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Overview

An enchanting former factor’s house with paddock, lying in most attractive countryside

The accommodation over two floors comprises:

• Ground Floor: Vestibule. Hall. Dining Room. Drawing Room. Sitting Room. Kitchen. Pantry. Cloakroom. Gun Room. Laundry. Coal/Wood Shed. Estate Office with Strong Room off. Garden Cloakroom.

• First Floor: Landing. Four Bedrooms. Bathroom. Shower Room.

• Useful outbuildings with garaging.

• Colourful garden with borders and trees.

• 1.5 acre paddock.

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General

Woodlands lies conveniently close to Perth and yet in the heart of attractive wooded countryside. Locally, Balbeggie provides for all day to day requirements, including a good primary school, post office, garage and general store. Kinrossie, half a mile away also has a primary school, church and post office. Perth, the county town, lies approximately seven miles to the south and provides a wide range of facilities, including good shopping and banks as well as the concert hall, theatre and railway station. Perthshire is renowned for its picturesque countryside which includes a complete range of sporting amenities, including excellent golf courses, hill walking, fishing and shooting.

Description

Woodlands is a most attractive stone built family home, lying in a pretty and established garden. The house was built as the factor’s residence for Dunsinnan Estate and includes many of its original fine details, including excellent woodwork, plastered cornices and fireplaces. The house has been thoroughly maintained during the occupancy and ownership of the present proprietor and their antecedents, from the date of construction in 1900. The property benefits from either double or secondary glazing on the ground floor and some on the first floor.

The house enjoys a most practical and sensible layout with three excellent reception rooms, a practical and large family kitchen, conveniently placed close to the dining room and the usual rear quarters. At first floor level the house includes four good sized bedrooms, bathroom and shower room. Unusually, the property also includes the former estate office which, though enjoying an independent access, is adjoining the property and offers enormous possibilities. With its strong room off, this office could be ideal either in its current use or providing a further reception room, bedroom or playroom. The large internal coal/wood shed and garden cloakroom also offer an opportunity for conversion to additional ground floor accommodation.

The present owners are keen gardeners and Woodlands benefits from years of careful planting and nurturing, so that at all times of year the property is a show of colour.

To the north is a small paddock, extending to approximately one and a half acres, which will provide useful grazing.

The accommodation on two floors comprises:

Accommodation

Ground Floor

Steps up to:

Vestibule

With cornice.

 

Hall

With cornice, parquet floor, pitch pine doors, architraves and skirting boards, radiator. Stairs to first floor.

 

Dining Room

With coal effect gas fire in cast iron hearth with tiled slips and pine surround, cornice, radiator, hatch to kitchen.

 

Drawing Room

With a Baxi open fire with marble hearth and slips with pine Adam style surround, cornice, bay window with pine panelling to walls and ceiling, display alcove with cupboards under, radiator.

Sitting Room

With Baxi open fire with polished slate hearth and slips with pine surround and mantel shelf, cornice, bookshelves, radiator.

Kitchen

Range Master 110 gas range with hobs, griddle and ceramic hot plates with two ovens, grill and pan drawer, extractor with copper hood over, stainless steel sink and double drainer, extensive fitted floor and wall cupboards, partly tiled walls, plumbing for dishwasher and hatch to dining room, radiator, meter cupboards.

Pantry

With extensive shelves, cupboard.

Understairs Cupboard

Cloakroom

With pedestal wash hand basin, radiator, coat hooks with shelf over, WC with wooden seat.

Rear Hall

With radiator, back door and access to loft.

Gun Room

With ample shelves and security window (alarmed).

Laundry

With stainless steel sink and drainer, cupboards, plumbing for washing machine, radiator, pulley.

Coal/Wood Shed

The first floor is reached by taking the timber staircase of pitch pine with polished hardwood handrail and cast iron balusters, leading up to a generous landing.

Landing

With cornice, access to three bedrooms, corridor to remaining accommodation, two smoke alarms. Loft access to water storage tanks.

Bedroom 1

With shelved and hanging wardrobes, radiator.

Bedroom 2

With extensive shelved and hanging wardrobes, radiator.

Master Bedroom

With extensive shelved and hanging wardrobes, radiator.

Bathroom

With bath, wash hand basin with cupboards under, heated towel rail, shaver socket, wall mounted electric heater, WC, mirror fronted medicine cabinet.

