3 Bedrooms Detached house for sale in Ballochyle Cottage, Sandbank, Dunoon, Argyll And Bute PA23 | £ 299,000

Property Description

A well-presented and immediately appealing detached house in an idyllic and convenient sylvan situation.

Description
1 Ballochyle Cottage is a quite charming detached house with beautifully finished accommodation laid out over two light and bright and easily managed levels. The house is of cream painted harled finish under a slated roof and is set in wonderful level and mature sylvan gardens in an east facing position at the front and west facing at the rear.

The house is presented in lovely condition and in recent times the windows have been replaced by Messrs Blair windows. In addition, there is an extensive range of original stripped pitch pine timbers and picture rails. The house is warmed by lpg central heating with Morso stove and open fire back up.

Ground Floor
Outer door to entrance vestibule with painted floor and recessed mat well, twin leaf doors to entrance reception hallway with useful under stairs stores and cloakroom, comfortable sitting room with feature Morso multi fuel stove in timber fireplace, twin leaf doors provide access to a pretty garden room itself with twin leaf doors to gardens, tiled floor, exposed beams and velux window, formal dining room with working open fire in stone fireplace, inner hallway leading to well-equipped and easily worked kitchen with lpg fired Rayburn range cooker, ground floor bath and shower room, utility room with tiled floor, exposed brick and door to rear gardens.

First Floor
Staircase to first floor leading to upper hallway, access via retractable ladder to insulated attic space, cupboard doubling as small and neat home office/study, bedroom 1 with exposed pine floor, fitted furniture with louvre doors in cream, en suite shower room, bedroom 2 with fitted storage with natural finish louvre doors, open shelved press, bedroom 3 with exposed pine boards.

Outbuildings
Detached timber outhouse under box profile steel roof with overhung eaves and canopy comprising workshop, tool store and separate garden equipment store. Detached machinery store under black bitumen onduline corrugated sheet roof. Detached double open sided 4 bay-vented woodshed. Detached chalet/home office or games/craft or hobbies room with overhung eaves and canopy. The outbuildings are mainly completed in Douglas fir.

Gardens
Twin timber county style gates to good sized driveway and vehicle hard stand apron. A mature evergreen hedge flanks the eastern side and provides privacy, seclusion and shelter. To the western side a level lawn interspersed with a wide range of specimen trees, shrubs and colourful bushes. Gravel pathway at the front of the house fronted by ornamental dwarf box hedge, well screened level mature lawn with shrubs and beds and mixed trees and bushes. The gardens at the rear are to grass and are bounded by a beech hedge behind which are neighbouring tall and impressive tpo protected Western Red Cedar trees which form a pretty avenue at the rear. A gravel terrace and yard are at the rear with timber exit gates to the rear avenue. A concrete terrace is at the side with pergola which features an assortment of trained colourful climbers and vines.

Services
Private spring, uv lamped and filtered water supply, drainage is by private bio digester drainage system to herringbone soakaway, lpg central heating supported by Morso multi fuel stove, open fire, and lpg fired Rayburn range, double glazing.

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

Council Tax
1 Ballochyle Cottage is in Band D and the amount of council tax payable for 2017/2018 is £1,213.34.

Situation
1 Ballochyle Cottage is a private and little known house of the district. It occupies wonderful level and mature sylvan gardens in an east facing position at the front and west facing at the rear. The house is located in lovely rural idyll and enjoys all associated with rural living and yet remarkably is within only a few moments of the nearest every day provisions and convenience store as well as quick and easy access to the Western Ferries terminal at Hunters Quay.

Within 1 mile is the Cot House service station which incorporates an every day convenience store. Neighbouring Strone has a provisions store and post office and there is an excellent restaurant in Kilmun. Dunoon, 4.5 miles away, has more extensive facilities as well as a library, hospital, leisure centre and swimming pool. Closer to 1 Ballochyle Cottage is the Dolphin Leisure Centre in Hafton (3 miles) which forms part of Hunter's Quay Holiday Resort.

Greenock, at 9 miles, and the Braehead retail village at 30 miles (both via ferry), offer many of the big name stores. Kilmun is situated on the Cowal Peninsula and Glasgow can be accessed via the Rest and Be Thankful, a scenic route which allows travel without use of the ferry.

1 Ballochyle Cottage falls within the catchment area for Sandbank primary school which, as well as providing mainstream education, has a pre-school nursery and a Gaelic medium school. Free transport is provided to Sandbank Primary from the area surrounding 1 Ballochyle Cottage. There is also a primary school in Strone and primary and secondary schooling in Dunoon. Some children in the area attend the independent school of St Columba's in Kilmacolm and a private bus service is in operation from Gourock.

Set on the fringe of the National Park and the Argyll Forest, 1 Ballochyle Cottage is close to the Kilmum Arboretum and a few minutes' drive from Benmore Botantic Gardens, famous for its towering California redwoods. An additional 1 mile further is the stunning beauty of the freshwater Loch Eck. Salmon and sea trout run the nearby River Eachaig. Cot House Clay Pigeon shooting club is a mile distant and hunting and fishing are also available locally.

As with most parts of Scotland one is never too far from a golf course and Dunoon is no exception, the district having three challenging courses.

The thriving Holy Loch Marina lies just further up the loch and there is the possibility of a mooring on the Holy Loch, subject to council approval.

Travel Directions
From Glasgow city centre leave in a westerly direction on the M8 motorway. Continue for 21 miles to arrive at Port Glasgow. Follow signs Greenock and Gourock on the A770 for 8 miles to reach the Western Ferry terminal at McInroys Point. Take the ferry to Hunters Quay Dunoon. Leave the terminal and turn right on the A815 through Sandbank. After the junction in Sandbank, proceed in a northerly direction on the A815 for 1.8 miles then turn left at the sign for Glen Massan. Proceed along the single track road for 0.2 miles then turn first left and continue for a further 0.4 miles to reach the gates of 1 Ballochyle Cottage.

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