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Leithen Lodge Leithen Lodge Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, EH44 6NW Edinburgh 25 miles, Edinburgh Airport 33 miles, Peebles 11 miles Magnificent A Listed mansion house in a beautiful and secluded setting in the Scottish Borders Ground Floor Reception Halls • Ante Room and Kitchenettes • Morning Rooms • Smoking Rooms • Studys • Breakfast Rooms • Kitchens • Larders • Prep Kitchen Butler’s Pantrys • Cloakrooms • Boot Rooms • 2 Bedroom Suites First Floor Galleried Landings • Dining Room with Prep Kitchens • Librarys • Drawing Rooms • Orangerys • Ballroom • 2 Bedrooms • Bathroom • WC Second Floor 2 Bedrooms • Dressing Room • 2 Bathrooms • Bedroom 7/Sitting Room • Gallery Overlooking Library Courtyard Accommodation Flat 1: Bedroom/Sitting Room, Kitchen/Breakfast Room, Bathroom Flat 2: Sitting Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2 Bedrooms, Bathroom Flat 3: Dining Room, Sitting Room, Library, Kitchen/Breakfast Room, 2 Bedrooms, Bathroom Garage and Pump House Walled Garden • Parkland • Wooded Policies • Lochan About 19.8 acres in all Situation Sir George Miller-Cunningham sold the estate to Rosebery Estates Bedroom Suite 1 Bedroom with walk in wardrobe cupboard. En Leithen Lodge is situated in the beautiful countryside of the Moorfoot in the 1940s and for many years the house was let. It fell into near suite bathroom with cupboards WC, wash basin and bath with Hills, approximately 11 miles to the north west of Peebles. dereliction and was rescued from demolition and restored in the shower over. Door to: Peeblesshire is one of the most beautiful and accessible parts of the early 1990s for David Lumsden by Hugh Ross. The current Borders with rolling hills, farmland and woodlands. The attractive owners acquired Leithen Lodge in 2004 and have sympathetically Boot Room Fitted cupboards. Ornate fireplace. market town of Peebles offers excellent local services including shops, refurbished both the house and grounds, retaining its charm and professional services and supermarkets. It also has a well regarded splendour, whilst taking it into the 21st century. Smoking Room Bay window with working shutters. Open fireplace. secondary school. Local primary schooling is available at St Ronan’s Fitted display cupboards. Door to inner hallway giving access to Primary School in Innerleithen (4 miles). The private schools of bedroom suite. Edinburgh and Loretto School in Musselburgh (24 miles) are within Description easy reach. Leithen Lodge is a magnificent Category A listed house, an Bedroom Suite 2 Entrance passage with fitted wardrobes. Bay outstanding example of Arts and Crafts architecture. The property window with working shutters. Open fireplace with Delft tile While Leithen Lodge enjoys a wonderful rural position, it is extremely occupies a fabulous position, nestling in the hills to the north of surround. Display cupboard. Dressing room with fireplace with Delft accessible. Edinburgh is only some 25 miles to the north. Edinburgh Innerleithen, surrounded by wonderful, rugged countryside. The tiled surround. Fitted wardrobes. En suite bathroom with roll top airport has flights to an increasing number of domestic and house offers exceptional accommodation, arranged over ground, first bath, wash hand basin with marble surround and cupboard below, international destinations, including New York (Newark), and is 33 and second floors, with some impressive reception rooms including WC. miles away. a first floor drawing room and a stunning ballroom. Many of the rooms benefit from period features including ornate cornicing and From staircase hall door, with tiled floor, into: The area is renowned for its outdoor activities. The River Tweed is plasterwork and many have original fireplaces with Delft tiled the most prolific salmon river in Scotland and shooting can be surrounds. Study Safe cupboard. Ornate fireplace. Door to back hall with under arranged on nearby estates. There are golf courses at Innerleithen, floor heating. Peebles and Cardrona. The Peebles Hydro and Cardrona Hotel both In addition to the principal accommodation Leithen Lodge has three offer good leisure facilities and Glentress Forest is a fabulous facility flats which are used for a profitable holiday letting business. Breakfast Room Tiled floor. Wood burning stove. Shelved cupboard. for mountain bikers. Ground Floor Butler’s pantry Fitted cupboards incorporating stainless steel sink. Space and plumbing for dishwasher. Dumb waiter. Tiled floor. Historical & Architectural Note An impressive pillared verandah to the south of the house leads into: The ancient forest of Leithen was a royal hunting ground until 1241 Kitchen Range of wall and floor units incorporating a four oven Aga when Alexander II gifted the land to the monks of Newbattle Vestibule Black and white tiled floor and part glazed door into: with electric ceramic hob module. 