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St Nicolas House & Coach House, Ballplay Road, Moffat, Dumfriesshire, DG10

Key features

  • Detached family house & cottage
  • Quiet and leafy setting
  • £50,000 below HR valuation
  • 3 reception rooms
  • 4 bedrooms
  • Kitchen and utility room
  • Attic playroom/home office
  • 2 bedroom cottage
  • EPC Rating = E

Description

Well proportioned Victorian family house in elevated position with further accommodation in converted coach house

Location

Edinburgh 52 miles, Glasgow 59 miles

St Nicolas is a wonderful Victorian home set in an elevated position within beautiful gardens on the edge of the former market town of Moffat. The town has its roots in tourism and agriculture. It grew from a modest village to a renowned spa town frequented by the Victorians and its accessible geographical position made it a popular market town, most notably for the wool trade, a history commemorated by the statue of a ram in the market place by the 19th century sculptor William Brodie.

There are excellent opportunities for country sports in the area, with tennis, golf, shooting and fishing available locally and hill walking in the nearby Annandale and Queensberry Hills and links to the Southern Upland Way.   The town has a good range of quality shops and professional services, as well as hotels, restaurants, a golf course and a distinguished modern combined school offering nursery to sixth year studies. Dumfries, 21 miles to the south, is an active town which provides a wider range of facilities, including a hospital, a retail park, supermarkets, sports clubs and further professional services.

Moffat is well positioned for the road network being only 1� miles away from the M74, the main route between England and Scotland. The motorway connects the town to both Glasgow to the north and the M6, Carlisle and England to the south. The A701 and A702 provide good links to the east of Scotland.   Lockerbie (17 miles) has a mainline station giving a train link to both Edinburgh and Glasgow and to the south.

Description

St Nicolas dates from around 1870. It is a stone built property under a slate roof with a detached coach house and retains many original features such as ornate cornicing, working shutters and the servant's bells located in the kitchen.

The main entrance to the house opens into a vestibule with the original tiled floor which leads into the reception hall through a timber partition with glazed panels above and to the side of the partly glazed door. The principal reception rooms are on either side with windows, both with working shutters, overlooking the garden to the front. The carpeted drawing room has a triple bay window with blinds and curtains. It also has a working fireplace on a tiled hearth with cast iron surround under a timber mantel. The dining room, which has a stripped wooded floor, has a shelved press and also has a working fireplace. The cast iron surround is also set beneath a timber mantel and has decorative tiling to the sides.   A comfortable sitting room with wooden floor and a multi-fuel stove would work well as a study.   

The kitchen has painted wooden fitted units with granite worktops, ceramic sink and integrated dishwasher. The cooker is a Smeg gas range with six burners and two ovens with an integrated extractor fan over. There is space for a free standing fridge freezer. There is a utility room and a WC to the back of the house where the back door opens onto the cobbled courtyard.    The utility room has space and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer beneath the worktop. The understair cupboard has been incorporated into a useful store accessed from the utility room.

At the mid landing there is a family bathroom which has timber panelling beneath the dado rail. There is a free standing bath, heated towel rail, wash basin, WC and oversized quadrant shower as well as a linen cupboard. On the first floor there are four good sized bedrooms, all with working shutters. The master bedroom has fitted wardrobes and an en suite shower room with shower, wash basin, WC and bidet.

When the property was reroofed the opportunity was taken to renovate the attic space. This is accessed by Ramsay ladder. It is an expansive playroom or home office and has superb natural light through the Velux windows. There is eaves storage.

Coach House

The former coach house has been converted into a two bedroom cottage with shower room and open plan kitchen and living room. This accommodation has excellent income producing potential as long or short holiday lets or could be used as dependent relative's accommodation or for guest accommodation.

GARDENS AND GROUNDS

St Nicolas is approached along an asphalt driveway leading through stone gate pillars from the public road. The house is set back from the road behind a hedge and a large flat lawn flanked by mature trees. Terraced flower beds rise up to a sitooterie and a gravel parking area to the front of the house which is adorned with a climbing rose. To the rear of the house is a cobbled courtyard and behind the coach house there is a kitchen garden with greenhouse and a washing green bounded by a beech hedge.   There is a large garden shed as well as a log and coal shelter.

GENERAL REMARKS

Services:
Mains gas, electricity and drainage. Gas fired central heating with electric night storage heating in attic and coach house.

Local Authority:
Dumfries and Galloway Council tax band G.

Fixtures and Fittings:
Standard fixtures and fittings are included in the sale along with the curtains throughout the property.

Solicitor:
A & S Ireland
18 Waterloo Street
Glasgow
G2 6DB
Phone: 0141 227 8200
Fax: 0141 227 8219

Square Footage: 3421 sq ft
Acreage: 0.47 Acres

Directions

Edinburgh 52 miles, Glasgow 59 miles

From Edinburgh, take the A701 south to Moffat. In Moffat turn left onto Eastgate. Continue onto Well Road and turn right onto Ballplay Road. The entrance to St Nicolas is the second entrance on the left after Eastfield Rise.

From Glasgow take the M74 south before turning off at junction 15 following signs to Moffat. Follow the A701 north into Moffat. Once in Moffat, turn right onto Holm Street (A708). Continue along The Holm and over two mini roundabouts. Turn left onto Ballplay Road. The entrance to St Nicolas is on the right beyond the Well View guest house.

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