Burnfoot Cottage, Carsphairn, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, DG7

SITUATION
Burnfoot Cottage sits in stunning countryside to the southwest of the village of Carsphairn. Carsphairn has a thriving community and a very good community owned shop (not currently open), as well as numerous community groups covering a wide range of interests. Carsphairn Renewable Energy Fund Ltd has a scheme where every household can apply to a LEDS (Local Energy Discount Scheme, currently £600/pa) towards energy costs. Carsphairn Community Trust endows annual extra-curricular grants for local school age children. Primary schooling, whilst once available in the village, is available at Dalry, approximately 10 miles to the south. Secondary schooling is also available in Dalry up to 4th Year, with 5th and 6th years available in Castle Douglas. Castle Douglas is a popular market town with a wide range of amenities including health centre, 3 supermarkets, primary and secondary schools, livestock market, vets, banks and solicitors. A wider range of amenities including many high street shops is available in Ayr to the north.

Communications to the region are good with motorway connections north and south available at Moffat, Lockerbie and Gretna. Mainline train stations are in Lockerbie and Dumfries with connections to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and London.

The region is famed for its outdoor sporting opportunities including mountain biking at the various Seven Stanes forest centres, fishing and shooting on the stunning lochs, hillsides, coast and rivers, golf at numerous courses including the championship course at Southerness, and equestrian pursuits.

DESCRIPTION
Burnfoot Cottage is a wonderful two bedroomed home set in a country garden and adjacent paddocks, vegetable garden and woodland. The house has been enhanced by the current owner by the addition of a lovely sunroom, with electric Velux windows, which adds additional reception space as well as light and views of the garden and red squirrels, which frequently visit the feeder by the house. The spacious sitting room has a hidden secret, the cupboard doors open to reveal small stairs up to the attic space. The attic space has generous storage space with plenty of shelving. Throughout the house are bespoke doors and carvings forming handles and shelfing, a charming and artistic touch which adds to the warm and inviting character of the property.

The heart of the home is undoubtedly the dining kitchen with its striking cabinetry, Belfast sink and quarry tiled floor. The dining end has wood flooring with ample space for table and chairs looking out at the back garden through the glazed double doors. Two good sized bedrooms with wardrobes and a bathroom are complemented by a small office space and a useful utility room with sink. A boot room with WC completes the accommodation. The house is heated by an air source heat pump, which is still benefits from a domestic RHI with two years left to run.

Burnfoot Cottage offers a chance to embrace an idyllic rural lifestyle, as well as a degree of self-sufficiency by growing your own produce and wood fuel. The outbuildings include two garages, two stables, a log cabin with turf roof, a workshop and four sheds, including a large woodstore. The attractive species-rich paddocks provide the opportunity to keep a small number of sheep or a couple of ponies.

ACCOMMODATION
Dining Kitchen. Sitting Room. Sunroom. Two Double Bedrooms. Bathroom. Utility Room. Boot Room. WC.


GARDEN AND GROUNDS
The garden is a beautiful cottage garden with areas of lawn, surrounded by uncut grassland, mature shrubs and trees, making it a haven for wildlife including regular red squirrel visitors, and a wide variety of wild birds. A generous patio leads out from the sunroom with steps down to the front garden, an ideal place for outdoor entertaining or relaxing with a glass of something chilled on a warm summer evening. To the side, there is a vegetable garden in which can be grown a wide variety of produce, with a polytunnel to the rear of the property. Wooded areas give shade and shelter. Two garages, stables, tack room, chicken run with shed and second polytunnel, workshop, three garden sheds and wood store can support a wide variety of rural lifestyles and hobbies. A log cabin with turfed roof sits in the rear garden and has a log burner, making it a wonderful addition to the accommodation and somewhere to enjoy chillier days.
The land, holding number 82/509/0056, is ideal for a small number of sheep or ponies etc to graze. From the top of the holding, the views of the surrounding countryside are panoramic, showing the beauty of this rural, yet accessible, area.

EPC Rating = C