Stonelea Stables Ashkirk Selkirkshire

A most impressive and spacious modern detached family home set in a beautiful and peaceful rural position with stunning rural views. The property sits in generous gardens and grounds of approximately 11 acres and includes a separate immaculately presented detached two bedroom house, outbuildings, stables, a menage, paddocks and woodland. Stonelea Stables is a truly fantastic family home offering buyers the potential to live and work from home, with the peace and tranquillity of countryside living.

Accommodation Comprises: Ground Floor: Entrance vestibule, utility/boot room, shower room/wc, drawing room, sitting room/bed 4, library/reading area, master bedroom with en-suite.

First Floor: Galleried landing with sitting area, kitchen-dining room, bedroom 2 with walk-in wardrobe and en-suite, bedroom 3 with Jack and Jill access to family bathroom.

Outside: Private driveway, parking for several vehicles, detached two bedroom house, tandem garage, workshop, menage, tack room, five loose boxes, hen coup, polytunnel, landscaped gardens, circa 11 acres including three paddocks and woodland, views.

Edinburgh 52 miles Selkirk 6 miles Galashiels 11 miles (All distances are approximate)

Situation: Set in a rural location with stunning country views, Stonelea Stabkes is approximately one mile from the pretty village of Ashkirk, which is beside the A7 that links Edinburgh and Carlisle. The village has a public house and restaurant and a popular Golf Course whilst being positioned mid-way between the market towns of Selkirk & Hawick. Both towns offer a wide selection of local shops and super markets as well as schooling for all ages and sports clubs. The Scottish Borders is renowned for the lifestyle it offers and the landscapes it enjoys. The region boasts some of the most impressive countryside in Scotland and there are a wide range of country pursuits to be enjoyed.

The A7 is a major trunk road and links up to Galashiels and from there to Edinburgh. The property will also benefit from the new Borders Railway due to open in 2015 with stations at Galashiels and Tweedbank. The new line will have regular services to Edinburgh. Description: in the views. From the landing there are two further Stonelea Stables is a beautiful and spacious double bedrooms, one with a walk-in wardrobe and detached modern family home built in 2005 and an en-suite with shower, basin vanity unit and WC, is in a turn-key condition, siting in well tendered and the other benefiting from a Jack and Jill en-suite gardens and grounds of approximately eleven acres. with modern white suite consisting of a free standing The property offers a wonderful opportunity for a bathtub, basin vanity unit, chrome radiator and WC. new owner looking for a country lifestyle with a Stonelea House is double glazed throughout and separate two bedroomed house, and a range of benefits from under-floor heating on the ground floor. outbuildings and equestrian facilities that could provide an additional income or business potential. Garden House The property is approach from a quiet lane through A beautifully presented and completely self-contained double five-bar timber gates to a stone cobbled and detached two bedroom property sitting near to the mono-block paved driveway, providing parking for main house. Garden House has an open-plan several vehicles. The drive gives access to the main ground floor with a kitchen, bathroom and sitting house, the separate two bedroom house named room and two bedrooms on the first floor. The house Garden House and to the outbuildings, stables and benefits from triple glazing and has ceramic tiled menage. The main house is approached over a path flooring and under-floor heating on the ground floor. to a covered porch and seating area. The front door The front door opens into the kitchen which has a is partially glazed and opens into a vestibule with a range of modern floor and wall mounted units with Travetine tiled floor (N.B All ground floor is Travertine counter top over, a breakfast bar, a built in electric tiling) and doors to the utility room and the main hall. cooker with extractor over and induction hob, a The utility/boot room has a stable door to the front of dishwasher and space for a washing machine. The the house and has a range of wall and floor mounted bathroom has attractive ceramic tiled floors and units, sink and drainer with tiled splashbacks and a walls and has a four piece white suite with a modern large cupboard. There is also space for a washing bathtub, separate shower cubicle, chrome radiator, machine and dryer. Off this room is a shower room wash-hand basin and WC. The open-plan sitting with a double shower cubicle, basin and vanity room is a generous size with French doors leading unit, chrome radiator and WC. The main hall is a outside. There is a large walk-in cupboard under large space currently used as a library and reading the stairs. On the first floor there is a small landing area with access to the rest of the ground floor leading to two double bedrooms. They both have accommodation and a staircase with cupboard Velux windows allowing in plenty of light, solid oak under rising to the first floor. The drawing room flooring and built-in wardrobes. makes a real statement with a stunning double height ceiling and double height picture windows, flooding Outside: the room with light and affording breath-taking With the generous plot, separate dwelling, land and views. French doors on both ends of the room open equestrian facilities, the property offers buyers a on to separate patio entertaining areas and there is wonderful opportunity to create a new and relaxed a feature multi-fuel stove on a raised hearth with a lifestyle with the potential to be self-sufficient, create slate effect porcelain tile on the wall behind. From additional income streams and run a business the main hall there is a large sitting room which can from home. In all there are approximately 11 acres, also be used as a fourth bedroom and has French made up of three fenced paddocks, a menage with doors opening onto a patio. Completing the ground a rubber on sand surface, five loose boxes and a floor is a generous master bedroom with en-suite. tack room, a boiler house, a tandem garage with an The rooms benefits from dual-aspect windows and electric remote control door, driveway parking, large French doors leading out to a patio. The en-suite polytunnel, hen coup, patio areas for entertaining, has a white suite consisting of a separate shower, a drying area, landscaped gardens and woodland. basin vanity unit, a chrome radiator and WC. The staircase leading from the main hall rises to the first Directions: floor and opens onto the very spacious open-plan Head south from Edinburgh on the A7 and follow the kitchen, dining room and galleried landing with a road through Selkirk. After approximately five miles seating area, looking over the drawing room below turn right into Ashkirk. At the Smiddy pub turn right and views over the countryside. The kitchen has a and follow the road for approximately ¾ of a mile and range of fitted floor based and wall mounted units Stonelea Stables is on the left-hand side. with counter tops over and tiled splashbacks. There is a Cannon six burner range cooker with extractor Satellite Navigation: hood above, an integral dishwasher, wine rack and For those with the use of Satellite Navigation the space for a fridge freezer. The open-plan dining postcode for this property is TD7 4NY, but please room has space for a large table and chairs and follow the directions above as some SatNav’s are beyond that the galleried seating area is a lovely inaccurate for this postcode. space for the family to socialise and relax and to take

GENERAL REMARKS:

Fixtures and Fittings: Only items specifically mentioned in the particulars of sale are included in the sale price.

Services: Mains electric, Mains water, Wood burning central heating boiler with oil fired back-up boiler, Drainage to a treatment unit, LPG gas supply for kitchen hob.

Local Authority: Scottish Borders Council, Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose TD6 0SA Tel: 01835 824 000.

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Servitude Rights, Burdens & Wayleaves: The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all servitude rights, burdens, reservations and wayleaves including rights of access and rights of way, whether public or private, light, support, drainage, water and wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cable, drains and water, gas and other pipes whether contained in the title deeds or informally constituted and whether or not referred to above.

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Particulars prepared April 2014. 1 Abbey Street, Melrose TD6 9PX Tel: 01896 824 070 Email: [email protected] www.rettie.co.uk

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