The Red House

By Sue Corbett
Posted: 2010/02/02

BUILT around 1820 as Johnstone Arms, the Red House is now a village house with an annexe, six bedrooms, three reception rooms, two bathrooms and a shower room.

Hackness, Scarborough

It also benefits from a garden, double garage, large workshop and a beer cellar.

The pub closed after Lady Derwent, wife of the estate owner  in the late 19th century, was so incensed by the blasphemous talk of the estate workers drinking outside it that she ordered a more orderly establishment to be built.

Edward Waterson of agent Carter Jonas says: “The closing ofinns by landowners was part of the temperance movement but the landowners often drank themselves silly at home.”

Hackness: Unspoilt estate village in Forge Valley, seven milesfrom Scarborough. Facilities include an inn, church, village halland tennis courts.

Price: £695,000 through Carter Jonas (carterjonas.co.uk; 01904 558 200).