It could, however, be reverted easily from single use as just one door connects the two cottages.
Stoupe Brow Cottage has an elevated position along a private lane, and offers three reception rooms and up to six bedrooms.
Its ground floor includes a conservatory with garden access, while the beamed dining kitchen has modern units, a breakfast bar and an inset oil-fired Aga stove with electric oven and hob.
There's an open-tread staircase to the first floor, and entry to the dual-aspect dining room.
A beamed sitting room has an open fireplace with stone surround, with French windows to the front terrace.
From the first floor landing is a door to outside.
Bedrooms include a large, beamed double with mesmerising views. A panelled cottage staircase leads up to attic rooms.
There's a through lobby or office, then another bedroom with a gable window and inland views.
The bathroom also has stairs to the dormer rooms, one of which has built-in storage.
The annexe is east of the main cottage and has a porch, a utility, a beamed living room with wood-burning stove, and a shower room.
Above are double and single bedrooms, the former with fitted furniture, and a bathroom.
The property has parking for two cars, with further parking beyond.
Fronting the annexe is a covered stone seating area, then an open porch and the conservatory.
The main garden has a patio and landscape rockery which leads down to mainly lawned, sloped gardens with fruit trees.
Stoupe Brow Cottage, Ravenscar, YO13 0NH is priced at £625,000, with Richardson and Smith, Whitby, tel. 01947 602298.