Well Located and Delightful Former Manse Carmyllie House, Carmyllie, by Arbroath, Angus, DD11 2RA Savills.Co.Uk
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Well located and delightful former manse Carmyllie House, Carmyllie, by Arbroath, Angus, DD11 2RA savills.co.uk Well located and delightful former manse Carmyllie House, Carmyllie, by Arbroath, Angus, DD11 2RA Carnoustie: 6 miles Arbroath: 7 miles Forfar: 8 miles Dundee: 13 miles Aberdeen: 53 miles n entrance vestibule, hallway, sitting room, dining room, study, conservatory, kitchen, pantry, rear hallway, store room, studio n 6 bedrooms, bathroom and shower room n gardens and grounds, outbuildings About 0.9 acres EPC rating = E Solicitors Savills Brechin McCash & Hunter 12 Clerk Street, Brechin, Angus DD9 6AE 25 South Methven Street, Perth, PH1 5PE [email protected] 01738 620451 01356 628628 Viewing schooling is available at the High School of Dundee. The city of The Rev Dr Patrick Bell, an incumbent of the present manse, Strictly by appointment with Dundee provides an excellent range of shops and professional invented the reaping machine in 1828 and perfected it at Savills – 01356 628628. services, together with good leisure facilities. It is an established the manse. He refused to patent the machine, believing that centre of excellence in education and life sciences, and has all should benefit. There are superb memorial stained glass Directions renowned cultural facilities. windows dedicated to him within the church, in the Arts and From Dundee travelling east on Crafts style by Stephen Adam. the A92 (Arbroath road), take There are golf courses at Forfar and Arbroath, and the the B978 at the Claypotts Castle championship courses at Carnoustie and Letham Grange are Carmyllie House was acquired by the sellers in 1985. At that junction, adjacent to Sainsburys. within easy reach. Fishing can be taken on the nearby North stage they rewired and re-plumbed it and installed a central After 0.5 miles turn right, and and South Esks. The Angus Glens provide some of the best heating system. Much of the house was refurbished, but right again onto the B961. hill walking in eastern Scotland, with ski-ing at Glenshee. The carefully retaining its original character and features. A studio Proceed through Newbigging pleasant sandy beach at Lunan Bay is easily reached as is was created out of an upstairs former housekeeper’s room, in and past Monikie and Crombie Arbroath which is famous for its “smokies” and has a marina. about 2004, and just prior to that the conservatory was added, Country Parks. At the crossroads Crombie and Monikie Country Parks are located close by. creating another dimension and reception room for the house. with the B9128 (Carnoustie to This links through to the kitchen and to the study and dining Forfar road) proceed straight There are railway stations at Arbroath, Carnoustie and Dundee over on the B961. At Milton Haugh turn left onto the B9127 with mainline services to Aberdeen and to the south, including signposted Inverarity and Douglastown and then take the first a sleeper. Aberdeen and Edinburgh Airports provide a range right. After 0.2 miles, on reaching the church, turn right through of domestic and European flights and there are services from the gates and proceed up to the front of the house. Dundee to London Stansted. If coming from the north on the A933 (Brechin to Arbroath road) Description just to the south of Friockheim (some 8 miles from Brechin) turn Carmyllie House is a most attractive, late Georgian country onto the B961, signposted Redford and Newbigging. Some 0.9 house, attractively and conveniently located, with good views miles after passing through Redford (and 0.2 miles after passing south over agricultural land. Dating from 1820 it was built, the War Memorial) turn right, before reaching Milton Haugh, and on classical principles, as the manse for the nearby Carmyllie at the T junction turn right. On reaching the church turn right Kirk. The bay window was added in 1870, probably by the through the gates. well known architect, James McLaren, who was working on the church at that time. The church today dates from 1609, Alternatively, some 4 miles south of Forfar on the A90 dual and incorporates work from the earlier pre-reformation chapel. carriageway take the turning, signposted Inverarity. Continue Historic Scotland describe how “the former manse and gardens through Inverarity on the B9217. Continue straight over the add history and context to the picturesque group at Carmyllie... junctions with the B978 and B9128 and just before reaching the The group is prominently sited on rising ground overlooking T junction at Milton Haugh with the B961, turn left, and proceed former glebe land”. Carmyllie House is a symmetrical