For Sale: one family home, complete with seven bedrooms, gymnasium, gallery, library, fabulous views but with a price tag of nearly £3 million.

The historic Myddelton Lodge near Ilkley has come back on to the property market for £2,975,000.

The chapel of the grade I listed hunting lodge has been converted into a gymnasium and family room, two-storeys high. Other features include vaulted cellars, two kitchens, three reception rooms, an office and nearly six acres of landscaped gardens and woodland.

But despite its vast space, it is still suitable for a family, according to Patrick McCutcheon, of Dacre, Son & Hartley.

“It’s a huge floor area but it really works from a family point of view. It’s not a house you feel overawed by. It feels very welcoming,” he said.

The Lodge, which dates back to 1260, was home for centuries to one of Ilkley’s most famous families, the Middletons.

It was bought as a spiritual retreat by the Passionist Fathers in 1922 and later sold to the Diocese of Leeds, which put the property on the market ten years ago, with a guide price of £750,000.

Neglected in the late 1990s, it was later restored to its former glory by private owners which won a conservation award from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

It was last put on the market in 2007, at a price of £2.85 million.

Mr McCutcheon said the level of interest in the property so far had been “pleasing”.

He said: “We’ve certainly found for the last 12 to 18 months that, despite the credit crunch, this end of the market doesn’t really seem to have suffered. There are a number of people out there who have got the equity required to buy at that level.”