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Inverness about 12 miles. Airport about 17 miles.

Offers over £475,000

Overview

About 1 acre (0.4 ha).

An immaculate late Victorian villa in a peaceful town location.

* Accommodation over two floors comprises:

Ground Floor: Entrance Vestibule. Main Hall. Drawing Room. Dining Room. Family Kitchen. Butler's Pantry. Bedroom 1. Shower Room. Back Porch.

First Floor: Master Bedroom with en suite Bathroom. 3 further Bedrooms, one en suite. Bathroom.

Annexe: Hall. Sitting Room. 2 Bedrooms. Bathroom.

* Garage and garden shed.

* Beautiful, sheltered gardens.

* Easy access to Inverness.

General

25 Castle Street lies in a peaceful, residential area of the market town of Dingwall. The house was built in the late 1800's for the town surgeon and his status within the community is reflected in this elegant, south facing house with its graceful reception rooms and generous accommodation. The house has been sympathetically modernised and upgraded by the current owners, yet still retains many of its original features including stained glass windows, fine woodwork, intricate cornicing and the doctor's consulting room, now a bedroom. To the rear of the house is an annexe, currently used as offices but with the potential to offer staff or letting accommodation.

Lying at the sheltered head of the Cromarty Firth and at the crossroads to the Highlands, Dingwall is a well established town with a long history and a thriving community. The busy high street offers a good range of shops, while throughout the town there are excellent amenities including a railway station, a newly built secondary school and high quality sports facilities. Inverness, a short drive away, has all the facilities of a modern city including its airport with regular flights to the South and summer flights to Europe.

Dingwall is set in a beautiful and varied landscape with majestic Ben Wyvis lying to the north of the town and the rolling farmland of the Black Isle to the south, while the West Coast, famous for it stunning coastline and sandy beaches, is under an hour's drive away. This unspoilt countryside offers many opportunities for rural sport and recreation whilst also being the home to many rare species of native wildlife including pine martens, red kites and ptarmigan.

DESCRIPTION

25 Castle Street is of stone and slate construction. From the public road, a driveway leads to a turning circle and a gravelled parking area suitable for several vehicles in front of the house.

Accommodation

An arched porch leads to the partly glazed stained glass front door with stained glass side panels opening to:

 

Entrance Vestibule

3m x 2.3m

With mosaic tiled floor, dado rail, cornicing, alarm panel and partly glazed, stained glass door opening to:

 

Main Hall

4m x 3.7m

With generous wooden staircase, Venetian chandelier, cornicing and doors off to:

 

Drawing Room

6.2m x 4.6m

A double aspect room with cornicing, wood panelled windows, recessed coal-effect gas fire, TV and telephone point.

 

Dining Room

5.6m x 4.6m

Triple aspect room with wood panelled windows, open fire with tiled surround, tiled hearth and intricate timber mantelpiece, serving hatch to Butlers Pantry with shelving below, cornicing and TV point.

Vestibule

1.4m x 1m

A partially glazed stain-glass door leads to a further vestibule, housing under stair cupboard and with doors off to:

Bedroom 1

3.9m x 2.8m

Formerly the doctor's surgery. With timber mantelpiece with shelving, recessed shelving with cupboard below, sink in timber vanity unit with shelving above and mirror.

Lobby

2.1m x 1.3m

With fitted wardrobe, mirror and door to:

Shower Room

2.3m x 2m

With corner shower cubicle with electric shower, wash hand basin, mirror, shaver light, WC and extractor fan.

Returning to the main hall, a further partially glazed stain-glass door leads to:

Kitchen

6.5m x 6.2m max

A double aspect, L shaped room which is spatially separated into two areas by a breakfast bar. The kitchen area has fitted floor and wall units, 1 ½ bowl stainless steel sink with drainer, integral gas range cooker with gas hob and extractor hood, plumbing for washing machine and plumbing for a dish-washer. The sitting area has partly panelled walls to dado height, bookshelves, wood burning stove on a slate hearth, display shelving to side, telephone point, TV point and doors off to:

Butler’s Pantry

3.1m x 1.9m

With fitted floor and wall cupboards, open shelving, coat hooks, door to terrace and serving hatch to dining room.

Back Porch

1.3m x 1.2m

With timber lined walls and ceiling and open square arch leading to side parking area.

Returning to the kitchen a further door leads to:

 

Annexe Hallway

2.9m x 1.7m max

With telephone point and doors to:

 

Bedroom

2.9m x 2m

Currently used as a workshop. With telephone point.