Boiler Cupboard

With Potterton Kingfisher gas fired boiler, housing hot water cylinder.

Deep Walk-in Linen Cupboard

With slatted shelves and heated towel rail.

Shower Room

With Mira mixer shower in fully tiled enclosure, wash hand basin with cupboards under, heated towel rail, mirror, light and shaver socket, wall mounted electric heater, WC.

Bedroom 4

With shelved and hanging wardrobe, with integrated dressing table and radiator.

The Estate Office is attached, but independent from the house and provides:

Porch

With tongue and groove timber walls and ceiling.

Office

With cornice, electric panel heater, wall press, plan cabinet and door to:

Strong Room

With extensive shelving and Milner fire resisting safe.

Garden Cloakroom

With wash hand basin, WC.

Garage

Two-car garage of timber frame and corrugated iron construction with wood lining, dog kennel and run and large lean-to workshop/tool shed. Overhead electricity supply. From the main road a chipped asphalt drive provides access to the garage and further parking for at least six cars.

Garden

The garden is largely south-facing and provides interest and colour at all times of the year.

From the front door a path leads to a generous lawn edged with an herbaceous border, rose bed and rockery. By the house itself there are colourful shrubs including hydrangea, choisia and roses giving added interest. There are four apple trees, which lie to the east and a most unusual contorted witch hazel and forsythia to the south. To the west is a productive vegetable garden enjoying the afternoon sun. To the rear of the house is a pretty and private further lawn area with a collection of spring bulbs, two flowering cherries and a Victoria plum tree. The drive is flanked by a low stone wall, rhododendrons and mature trees including holly and crab apple.

Paddock

There is a paddock, extending to 1.5 acres lying to the north and east of the house. This would provide excellent grazing, shelter and privacy for woodlands.

Additional Information

Services

Water Private .

Drainage Private

Electricity Mains

Gas Mains

Full intruder alarm system including independent control of office.

Council tax

Woodlands falls into Band G

Moveables

Fitted carpets are included, together with light fittings except those in dining room and landing. Curtains and white goods are excluded from the sale.

Directions

From Perth take the A94 signed to Coupar Angus, continue on this road through Scone and Balbeggie. After about 2 miles, Woodlands is to be seen on the left hand side of the road.

Solicitors

Condies,

2 Tay Street,

Perth

PH1 5LJ

Tel: 01738 440088

Fax: 01738 441131

Viewing

Viewing is by prior appointment only through the Selling Agents, CKD Galbraith, Lynedoch House, Barossa Place, Perth PH1 5EP - Telephone 01738 451111. The person who may accompany you however may not be an employee of CKD Galbraith.

Selling Agents / Local CKD Galbraith Office

IMPORTANT NOTES

1. These particulars are intended to give a fair and overall description of the property. If any points are relevant to your interest, please ask for further information, prior to viewing. Prospective purchasers are advised to seek their own professional advice.

2. Areas, measurements and distances are given as a guide. Photographs depict only certain parts of the property. Nothing within the particulars shall be deemed to be a statement as to the structural condition, nor the working order of services and appliances.

3. These particulars shall not be binding on our clients whether acted on or otherwise, unless the same is incorporated within a written document, signed by our clients or on their behalf, satisfying the requirements of Section 3 of The Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995.

4. Closing Date

A closing date may be fixed. Prospective purchasers who have notified their interest through lawyers to CKD Galbraith, in writing, will be advised of a closing date, unless the property has been sold previously.

The Seller will not be obliged to accept the highest, or indeed any offer and has the right to accept an offer at any time or withdraw the property from the market. The Seller will not be liable for any costs incurred by interested parties.

5. Offers

Formal offers in the acceptable Scottish form should be submitted, through a Scottish Lawyer, to CKD Galbraith, Lynedoch House, Barossa Place, Perth PH1 5EP.

6. Third Party Rights and Servitudes

The subjects are sold together with and subject to all existing rights of way, servitudes, wayleaves and others whether contained in the Title Deeds or otherwise, and purchasers will be deemed to have satisfied themselves in all respects thereof.

The paddock may only be used for agricultural, horticultural, grazing, forestry or garden purposes. There is a specific prohibition against development.

There is a right of pre-emption over the subjects in favour of the neighbouring estate.