It’s a lovely morning – if you’re sitting inside looking out at the sunshine – otherwise it’s still a bit chilly out there.

What a super day to be up in the Lake District, where there’s an interesting property coming under the auctioneers hammer soon. The starting price is 145,000 pounds but don’t expect to move in just yet. The property is a farmhouse has been unoccupied for several years but it idyllically situated along a dirt track and a couple of miles to the nearest public road.

It may be a bit tumbledown but it has an impressive name – Sleddale Hall, and it’s near Shap, in Cumbria. The farmhouse was used in the film Withnail and I, which starred Richard E Grant and Paul McGann and in the film the property was known as Uncle Monty’s Cottage.

The farmhouse has, as the estate agents like to put it, “many original features” and it sounds as though it’s all ready to make a really lovely family home for someone looking for a restoration project.

The agents are Savills and the auction is in Mid February – just in time to appreciate the snowdrops and daffodils in that lovely part of the country.