Auchnabreac (The Whole), Carradale, Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, PA28

Description
Auchnabreac is a former working farmhouse and attached steadings which have been thoroughly and sensitively restored. The assets at Auchnabreac are as follows;

• Auchnabreac Farmhouse
• Auchnabreac Cottage
• A range of flexible outbuildings
• About 51.07 acres (20.66 Ha) land

Auchnabreac was acquired by the current owners in 2008 and for a period of 4 or 5 years the properties were systematically modernised and improved to an exacting standard, the results of which have created an appealing blend of period and contemporary modern-day features. Together with the principal home, there is an income producing self-catered holiday letting cottage and a range of versatile outbuildings, stores and workshops. Many of the buildings have been restored and developed to building regulations habitable standard. Strictly subject to planning permission, warrants and consents, the buildings may lend themselves suitable for residential development and or to increase the income producing holiday enterprise.

Auchnabreac
Is a detached stone-built house with painted harled section, all under a slated roof. Internal finishes include quality floor and tile ceramics, engineered white oak woodwork and top quality kitchen and bathroom ware. The house is presented in fine decorative order and the rooms all enjoy very pleasant aspects out over neatly presented gardens and adjacent fields, woodlands and farmland.

Ground Floor
Main front door, entrance vestibule, open plan reception to sitting room with feature stone fireplace with 12Kw stove, Edinburgh press, dual aspect formal dining room with log burner, open plan and tiled rear entrance reception hallway to shower and wc, fine bright open plan dining and breakfasting kitchen with island, Belfast sink, tiled floor, vaulted ceiling with 4 velux windows, warming log burning stove, twin leaf doors to gardens. Twin leaf internal doors to ground floor guest bedroom number 1 with Edinburgh press.

First Floor
Feature open plan staircase to the first-floor upper hallway illuminated by velux window, bedroom 2 with velux and dormer window formations, twin leaf doors to wardrobe and airing cupboard, bedroom 3 (master) with dormer and gable windows and warming log burner, bathroom with oval shaped bath on raised dias, dormer window, part tile and part hardwood flooring.

Services: Water is by private UV lamped and filtered supply, electricity is by battery stored power from solar panels supported by twin red diesel generators, heating is by 12Kw burner, supported by 4 secondary log burning stoves. The 12kw burner provides heating to 2 towel rails, 1 airing cupboard radiator and wet underfloor coil heating in the reception hallway and shower room, double glazing. Drainage is by septic tank.

Note: The services have not been checked by the selling agents

Auchnabreac Cottage
Situated to the side of Auchnabreac, a detached built cottage of exposed natural stone under a slated roof, quality floor and wall tiles and dressed natural timber finishes with heritage black ironmongery.

Ground Floor
Outer door to fine open plan dining and well-equipped kitchen, steps lead to a raised sitting room with feature warming log burner, a door leads to the rear canopy and gardens. Shower room and wc, bedroom 1 with tiled floor.

First Floor
Staircase to upper hallway and fine viewpoint window, bedroom 2 with velux and dormer window formations, neat en suite wc.

Covered canopy and refuse store at rear.

Note: Auchnabreac Cottage is licenced under the Short Term Letting Licence, Licence number AR00701F.

Services
Water is by private UV lamped and filtered supply, electricity is by battery stored power from solar panels supported by twin red diesel generators, heating is by LPG central heating supported by a multi fuel stove, double glazing. Drainage is by septic tank.

Note: The services have not been checked by the selling agents.

The present owner has offered to provide new owners at Auchnabreac with an in-depth tutorial and clear usage, maintenance and service instructions on the water filtration and generators functionality.

Outbuildings
• Box profile steel container and generator house.

• New larch clad, vented door and box profile steel roof, parts and spares store, concrete floor.

• Detached stone and slate structure, Stables, Big Byre, Tattie Store, Wee Byre, Water Filtration room.

• Larch clad lean-to lumber store under a box profile steel roof.

• 2 bay steel portal frame corrugated sheet clad open fronted shed.

• New larch clad machinery store, welded membrane roof, twin leaf doors, concrete floor, exposed stone
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• Stone and larch clad workshop, slated roof, workshop and tool store, woodworking shop with log burner, stairs to first floor long term stores, access to pine lined ‘man cave’.

• 2 bay polytunnel.

• Larch constructed log store under slate and with concrete floor.

• Timber clad corrugated sheet roof kennels and lawnmower stores.

• Field Shelter.

• Wood fired hot tub.

The majority of the outbuildings have light and
power and some have a water supply.

Gardens
Laid mainly to grass for ease of maintenance, post and rail fenced, riverside productive vegetable kitchen produce and herb garden with raised planters and productive Worcesterberry bushes. Enclosed gardens to grass around the cottage. Gravel driveway, turning and hard standing aprons.

Land
Auchnabreac is a registered farm with a farm code 156/0008.

The entire holding extends to 51.07 acres (20.66 Ha).

