High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6

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THE PROPERTY
A semi-detached two storey villa dating back to 1920s offering a fully flexible accommodation layout currently configured to provide three double bedrooms and family bathroom upstairs with lounge, separate dining-room, conservatory and wet room with separate toilet off on the ground floor. The property commands an enviable High Street location in the heart of the popular tourist town of Kirkcudbright with its working harbour and numerous art galleries. The property benefits from gas central heating and double glazing throughout. The property offers an ideal opportunity to relocate to a glorious spot close to the spectacular bays of Kirkcudbrightshire and would make an ideal permanent or holiday home for families and extended families. Viewing is essential to appreciate all this property has to offer both inside and out.

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ACCOMMODATION
Access to the property is through the welcoming entrance to the front opening into the main hallway providing access to the lounge to the front of the property with dining-room leading to the conservatory to the rear as well as the kitchen and downstairs toilet and fully accessible wet-room. From the hallway the staircase leads to the upper floor accommodation comprising three double bedrooms and family bathroom, with additional storage off the first floor landing previously a shower room with electric shower not currently in use. Both the lounge and dining-room feature tiled fireplaces with gas fires inset and the heated conservatory provides direct access to the outdoor space to the rear. The kitchen comprises a range of fitted wall and base cabinets with contrasting work surfaces and tiled splash-back. There is an electric oven with gas hob, one and a half bowl sink and drainer unit, plumbing for a dish-washer and washing machine as well as ample space for both a range of additional free-standing under counter kitchen appliances and for informal dining. All three bedrooms are doubles with views to Kirkcudbright skyline and beyond. The downstairs wet room has a fully accessible mixer shower and there is a separate toilet with wash hand basin. The first floor family bathroom comprises a bath, wash hand basin and toilet.

Finishing off outside, the property offers low maintenance garden grounds to both the front and the rear with a raised planter to the front and timber garden shed to the rear. The boundaries to the property are formed by low level brick wall and timber fence.

TRANSPORT, SCHOOLS & AMENITIES
Kirkcudbright offers nursery pre-school provision, primary and secondary schools, as well as a wide range of individual shops, supermarkets, restaurants, pubs, hotels, offices, doctors and dentists. Kirkcudbright, the Artists’ town, also has its own community swimming pool and the newly refurbished Kirkcudbright Galleries arts centre with its own coffee shop and exhibitions, celebrating the town’s links with the renowned Glasgow Boys artists’ colony. Kirkcudbright is a picturesque harbour town situated on the River Dee, surrounded by glorious coastline with holiday centres at Brighouse Bay, Borgue, Sandgreen and Auchenlarie with spectacular sunsets and views of the Murray Isles. Historic Kirkcudbright hosts annual arts festivals, summer activities programme, its own Tattoo with Ceilidh, jazz and traditional music events and the Kirkcudbrightshire County Show. It boasts a cookery school and award-winning dining experiences including The Auld Alliance and Selkirk Arms Hotel, while Castle Douglas, the region’s Food Town is 9 miles away. The new Dark Space Plantarium opened in the summer of 2021 created by Kirkcudbright Development Trust transforming in the old Johnston School building. This state-of-the-art visitor attraction will ‘inform and educate people of all ages celebrating the majesty and infinity of space, the wonders of science and the magic of the nearby Dark Skies Park.’ A broader range of amenities, plus a university campus and new hospital is available in the regional capital of Dumfries, some 26 miles away. The South West of Scotland is well-known for its mild climate, attractive unspoilt countryside and the diversity of sporting and recreational pursuits. There are good hill walking opportunities in the nearby Galloway Hills and cycling along the newly-designated cycle routes, as well as the Seven Stanes mountain bike routes in the Galloway Forest Park. There are varied sporting opportunities such as trout and salmon fishing on the regions numerous lochs and rivers. For golf enthusiasts, there is the championship course at Southerness and several other courses nearby, including Kirkcudbright, Cally Palace, Castle Douglas, Dalbeattie, and New Galloway. Beautiful Loch Ken has a popular sailing centre with a number of water sports and activities available. The Solway coast is also popular with sailors with both Kippford and Kirkcudbright having safe moorings. The National Trust for Scotland has a wonderful garden and house at Threave Estate which provides training for a number of horticulture students each year and a modern Visitor Centre with an excellent café and shop. The picturesque town of Gatehouse of Fleet is 7 miles away, set in a recognised National Scenic Area on the edge of the magnificent Galloway Forest Park, Scotland’s first Dark Skies Park. Communications within the area are very good. There is a mainline railway station in Dumfries and Lockerbie, providing excellent links to both the north and south. The M74 motorway network can be reached in about an hour and there are regular flights to other parts of the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe from Prestwick Airport which is about one hour’s drive to the North. Edinburgh and Glasgow airports can be reached in around two hours.

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