Thorneyside Farm, Dalry, North Ayrshire, KA24

A charming farmhouse with versatile buildings set on 17 acres.

Description

Situation
Thorneyside Farm is situated in the rolling North Ayrshire countryside, approximately 2.1 miles north of Dalry, a small town in the Garnock Valley. Dalry provides a range of small supermarkets, medical practice, nursery and primary schooling and a train station, providing a regular service to Glasgow Central. The farm is within the catchment area for Glengarnock Community Campus (secondary schooling) and there are various private schools in Glasgow and Kilmacolm.

Glasgow is approximately 26 miles away by road and provides all the amenities expected from a major city including renowned retail and cultural experiences including the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Riverside Museum, Glasgow Science Centre, Royal Concert Hall, various theatres, the Burrell Collection (within Pollok Country Park) and a variety of other attractions, as well as major transport links north and south and Glasgow International Airport. The surrounding areas offer an array of sporting and recreational facilities. The Firth of Clyde offers some of Scotland’s most testing sailing waters with marinas at Largs, Ardrossan, Inverkip and further down the coast at Troon. Ayrshire is also famous for its Championship Golf Courses including Turnberry, Prestwick and Royal Troon – all of which have hosted The Open Championship. The property benefits from fantastic uninterrupted views over the surrounding rolling countryside.

Description
Thorneyside Farm is a beautifully presented small farm offering rural lifestyle or equestrian potential in an accessible location in west central Scotland. The farmhouse and adjoining buildings create a tidy courtyard whilst the garden to the front of the farmhouse has been well designed and enjoys stunning views to the east. The property extends to approximately 17 acres (6.9 hectares) and until recently has been farmed by the owners. The property is offered for sale as a whole as described below.

Thorneyside Farmhouse & Buildings
Thorneyside Farmhouse is a traditional, two storey farmhouse of stone and slate construction with accommodation over two floors, as shown on the accompanying floorplans. The main front entrance leads into a reception hall from where the principal reception rooms are accessed as well as stairs to the first floor. The drawing room has a fireplace with gas fire installed and traditional features such as press cupboards and ornate cornice and ceiling rose. The study / bedroom 4 also benefits from a fireplace and access from both the reception hall and an internal hallway (with a further entrance door from the courtyard). Under the stairs is a small cloakroom with toilet and wash hand basin. The large dining kitchen benefits from fitted floor and wall units alongside an oil fired Stanley range with the focal point being the view from the French doors out into the garden A sun room and large utility room with toilet complete the ground floor accommodation. On the first floor there are three bedrooms and a bathroom.
Adjoining the house and accessed from the sun room is a former byre currently used for storage and housing the oil tank. On the other side of the courtyard is a further adjoining building split into three sections providing a workshop and more general storage. Set away from the farmhouse and courtyard is an implement store constructed with steel frame and profile metal sheet cladding and roof sheets with a hardcore floor and a general purpose building constructed with steel portal frame, concrete panels, profile metal sheet cladding and fibre cement roof sheets and a concrete floor. There is a disused former byre with suspected asbestos containing cladding / roof sheets.

Farmland
The property extends to about 17 acres in total with five field enclosures accessed from the yard or the farm road. The land is class 4(1) and (2), according to the James Hutton Institute of Soil Research, and is all down to grass and used for livestock grazing, with exception of a woodland area.




Acreage: 17 Acres