Sitting Room

4.8m x 3m

Currently used as an office. With sliding doors leading to the garden, TV point, telephone point and under stair cupboard.

From the annexe hall, stairs lead to the landing with skylight window and doors to:

Bathroom

3.1m x 2.4m max

With bath with electric power shower over, wash hand basin, mirror, WC, partly tiled walls, extractor fan and recessed cupboard housing hot water cylinder.

 

Bedroom

5.5m x 3.4m max

Currently used as a store room. A double aspect room with partly combed ceilings, one Velux window and fitted cupboard

Returning to the main hall, wide stairs lead to the first floor galleried landing, with proportions commensurate with the main hall, cornicing and door to:

 

Bedroom 2

5.2m x 4m

With timber mantelpiece, shelved cupboard, recess and television point.

Returning to the first floor landing, an open archway leads to a lobby housing fitted cupboard, door to bathroom and door to:

Bedroom 3

4.6m x 4m

A double aspect room with fitted cupboard, TV point and door to:

En suite Bathroom

3.3m x 2m

With bath, wash hand basin, mirror with integral lighting, WC, partly tiled walls and door returning to lobby.

Returning to the first floor landing, a further open archway leads to a lobby with door off to vestibule with door to walk-in wardrobe and open arch to:

Master Bedroom

4.6m x 3.8m

A double aspect room with fitted double cupboards, TV point, timber mantelpiece and open archway leading to:

En suite Bathroom

3.8m x 1.7m max

With bath, wash hand basin, WC, partly tiled walls and timber mantelpiece.

From the first floor landing an open archway leads to a corridor housing linen cupboard and with doors off to:

Family Bathroom

3.1m x 3m

A triple aspect room with bath with hand shower attachment, wash hand basin, mirror, bidet, WC, partly tiled walls and access to roof space.

Bedroom 5

4.7m x 3.3m

With two fitted cupboards, fireplace with cast iron surround and tiled inserts, timber mantelpiece and TV point.

OUTBUILDINGS

Boiler Room

3.3m x 0.8m

Integral to the house and accessed from the side parking area. Housing the gas fired boiler.

Garage

6.8m x 3.1m

Of timber construction under a felt roof, with double doors, concrete floor, inspection hatch, stand pipe and adjacent garden store.

GARDENS AND GROUNDS

The grounds at 25 Castle Street extend to approximately 1 acre. To the front of the house a gravelled driveway sweeps round a central turning area and mixed beds line the base of the house wall and run along the 6-8 foot stone wall which runs the entire length of the eastern boundary. Double wooden gates open to a gravelled parking area and from here a further wooden gate opens to the garden lying to the rear of the house. This sheltered and beautiful garden, remaining very much in its original layout, comprises island and wall beds planted with a mix of mature deciduous and coniferous specimen trees, a variety of fruit trees, shrubs and plants, underplanted with spring flowering bulbs and with grass paths meandering between the beds leading to hidden features and sitting areas. Nestled between the northern and eastern walls of the house is a Caithness flagstone terrace, the house walls here clad in roses and clematis, while at the foot of the garden there is an area of open woodland under planted with spring flowering bulbs.

Additional Information

SERVICES

Water Mains

Electricity Mains

Drainage Mains

Heating Mains gas

Internet Broadband

Partly double glazed

The Annexe has a separate electricity supply and hot water system.

COUNCIL TAX

25 Castle Street falls under Council Tax Band G.

DIRECTIONS

From Inverness take the A9 north. At the Tore roundabout take the A835 to Dingwall and Ullapool. At the next roundabout, turn right to Dingwall. After the first set of traffic lights, turn right at the next turning signposted to the railway station. At the end of this road go straight on, in to Castle Street. 25 Castle Street is on the left hand side.

MOVEABLES

All fitted carpets, curtains and light fittings are included in the sale. Further items may be available by separate negotiation.

NOTES

Similar to a number of houses in Dingwall, 25 Castle Street has been built on a clay sub structure. On completion of the build the house slipped very slightly, and while this is still evident today regular surveyors’ inspections have shown that there has been no further movement. A recent surveyor’s report is available to confirm this.

SOLICITORS

VIEWING

Viewing is by prior appointment only through the selling agents – CKD Galbraith. 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 the 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, thought a Scottish Lawyer, to CKD Galbraith, Reay House, 17 Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness, IV2 3HF.

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.