings currently used as stores and hen houses.   In addition to the two garages (5.8m x 3.078m and 4.72m x 4.54m) there is a further range of outbuildings.

Stabling                                                                                                                      A detached stone built traditional stable block with grooved concrete floor and timber kicking boards with iron partitions above to three boxes. Separate tack room.

Garden and Grounds                    The garden and grounds to Heckley House are without doubt a key feature of this superb property. A high stone wall along the northern edge of the formal garden provides a fabulous south facing, heat retaining feature. The formal landscaped gardens are divided into a number of “rooms” by topiary and mature hedges.

A stand of mixed mature woodland lies to the west and north of the house and straddles the drive. These trees obscure view of the house from the road. There are two additional mature copses.

Two grass paddocks of about 8 acres lie on the southern boundary in front of the house