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Guide Price£1,495,000

Keld Head, Pickering

Land size
1.23 acres
Bedrooms
5
Bathrooms
3

Key Features

  • High Quality Lifestyle and Leisure property
  • Holiday Cottage Complex extending to No.9 Cottages
  • Residential accommodation comprising four-bedroom house
  • Well presented with opportunity for further development
  • Attractively and conveniently situated on the edge of Pickering Town
  • In all, set within 1.23-acres including mature gardens and grounds

Description

Keld Head Farm Cottages comprise a high-quality lifestyle and leisure property including No.9 holiday cottage complex, managers residence together with ancillary facilities and in all set in 1.23-acres on the edge of the market town of Pickering. The property was first developed in 1989 with the sympathetic conversion of a range of barns to form No.7 cottages within an attractive courtyard setting. No.2 cottages have been added since and Keld Head Farm Cottages now offers the opportunity to take the leisure business forward. The Croft comprises the residential accommodation and includes central reception with visitor information point and office. The private accommodation leads on with study, kitchen, utility, dining room, cloakroom, lobby and dual aspect living room. To the first floor there is a Master Bedroom with en-suite, shower accommodation, three further bedrooms and family bathroom. The property offers opportunity to create additional visitor accommodation with independent access and first floor sitting room, store offering potential to create a kitchen and bathroom facilities. Keld Head Farm Cottages extends to No.9 holiday cottages with ability to accommodate between 2 and 8 guests. The cottages sit within an attractive courtyard setting with each benefiting from designated parking and external seating areas. The cottages are all self-catered and offer well-presented accommodation with communal facilities available. They have generated a good annual turnover with Gross Revenue (exclusive of VAT) of over £80,000 for 2023 and over £95,000 for 2024. There are forward bookings confirmed to the value of £60,000 for 2025 and further trading information can be provided upon request.

In all, the property sits in 1.23-acres and includes mature gardens, picnic, summer house and BBQ areas, children's playground and playing field. The facilities also include laundry room and visitor information point. LOCATION The property is situated in an attractive, yet accessible position, on the edge of the popular market town of Pickering. The town centre is set only 0.75-miles east and is often referred to as the “gateway to the Moors”. There are range of visitor attractions including North York Moors Railway with terminus set within the town as well as weekly markets. Amenities include convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants, public houses, food outlets and fuel filling stations. The market town of Kirkbymoorside is only just over 6 miles distant and provides a range of services and amenities including schools, supermarkets, shops, public houses, restaurants, food outlets, sporting and recreational activities. The popular market town of Malton is set approximately 9 miles due south and offers a further range of services and amenities including educational and health care institutes with doctors, dental surgery and hospital. The town also includes train station providing links to Scarborough, Leeds and York. The historic City of York is situated approximately 26 miles away and is an economic hub for the region with high class facilities including mainline trains available to Kings Cross, London within 2 hours. FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY AS A WHOLE GUIDE PRICE: £1,495,000

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
D
Date Posted
2026-04-16

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 8 Holiday Lets listings in Yorkshire and The Humber (1+ acres).

This Property£1,215,447 / acre
Holiday Lets Average (1+ acres) £169,445 / acre
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Utilities & Restrictions

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Rights & Restrictions

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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

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Parking
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

10 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre · available to 67% of premises

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy380 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    84
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • Pickering Community Junior School564 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    7 to 11
    Pupils
    184
    Type
    Community school
  • Pickering Community Infant School0.9 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 7
    Pupils
    197
    Type
    Community school
  • Thornton Dale CofE Primary School2.8 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    146
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Sinnington Community Primary School3 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    110
    Type
    Academy converter

Secondary

  • Lady Lumley's Academy580 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    676
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Malton School7.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    999
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Ryedale School8.2 milesOfsted: Outstanding
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    698
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Norton School8.6 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    651
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Graham School14 milesOfsted report card · Feb 2026
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    893
    Type
    Academy sponsor led

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Spar - Main Street Middleton, Middleton, North Yorkshire, YO18520 metres
Lidl Pickering, Pickering0.7 miles
Co-op Market Place Pickering, Pickering0.7 miles

GP surgery

Pickering Medical Practice953 metres

Pharmacy

Pickering Pharmacy0.7 miles

Hospital

Malton Community Hospital7.8 miles

Green space

Play Space266 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

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Getting Around

Nearest station

Malton Rail Station8.2 miles

Nearest bus stop

Northway202 metres

Typical drive times

Malton15 min · 9.1 miles
Pickering2 min · 0.8 miles
York (city)39 min · 27 miles
Kirkbymoorside10 min · 6.4 miles
Norton-on-Derwent16 min · 11 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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