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Jun
Cluster of three grand houses under £5m on market in Vale of York
Anyone looking to buy a grand country house in the Vale of York this summer is in luck – there are three of them on the market, all within the same price bracket and all within a stone’s throw of each other.
Kirk Hammerton Hall is a grade II listed Georgian house dating from the mid-18th century with later 19th century alterations. It has seven bedrooms, four bathrooms, and stunning vaulted cellars – which are used for wine and a gym – plus 9.5 acres of grounds, with swimming lake, complete with sandy beach and boating jetty. Yours for £4.95 million, or thereabouts.
The three properties are all located within a three-mile radius.
Just the other side of the A59 to York, the same amount of money could buy you Whixley Hall, a grade II listed seven-bedroom house built in 1698. It has about 55 acres of gardens, grounds, woodland and paddocks surrounding the house, and there are a further 41 acres of parkland available south of the road. It also has nine stables plus tack and feed rooms – and a couple of cottages for extra rental income.
Clockwise from top left: Whixley Hall from the air, the lawns, outbuildings, and parkland. Photos: Savills.
Heading up the B-road to the next village, Little Ouseburn, Moat Hall is yet another grade II listed house, of unknown age but built around a core of medieval timbers. It has 33 acres of paddocks and grounds, with lake, tennis court and cottage – and a slightly lower guide price of £4.75 million.
Moat Hall in Little Ouseburn. Photo: Historic England/Alan Marsh.
So why are three such fabulous properties, all within just four miles of each other, on the market at the same time? Is it just coincidence, or are other factors at play?
Alex Goldstein, a Harrogate-based property consultant Alex Goldstein who specialises in the upper end of the market, told the Stray Ferret that it could have something to do with the planned Maltkiln development.
Councillors gave the go-ahead in November 2025 for the new 3,000-home village to be built immediately west of Kirk Hammerton and south of Whixley, and the local property market has seen plenty of movement in recent years as the scheme has loomed closer.
The plan for Maltkiln.
Alternatively, said Mr Goldstein, the three grand houses might have come to market at the same time by chance. He said:
It might just be coincidence – it does happen – but I couldn’t say for certain.
Or it could well simply be down the general economic situation. Unfortunately, the way the world has gone, the market is incredibly tough at the moment, and there are only so many people looking at upper-end properties like these.
The property market is all about confidence, and we’re not very robust at that at the moment. It’s very easy to talk yourself into a negative frame of mind, and I think that’s what we’ve done as a country. We need a return of the feelgood factor!
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