Lotting Policy
The assets at Auchnabreac are presented for sale as a whole or in two separate lots as follows;

Lot 1 (22.79 acres) Outlined in red on the attached land plan and includes the main house, cottage, outbuildings and land comprising, immediate house and cottage gardens, in by land to permanent grass leys pasture, semi ancient native woodlands of birch, hazel, alder and oak as well as a double bank section of the Carradale Water.

Lot 2 (28.28 acres) Outlined in blue on the attached land plan and is a single enclosure to grass leys, suitable for grazing and the production of round bale haylage.

Lot 2 will not be considered for sale ahead of a sale being agreed on Lot 1.

Local Authorities
Argyll & Bute Council
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Council Tax
Auchnabreac is in Council tax band E and the amount payable for 2024/2025 is £1,943.50 excluding mains water supply and sewerage. Auchnabreac Cottage has a rateable value of £2,600 however our clients qualify for the small business rates relief scheme and on this basis there is a zero charge for rates.

EPC
Auchnabreac (house) rating C and Auchnabreac (cottage) rating E.

Situation
Auchnabreac is situated amid woodlands, farmland and delightful countryside on the eastern side of the Kintyre Peninsula close to the lovely coastal fishing village of Carradale.

The property and land assets at Auchnabreac are wonderfully off-grid and are situated in a situation of great natural scenic beauty, some 1.75 miles along a forest track from the nearest public road. They are beautifully set beside a glorious pool of the Carradale Water, over which there is a charming old ford crossing. The Carradale Water forms the northern and western boundaries at Auchnabreac.

Carradale harbour village is about 5 miles to the south where there is a food shop, post office, primary school and two hotels for local dining.

Carradale lies at the centre of a network of forest and coastal walks and the area is rich in wildlife with numerous bird species and several species of deer frequently seen.

The village has a challenging 9-hole golf course and at Machrihanish (22 miles) there are now two of the most challenging and scenic 18 hole links courses in the west of Scotland, Machrihanish and Machrihanish Dunes. Some of the local estates run commercial shoots and there are opportunities to fish on some of the local rivers and hill lochs as well as sea angling in the Kilbrannan Sound. The 3-mile golden beach of Machrihanish Bay is well known for windsurfing and surf canoeing.

The west of Scotland is famed for its scenic sailing and it is possible to safely moor boats in the area with associated chandlery and marina services.

A bus service operates between Carradale harbour and Campbeltown. There is a small airport at Machrihanish with a twice-daily service to and from Glasgow.

The town of Campbeltown is 17.5 miles to the south and has two supermarkets, a full range of shops and professional services, a secondary school, an A&E hospital, leisure facilities (including a modern swimming pool) and a cinema.

From Tarbert there is a ferry link to Portavadie, which gives access to an alternative route to Glasgow via Dunoon and Gourock.

Auchnabreac is 11 miles to the south of the picturesque little ferry port of Claonaig, by Skipness, which connects Lochranza on the island of Arran to the Kintyre peninsula, whilst the Kennacraig ferry is 16 miles distant (just off the A83) and connects the Kintyre mainland with Islay, Jura and Colonsay. The Kintyre Express offers regular sailings to Ballycastle in the north of Ireland.
A long-distance footpath called the Kintyre Way was completed in 2006 and stretches from Tarbert at the north end of the peninsula, to Southend in the south and crisscrosses the peninsula, connecting communities, landscape, people and produce. The Kintyre Way is 89 miles long in total and with 4 to 7 days’ worth of walking, there is a combination of serious hiking and gentle rambles.
Land surrounding Auchnabreac is scenically attractive and allows the opportunity for those who have interests to hobby farm, pursue equine pursuits, participate in the rearing of rare breed livestock or simply to enjoy the peace tranquillity and serenity of this most beautiful and somewhat secret part of the West of Scotland.
Wildlife is a feature at Auchnabreac. There are regular sightings of deer species, Red, Roe and Sika, red squirrels, pine martin, numerous raptors and the larger golden and sea eagles are known to inhabit the area. The Carradale water, which forms part of the boundaries at Auchnabreac, provides the chance to fish for wild brown trout. It may be possible, by permit/arrangement, to fish for migratory species and it is known that the Carradale water has a back end run of salmon and sea trout.
By permission, it may be possible to enjoy rough shooting and to stalk for deer species over the land that is owned at Auchnabreac.

Travel Directions
From Glasgow take the A82 and A83 to reach the west coast town/port of Tarbert. Take the A83 South out of Tarbert following signs for Campbeltown. Continue for about 5.3 miles then turn left onto the B8001 signposted Skipness & Carradale. Travel for about 5 miles and at Claonaig the B8001 becomes the B842.
Continue south on the B842 for 10.7 miles then turn left where it is signposted Cemetery. Proceed along the track for 1.75 miles to reach the collection of assets at Auchnabreac."
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