AN IMPOSING VICTORIAN HOUSE WITH AN EXTENSIVE GARDEN, IN THE COASTAL VILLAGE OF ST CYRUS alma house, ecclesgreig road, st cyrus, kincardineshire, dd10 0bh AN IMPOSING VICTORIAN HOUSE WITH AN EXTENSIVE GARDEN, IN THE COASTAL VILLAGE OF ST CYRUS alma house, ecclesgreig road, st cyrus kincardineshire, dd10 0bh Entrance vestibule u hallway u drawing room u sitting room dining kitchen u pantry u cloakroom u 5 bedrooms u shower room u bathroom Outbuildings with stores and office u Garage and workshop Enclosed gardens About 1.3 acres EPC rating = F Laurencekirk 6 miles (A90), Montrose 6 miles, Stonehaven 17 miles, Aberdeen 33 miles, Dundee 34 miles Situation Alma House is situated in the popular coastal village of St Cyrus, which itself is set above a dramatic cliff with the coastline and renowned sandy beach at its foot. This part of the coastline comprises sandy bays and red sandstone cliffs. As well as St Cyrus, other popular beaches are found at Lunan Bay and Montrose. Johnshaven is a small fishing village just north of St Cyrus, from where sea fishing is available. Both St Cyrus Beach and Montrose Basin are Nature Reserves. There are lovely walks, both on the beach and in nearby woods. Away from the coast the range of outdoor pursuits is impressive. Fishing and turning area at the front door. This opens to an entrance vestibule can be taken on the nearby North and South Esks. Golf courses are with cornice, oak flooring and an inner partially glazed door with engraved found at Montrose, Stonehaven and Edzell, whilst the championship glass. The elegant hallway has a cornice, oak flooring and a staircase to course at Carnoustie is within easy driving distance. There is a trout the first floor. The drawing room is a fine and well proportioned room with fishery at Mill of Criggie near St Cyrus. a cornice, picture rail, open fireplace with a wooden mantel, high level skirting, a shelved press, oak flooring and a bay window with shutters, St Cyrus has a primary school, together with a post office, hotel and that overlooks the garden. Opposite is bedroom 1, which has previously general store. A more extensive range of shopping, business and leisure been used as a study and as a playroom, and which has a cornice, facilities is found in Montrose and Laurencekirk. Secondary education is picture rail, cast iron fireplace, shelves and oak flooring. available in Montrose, or at the new Mearns Academy in Laurencekirk or the Mackie Academy in Stonehaven. Lathallan (4 miles) is a well known Also off the hallway is the cloakroom. This has an understair coat private school. hanging area and a door through to the separate WC with a cornice, dado rail, window shutters, oak flooring and pedestal washbasin. The The A90 provides fast access to Aberdeen as well as to Dundee and the sitting room is another fine reception room with a cornice, picture rail, south. The A92 coast road links Stonehaven to Dundee via Montrose open cast iron fireplace with a painted mantel, and a bay window with and Arbroath. Both Aberdeen and Dundee provide all the services shutters and tweed covered window seat, overlooking the garden. This expected of major cities. Aberdeen Airport has a range of domestic and was previously used as a dining room and a door links through to the European flights, and there are direct services from Dundee Airport to dining kitchen. The fitted kitchen has bespoke Iroko wooden units with a London Stansted and Amsterdam. Both Montrose and Laurencekirk are Redfyre double oven range cooker, with two induction hobs and extractor on the main east coast railway line, and there is a sleeper service to the with tiled surround and wooden mantel, a porcelain sink, together with a south, as well as regular services to Aberdeen. There is a nearby bus central island unit with a Gorenje four ring induction hob. The dining area stop with regular express bus services to both Aberdeen and Dundee. has wooden panelling to dado level and a corner fireplace with a wooden mantel. In addition there are three wall lights and a tiled floor. Off the Description kitchen is the pantry which has a door through to the hallway. This too Alma House is a most attractive house, set within its own gardens and has a tiled floor, together with wooden units and display and storage grounds, in the village of St Cyrus. It is a fine house which dates from cupboards, a small sink and is plumbed and vented for a dishwasher, 1865, or possibly earlier, and which was extended to the rear in the early dryer and washing machine and has space for an American style fridge 1900s. The house looks out over its own gardens, which are