6 Rutherfurd Close, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, DG6

Rutherfurd Close is a quiet cul-de-sac at the top of a popular residential development in Kirkcudbright. Kirkcudbright is famous as Scotland’s Artists’ Town and its well-known connections to The Glasgow Boys. The town provides a range of services including two small supermarkets and individual specialist shops, 3 churches, museum, library, doctor’s surgery, optician, two veterinary practices, swimming pool, tennis court, bowling green, as well as a primary and secondary schools. The nearby market town of Castle Douglas also has a good range of shops and other services, and is designated Dumfries and Galloway’s ‘Food Town’. The regional capital of Dumfries offers a wider range of shops, retail outlets and services including the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary and the Crichton Campus providing further education courses.
Communications to the area are very good, with railway stations in both Dumfries and Lockerbie. The M74 motorway is accessible at Moffat and Lockerbie, allowing easy access north and south. Regular flights to parts of the UK and Ireland as well as continental Europe depart from Prestwick Airport, which is 58 miles drive to the north. Both Glasgow and Edinburgh with their international airports are around two hours’ drive. Regular ferry services to Northern Ireland operate with Stena Link and P & O from Cairnryan around 51 miles to the west, close to Stranraer.


DESCRIPTION
6 Rutherfurd Close is a delightful one and a half storey home with an additional basement. Three generous reception rooms and four bedrooms are spread over the ground and first floors with a stunning living room upstairs having a Dowling Stove and patio doors leading to a balcony. Downstairs the sitting room has patio doors leading to a terrace beneath the balcony. A double-doored dining room sits next to the well-appointed kitchen. The dining room could also make a good sized study/office for home working. The master bedroom with en suite shower room and the second bedroom are on the ground floor, with two further bedrooms and bathroom with striking double bath on the first floor*.
*NB. The bathroom is in need of upgrading and the shower is not draining.

The basement is accessed internally via stairs leading down from the hallway. 6 separate spaces are found here with one plumbed as a laundry room, one used as a workshop and one with gym matting. The possibilities are endless with this basement and it provides a huge amount of storage, allowing the house itself to be uncluttered. There is access to the garage via a second set of stairs leading up from a lockable door. It is rare to find such an impressive basement in a house of this era, so this is a chance for a buyer to obtain a house with real ‘hidden depths’.


ACCOMMODATION

Basement: Hallway. 6 defined spaces. Access to both the ground floor and the garage.

First Floor: Entrance vestibule. Hallway. Kitchen. Dining Room. Sitting Room. Master Bedroom with En Suite Shower Room. Cloakroom WC. Bedroom 2.

Second Floor: Living Room. Bathroom. Bedroom 3. Bedroom 4

GARDEN
The garden surrounds the house and is to grass with mature trees to the front, with the tarmac parking area in front of the garage. Paths lead around the house. To the rear is a paved terraced with herbaceous border behind. To one side is a raised terrace which contains the swimming pool. The swimming pool requires a complete overhaul to become useable again. Timber steps lead up to the first floor balcony. Behind the pool area the garden rises steeply to a banked area currently home to timber sheds, with a further triangular area behind, which has potential for the creation of borders.

SERVICES, COUNCIL TAX AND ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE(S)
Water - Mains
Electricity - Mains
Drainage - Mains
Tenure - Freehold
Heating - Gas CH
Council Tax - Band G
EPC - D63
Broadband - Yes (Fibre to the premises)
Mobile - Yes

FLOOD RISK
There is no specific risk to the property.
Flood maps of the area can be viewed at

EPC Rating = D