house, as above. looking out over a crescent shaped ha-ha and internally has an elegant hanging staircase and fine reception rooms with a Situation decoratively consoled sideboard arch with flanking doors in what Carmyllie House is most conveniently located some may have been the dining room, but is now used as a sitting 3.5 miles south of Letham, in attractive rolling countryside. It room. is almost equidistant from the Angus towns of Forfar, Arbroath and Carnoustie and only about 7.5 miles from the A90 dual William Small, described as a son of the Scottish Enlightenment, carriageway which provides fast access north to Aberdeen and was born at the manse of Carmyllie in 1734. Following to the south. Dundee (13 miles) is easily reached. Primary graduation from Aberdeen University he was appointed schooling is found at Redford (Carmyllie) and at Monikie, which Professor of Natural Philosophy at William and Mary College in also has a local shop, with secondary schooling in Carnoustie Virginia, America. One of his pupils there was Thomas Jefferson, and Arbroath. The well known Milton Haugh farm shop and principal author of the American Declaration of Independence coffee shop is close by. Forfar, Carnoustie and Arbroath provide and third President of the United States. Jefferson’s biography of extensive shopping, business and leisure facilities. Private 1812 states, “Small probably fixed the destinies of my life.” room. The house is stone built and harled, with a slate roof Inner partially glazed doors with side lights open to the hallway flooring and oak base units with a four ring Hotpoint ceramic and a traditional Carmyllie slate roofed lean-to to the rear. It with cornice, wooden floor and curved hanging staircase. Off hob, plumbing for a dishwasher, sink, and Siemens double has elegant and well proportioned reception rooms and the the hallway is the sitting room with cornice, bay window, four oven/grill. The Worcester Danesmoor 20/25 boiler is housed bedrooms are arranged over two floors. Retaining much of its wall lights, dado rail, sideboard arch with shelved presses on within the kitchen. Between the conservatory and the kitchen original character, it is a delightful family house and is also ideal either side and an open Adam fireplace. On the other side of is a useful shower room with a tiled cubicle with power shower, for entertaining. the hallway is the dining room with cornice, window shutters, pedestal washbasin, WC and extractor fan. Also off the kitchen dado rail and fireplace with carved wooden mantel with Dutch is the rear hallway with a part glazed back door, coat hooks and A gate set in stone gate pillars opens onto a gravelled drive and Portuguese tiled surround. From the dining room French a door to a store room which is plumbed for a washing machine which leads up to a gravelled sweep at the front of the house. doors open to the study which has a cornice and fitted desk and has fitted shelves and a coal bunker with external access. Stone steps with cast iron handrails lead up to the front door, and further French doors opening to the conservatory which is above which is a glazed overlight and the inscription “Domum double glazed with a tiled floor and French doors to the garden The hanging staircase with wooden handrail and balustrades Expectamus Cujus Conditar Est Deus”. The wooden front terrace. Also off the hallway is a pantry with clothes pulley, leads up to the first floor. Part way up the stairs there is a door opens to an entrance vestibule with cornice and tiled floor. fitted shelves and cupboard. The welcoming kitchen has oak bathroom with bath with wooden surround, pedestal washbasin Gross internal floor area = 324.33m2 [3,491ft2] approx FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES ONLY. NOT TO SCALE. © Highland Plans STORE LOBBY 2.75m x 2.79m 1.90m x 2.90m 9' 0" x 9' 2" 6' 3" x 9' 6" SHOWER BATH 1.92m x 2.65m CONSERVATORY KITCHEN 1.93m x 2.78m 6' 4" x 8' 8" 4.99m x 3.98m STUDIO 6' 4" x 9' 1" 4.44m x 3.99m 16' 5" x 13' 1" 4.63m x 4.10m 14' 7" x 13' 1" 15' 2" x 13' 5" PANTRY 3.68m x 1.20m STUDY 12' 1" x 3' 11" 4.45m x 1.95m DRESSING ROOM 14' 8" x 6' 5" BEDROOM 1 4.52m x 1.99m 4.52m x 3.26m 14' 10" x 6' 6" 14' 10" x 10' 8" HALL BEDROOM 5 BEDROOM 6 2.54m 4.03m 4.48m x 4.23m 4.45m x 4.21m 8' 4" x 13' 3" 14' 8" x 13' 11" 14' 7" x 13' 10" MASTER BEDROOM STORE DRAWING ROOM DINING ROOM 2.56m x 1.97m 4.52m x 4.94m 4.46m x 5.62m 4.45m x 4.80m BEDROOM 2 8' 5" x 6' 6" 14' 8" x 18' 5" 14' 8" x 15' 9" 14' 10" x 16' 2" 4.52m x 3.68m VESTIBULE 14' 10" x 12' 1" 2.54m x 2.71m BEDROOM 3 8' 4" x 8' 11" 2.53m x 2.46m 8' 4" x 8' 1" GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR SECOND FLOOR General Remarks Purchase Price Outgoings A deposit of 10% of the purchase price may be required.