1½ bowl stainless steel sink. Abbey. Following the Reformation, around 1560, the land, which Gaggenau griddle and deep fat fryer. Island unit with extensive came to be known as Leithenhopes, came into the ownership of Reception Hall Decorative ceiling. Wooden panelled walls. Stone cupboard space and marble top. Storage and glazed display cabinet. Mark Kerr, the commendator of the Abbey, who had made a fireplace with solid fuel burning stove and decorative pillars either Integrated dishwasher. Large integrated fridge. Tiled floor. timely conversion to Protestantism. His son, also Mark, was side. Overlooked by gallery to the principal corridor on the first floor. created Earl of Lothian in 1606. Larder Fitted cupboards, shelving and marble worktops. Ante Room Serving room and kitchenette with stainless steel sink, Over the ensuing centuries, Leithenhopes passed through various integrated fan assisted oven and four ring ceramic hob. Prep Kitchen Range of fitted floor and wall units incorporating two hands, until it was bought in 1852 by John Miller, a railway engineer, bowl stainless steel sink. Space and plumbing for large fridge freezer. who considerably extended an existing building and added the first Front Courtyard Hall Stairs to Ballroom. Door to: Gaggenau microwave oven and fan assisted oven. Tiled floor. hydro heating system of its time. In 1885 Miller’s daughter Margaret and his son in law, George Miller-Cunningham, commissioned A G Morning Room Ornate fireplace. Multi-fuel stove. Bay window with Separate courtyard hall Sydney Miller to remodel the house in the style of a mid-to-late working shutters. Door to: 17th century laird’s house, adding a new south east wing. The Cloakroom WC. Wash hand basin. Tiled floor. house was completely redecorated in Scottish Renaissance style WC WC and wash basin. with Arts and Crafts detail and Jacobean panelling. The exceptional detailed plasterwork, carried out by L Grandison & Son, is still beautifully preserved to this day. First Floor Under floor heating. Flat 1 Bedroom/sitting room, kitchen/ breakfast room and bathroom. Magnificent galleried landing lit by three picture windows and Gallery Overlooking library. Flat 2 Sitting room, dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom. overlooking the reception hall. Bedroom 5 Ornate fireplace. Flat 3 Kitchen/breakfast room, two double bedrooms, bathroom, Drawing Room Superb ornate plaster ceiling. Bay window. Large dining room, sitting room, library wood burning stove with marble surround and club fender. Wood Dressing Room Extensive fitted wardrobes. Ornate fireplace with panelled walls incorporating fitted glazed cabinets. Storage cupboard. Delft tiled surround. Old Pump House Storage Orangery Heating pipes, tiled floor and original window opening En suite Bathroom Bath. Separate shower cubicle. WC. Round Garage building Wood store to side and slate roof over. Garage mechanism. basin inset into cabinet with marble surround. with a concrete floor and space for two cars. Library Bay window. Extensive fitted book shelving. Overlooked by Bedroom 6 Ornate fireplace with Delft tiled surround. gallery. Courtyard Sitting Room/Bedroom 7 Ornate fireplace with Delft tiled surround. The attractive courtyard is entered from the east side through the Dining Room Alcove overlooking courtyard. Magnificent open Lochend Arch. This was built for Sir John Sinclair of Longformacus fireplace with marble and painted timber wooden surround with for his new house at Dunbar in 1684. It was designed by James Smith inlaid mirror. Shelved cupboard. Fluted columns on either side of the Courtyard Wing and modelled on the architecture of Andreo Palladio. It was procured door into: Accessed from both the courtyard and the front of the house is The in order to preserve it and was re-erected at Leithen Lodge. The Courtyard Wing. This has a sitting room, a bedroom with en suite courtyard is paved and there is a central fountain and herb garden. Prep Kitchen Dumb waiter from ground floor. bathroom, a dining room, kitchen and study. Cloakroom Extensive fitted cupboards. WC. Wash hand basin. Gardens and Grounds Outside Leithen Lodge is set in wooded grounds extending to just under 20 From the orangery a door leads into a secondary staircase hall with acres. The principal gardens lie to the north of the house. There are stairs leading to the ground and second floors. From here a door Outbuildings include: numerous mature trees, rhododendrons and a mass of snowdrops leads into: and bulbs. Extensive areas of lawns are interspersed with low stone Utility Room Three Belfast sinks. Space and plumbing for three walls with raised beds. A stone bridge leads over the Leithen Water Ballroom Alcove with wood burning