We wanted a house in York that would take eight adults in four rooms, with good facilities where we could cook and as near to being like home as we could get. This Marygate house fulfills every need. It is in itself a masterpiece of conversion from a small artisan style cottage, to an up to date comfortable, charming, modern, town house, where everthing works. There is a danger in decorating and furnishing a house like this, of it becoming bland and loosing character. Remarkably this has not happened here and the marriage between comfort, charm and practicality, is pretty near perfect. All the main facilities of York are within easy walking distance and the view of the Museum Garden's medieval entrance from the sitting room a delight. Under-floor heating in the kitchen made walking around barefoot on a snowy January day, a quirky delight. Our planned joint celebration of 160 years and nearly 60 years of marriage, could not have been better placed, both for us, our children and their children. Thank you so much.