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Gartincaber Stables GARTINCABER STABLES DOUNE • PERTHSHIRE GARTINCABER STABLES DOUNE • PERTHSHIRE • FK16 6AX Stirling 9 miles, Gleneagles 19 miles, Glasgow 35 miles Entrance Hallway, Cloakroom, Sitting Room, Dining Room, Family Room and Kitchen Four Bedrooms (1 En Suite) and Family Bathroom Annexe Living Room, Dining Room and Kitchen, Two Bedrooms with shared En Suite Shower Room Converted coach house Mature Gardens, Woodland and Pond & stables arranged Double Garage, Workshops and Stores around a courtyard in About 7.79 Acres about 7.79 acres of mature gardens, woodland and pond Savills Edinburgh Wemyss House 8 Wemyss Place Edinburgh EH3 6DH Tel: 0131 247 3700 Email: [email protected] DIRECTIONS Thornhill (2 miles to the west) is a small village with an excellent primary school, Leave the M9 at junction 10 and head west local shop and popular pub. Doune (2 miles on the A84, passing Blair Drummond Safari east) also has several shops and the local Park. Take the B826 signposted for Thornhill health centre. Aberfoyle (11 miles west) and and follow for about 1.5 miles until the gate Callander (8 miles north) are large villages lodge to Gartincaber House. Turn left and with a range of local shops, small follow the driveway past the main house to supermarkets and banks. They also offer a Gartincaber Stables. wide variety of hotels and restaurants catering for an active tourist industry. SITUATION The historic city of Stirling (8 miles) is the major city of central Scotland. It provides a Gartincaber Stables occupies an attractive wide range of shops, schools and services countryside setting between Thornhill and including The Thistle Centre and The Thistle Doune and is within easy reach of Stirling, Marches, plus a full range of the well known Glasgow and central Scotland. supermarkets. There is a cinema, swimming pool and numerous golf courses within the The surrounding countryside is rolling vicinity including Stirling King’s Park, farmland interspersed with forestry. The Dunblane, Callander, and, of course, the Perthshire hills and the Loch Lomond and world famous Gleneagles. Bridge of Allan is the Trossachs National Park are nearby. To the home of the University of Stirling with the north west the landscape is genuinely its major sports complex, the MacRobert highland with mountains, lochs and glens. Arts Centre and the golf course. Also at This area offers many opportunities for Bridge of Allan is the private Beaconhurst outdoor pursuits with a number of walks in School. the Loch Ard Forest and hill walking and climbing in the mountains. The A84 from Callander is a main route into the Highlands, leading to Loch Earn, Loch Tay, Crianlarich, Glencoe, Fort William and Oban. The private schools of Perthshire are also A long grass flanked shared driveway leads within easy reach. Glasgow, the largest city down from the main road passing of Scotland, is 35 miles to the southwest via Gartincaber House and into the grounds of the A81 through Strathblane or 30 miles via Gartincaber Stables. The gravel driveway the M80, which also gives very easy access to sweeps round the side of the house to a Perth and Edinburgh. Edinburgh and gravel courtyard. Glasgow Airports are easily reached by motorway. Stirling has a major railway The front door leads into a wide vestibule station with good service connections to off which is a cloakroom with wc and from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, where stone steps lead up to the first floor. Aberdeen and Inverness, plus direct services The sitting room opens off the hallway and to London. has splendid archways with windows set below and exposed stone walls. To one end of the room is an open fireplace and at the DESCRIPTION other end is a stove which heats both the sitting and dining rooms. The dining room Gartincaber Stables is thought to date back sits next door and shares the stove with the to around 1825 and as its name suggests was sitting room. A corridor continues from here, the coach house and stable block to passing the back door, into the family and Gartincaber House which lies a few hundred utility room. At one end of the room there yards away. The building has been very well are base units which have an integrated sink converted to provide additional separate and plumbing for a washing machine. accommodation and is arranged, along with its outbuildings, around a central courtyard. Stairs lead from the family room to the first The stone built property has pitched slate floor. The kitchen opens off the family roofs and the gardens around the house room and has a door out to the courtyard extend out to the south and west. and