sheltered freezer. Also off the kitchen is a rear lobby with shelves and coat hooks by trees, providing privacy. Thus a key feature of the house is that it is and a back door to the garden. within the village, yet private. It is a stone built house with a slate roof, that still retains many of its period features and character. An elegant staircase with cast iron banisters and wooden handrail leads up to the first floor landing. This is lit by a large double glazed skylight, The house was originally called Alma Lodge and was named after the and has a hatch with an attic ladder to a partially floored roof space. Battle of Alma, which in 1854 was the first battle in the Crimean War. It There is a useful walk in hanging and shelved linen cupboard housing a is believed that the property was gifted by a local laird to his daughter, hot water tank. Bedroom 2 has a cornice, shutters, a walk in wardrobe for her forthcoming marriage, but that her fiancé was tragically killed at and a door to a shower room interlinking with the master bedroom. The the battle. At some stage the name was changed to Greywalls, despite master bedroom has a cornice, window shutters, cast iron fireplace with being built of red sandstone, but the name later reverted to Alma House. a wooden mantel, overmantel and tiled surround, oak flooring and under window shelves. The interlinking shower room has a corner shower It is a house that has benefitted from considerable improvements in cubicle, pedestal washbasin, WC and window shutters. The bathroom recent years, all of which have been done sympathetically. Since 2001 has a period roll top bath, corner shower cubicle, pedestal washbasin, it has been substantially rewired and re-plumbed. In 2013 the shower WC, together with a cornice, timber panelling to dado level and wooden room was refurbished, with the bathroom being redone in 2007. In flooring. Bedroom 4 has picture and dado rails and is presently used about 2010 oak hardwood floors were fitted throughout much of the as a dressing room. Bedroom 5 has a picture rail and a fitted hanging house and the boiler was replaced, whilst as recently as 2013 the kitchen cupboard. was refurbished. In 2016, new radiators and pipework for the central heating were installed, and the bedrooms 1, 2 and the sitting room were The expansive garden is enclosed on two sides by trees which, together redecorated. In 2018 the drawing room, hall, master bedroom, bathroom with shrubs, afford privacy and shelter. It mainly comprises lawns with and pantry were also redecorated. Plans have also been drawn up to flower and shrub borders. There is a paved patio area with a pizza oven subdivide the pantry into an en suite for bedroom 1, while still retaining and steps down to the main garden, at the bottom of which is a pond a pantry serving the kitchen (for further information please contact the and a small burn, with a wooded bank beyond. A wooden summer selling agents). As such it is a lovely family house, with well proportioned house overlooks the pond. and elegant reception rooms which are ideal for entertaining, whilst retaining so much of its original character with panelled doors, cornicings Off the drive is a useful wooden garage/workshop/store with a concrete and high level skirtings. floor and 3 phase electricity supply. To the side of the house is a range of stone built outbuildings including an office, store and a store room, with Stone gate piers, with a gate and wrought iron railings, open onto a a door through to the fuel store which houses the oil tank and a coal/log gravelled drive, lit by Victorian style lighting, which leads up to a parking bunker. Attached to the house is a further store. Energy Performance Certificate EPC Rating = F. Solicitors Shiells, 31a St David Street, Brechin, Angus, DD9 6EG. Services Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil fired central heating. Fixtures and Fittings Fitted carpets and light fittings are included. The curtains are available in addition, if required. Environmental Stipulations There is a Tree Preservation Order on the trees in the wooded bank. Servitude Rights, Burdens and 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 General Remarks and wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cable, drains and water, gas and Viewing other pipes, whether contained in the Title Deeds or informally constituted Strictly by appointment with Savills – 01356 628628. and whether referred to in the General Remarks and Stipulations or not. The Purchaser(s) will be held to have satisfied himself as to the nature of Directions all such servitude rights and others.