Blending period charm and original features with a contemporary makeover, this large Edwardian home has lots to recommend it.

“It’s close to the town centre and Rickerby Park so we can enjoy lovely walks,” said owner Sheila Cassidy, “but unlike other period homes has the benefit of a garage/workshop for parking and a back garden.”

Sheila and daughter Jessie have occupied their home for three and a half years, attracted by its character and original details such as high ceilings with roses and cornicing, floorboards, fireplaces and a bay window.

“The house is very well laid out for a family with spacious rooms, a suntrap garden which is easily maintained and which has an arbour,” she said. “We refurbished the ground floor completely a few years ago and renovated the first-floor bathroom to reveal the period features from 1910 when the house was built.”

The sitting room, dining room and hallway have original polished floorboards and the lounge has solid oak flooring with both reception rooms kept cosy with multi-fuel stoves.

The sitting room has French doors opening to the enclosed back garden and the dining room has a gas fire on a granite hearth with wooden mantle.

This room also has storage in the form of understairs and built-in cupboards.

The dining kitchen is another spacious room with a range of cabinets, walk-in pantry with shelving and integrated fridge-freezer and dishwasher.

A utility room which is beyond the kitchen has a sliding door to the shower room and further door to the garage.

Going upstairs the land has access to a part-boarded loft and doors to the four double bedrooms. One has a built-in cupboard and another has a en-suite bathroom with shower cubicle.

The main family bathroom is a lovely light room with a three-piece suite and feature fireplace.

Outside the front garden, which has a view of Trinity School, is paved with a tree and plants and a side gate leads to the back garden and garage with a nice view of trees and gardens.

Sheila said: “This is a lovely large house and Jessie and I have been happy here but we moving as it’s just too big for us now.”

Strand Road, Carlisle, is for sale at £325,000 from H&H King, tel. 01228 810799.