This former vicarage has been sensitively restored by the present owner to create a comfortable family home which retains many period features.

Highlights include intricate cornicing, original staircase, stained-glass vestibule and Portuguese marble fireplace with living accommodation arranged across three floors and seven bathrooms.

Enter the hallway through the original wooden entrance doors with tiled flooring and stained-glass door. The hallway has a solid wooden staircase with inset ornate brass figurine lamp and there is a cellar divided into a number of rooms.

The lounge is dual aspect with bay window and window seat, side window and gas fire set in marble fireplace. The second reception room also has a feature fireplace as has the dining room. All these rooms have cornicing and dado rails.

The dining kitchen has a range of Arthur Bonnet French wall and base units, central island, wide range of quality units and door into utility room. There is also a downstairs cloakroom.

Upstairs are seven bedrooms over two storeys, the master with en-suite facilities, family bathroom and sauna room.

Outside, wrought iron gates lead to a sweeping block paved driveway, providing off road parking for multiple vehicles. The landscaped grounds have circular steps leading up to the front of the house, mature lawned gardens with well-stocked borders, mature trees and shrubbery.

There is also an enclosed paved patio area, useful external store, two timber storage sheds, second driveway at the back of the house and a double garage.

Firth House, Low Moresby, Whitehaven, is for sale at£499,950 with PFK estate agents, tel: 01946 695535.