a further door to the side garden. It features a range of fitted timber base and wall units with tiled worktops. Integrated appliances include a four burner gas hob, Bosch dishwasher, 1.5 bowl sink in front of the window and electric oven/ grill. The ANNEXE kitchen has space for a dining table by the Situated to the east end of the house is a self window. contained annexe which has a sitting room, dining room and kitchen on the ground At the top of the stone staircase to the first floor. The kitchen has a range of fitted base floor the landing splits. To the right is a door and wall units with a display cabinet and a to the annexe bedrooms and to the left is a serving hatch to the sitting room. Integrated hallway leading to a single and two double appliances include a Whirlpool fridge, Bejam south facing bedrooms and the family freezer, Beko washing machine and New bathroom which has a bath with shower World oven and grill with gas hobs and over, a WC and a wash hand basin. extractor fan over. The dining room is set between the sitting room and kitchen and The corridor continues through an exposed has windows on two aspects and a corner stone archway to the set of stairs which lead cupboard. The adjacent sitting room has a down to the family room. By these stairs is decorative fireplace with electric coal effect the master bedroom which has a glazed door fire. This has windows on two aspects out to stone steps with a wrought iron looking up the driveway and out to the banister leading down to the side garden. central courtyard. Accessed by the stone The master bedroom has a range of built in staircase from the hallway and to the right wardrobes and has an enclosed area with a are two double bedrooms which share an en bath with shower over and a vanity unit with suite shower room which has a wash hand inset wash hand basin, and a separate WC basin, WC and walk in shower. The annexe cubicle. The room is lit by a window to the can be separated off from the main house by north and the glazed door to the east which locking the door from the hallway to the looks over the Stirlingshire fields to the sitting room and the connecting door from Ochil Hills beyond. the landing. Annexe Annexe OUTSIDE The outbuildings, many of which were By the driveway is a large area of lawn which previously stables, include a range of garden has an arrangement of mature trees which stores, a workshop, a log store, double garage form part of what was a paddock. Beyond with loft space above, tractor store with this there is a poly tunnel which has its own double doors and a stone staircase leading to water supply and beds on either side with a the hay loft above. Adjacent to this is the old pathway running through the middle. A piggery which is currently used as a log store grass pathway from here leads on down to and has three separate bays, one with a the pond which extends to about half an garden WC. The garage has a large floored acre. Within the pond are a series of islands, ceiling with ladder access. two of which have bridges to access them. A bridge crosses the bottom of the pond and a path leads on along the boundary to the south. The path continues up to the west Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Not to Scale mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office where there are further areas of woodland. © Crown copyright (100041908) Beyond the courtyard is another large area of lawn and a grass avenue which is lined with mature trees on either side and is thought to be the old road which serviced the stables from the south. The gravelled parking area which is enclosed on two side by the house gives access to the double garage and other outbuildings and has a large stone built turning circle in the middle and flower beds at the foot of the walls. Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Not to Scale mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908) G For Identification Only. Not To Scale. © Square Foot Media. 5.08 x 2.74 16'8'' x 9' Bedroom 1 Upper Log 4.50 x 3.94 Workshop Cellar Kitchen Store Store 4.62 x 3.02 14'9'' x 12'11'' 4.57 x 3.05 4.57 x 2.29 5.13 x 4.34 4.57 x 2.29 4.57 x 2.54 15'2'' x 9'11'' 15' x 10' 15' x 7'6'' 16'10'' x 14'3'' 15' x 7'6'' 15' x 8'4'' Greenhouse Family Room 5.08 x 4.50 Ensuite 16'8'' x 14'9'' Bathroom WC Lower Store Ground Floor Gartincaber Stables, Dining Bedroom 2 Doune, FK16 6AX Room 3.43 x 2.97 5.16 x 3.07 11'3'' x 9'9'' Gross internal area (approx) 16'11'' x 10'1'' 432.91 sq.m (4660 sq.ft) (Including Workshop,Stores & Green House) Out Buildings Gross internal area (approx) 82.22 sq.m (885 sq.ft) For Identification Only.
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