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BONKYL LODGE PRESTON • DUNS • BERWICKSHIRE BONKYL LODGE PRESTON • DUNS • BERWICKSHIRE • TD11 3TG Duns 3 miles, Berwick Upon Tweed 14.5 miles, Edinburgh 46.5 miles, Newcastle 78.5 miles BONKYL LODGE Entrance hall, reception hall, four reception rooms, kitchen with dining room, garden room. Cloakroom with WC, boot room, pantry, larder, laundry. Master suite with dressing room and en suite bathroom, eight bedrooms (two en suite), two bathrooms, linen room, store room. Top floor flat: Three bedrooms, sitting room, kitchen with dining area, bathroom. Boiler room with log store, outside store rooms, greenhouse, gardens. Listed walled garden, riding arena, two paddocks, pond. Stables with five loose boxes and two stores. Impressive period mansion house set in private grounds BONKYL STABLE HOUSE with range of dwellings Dining room, sitting room, family room, kitchen, utility room with pantry. and outbuildings Three bedrooms, bathroom, shower room. Two loft stores, boiler room with log store, oil store and WC. BONKYL GATE HOUSE Kitchen with dining area, sitting room, three bedrooms, bathroom. Savills Edinburgh Wemyss House 8 Wemyss Place Edinburgh EH3 6DH 0131 247 3700 [email protected] DIRECTIONS The Borders region is an area renowned for its unspoilt rural landscape and for its country From Edinburgh take the A1 headed east for sports. The River Tweed is one of Scotland’s 36 miles, turn right off the A1 at the junction best known salmon rivers and is one of the for Grantshouse, onto the A6112. Follow this key attractions of the area. Favoured for its road for 6 miles, the entrance to Bonkyl country sports, Berwickshire offers pheasant Lodge is on the left hand side just before and grouse shooting on local estates and on entering Preston. the Lammermuir Hills to the northeast. Golf courses nearby include the Roxburghe, The SITUATION Hirsel and Duns, and championship courses are within reasonable distance at Gullane, Bonkyl Lodge is set in the idyllic rolling North Berwick and Muirfield. countryside of the Scottish Borders, in a rural position offering easy access to both Edinburgh and Newcastle. Berwick-upon- DESCRIPTION Tweed,14.5 miles to the east, is the principal Built in 1878, Bonkyl Lodge is an impressive town of the area and provides an excellent and commanding period house set in the range of shops and professional services as heart of the Scottish Borders, and surrounded well as a mainline railway station with a by private grounds including paddocks, fast service south to London and north to grazing fields, stabling and an immaculate C Edinburgh. Edinburgh is 46.5 miles via the Listed walled garden. A1 and Newcastle is 78.5 miles to the south. Edinburgh and Newcastle airports both run Entering the property from the north facing regular domestic and international flights. main door, an entrance hall with ornate open fireplace is lit by a double height sash and Duns, 3 miles to the southwest, is the county case window overlooking the north field. To town, with a primary school, secondary the right of this hall is the main reception school, sports centre and a good range of hall with magnificent staircase and open shops. Chirnside, 5 miles to the east, also has fireplace providing focal points. From the a range of local shops and services. Private reception hall a library is accessed which schooling is available in Edinburgh and features fitted floor to ceiling bookshelves, Berwick-upon-Tweed and preparatory schools and two sash and case windows with internal can be found at Dunbar (Belhaven) and shutters overlooking the west garden. Melrose (St Mary’s). To the rear of the reception hall, adjacent to the library, is the generously proportioned drawing room with three bay windows overlooking the garden, French doors leading on the south patio, and a large open fireplace. A rear door leads from the patio, into a The main staircase from the reception hall vestibule which opens up onto the rear of leads up to the first floor landing where eight the reception hall. A spacious dining room bedrooms are situated, two with en suite sits opposite the drawing room, featuring shower rooms. The master suite lies to the two large windows, an open fireplace, a linen east of the landing and features an en suite press, ornate cornicing and wood panelling. bathroom with bath, shower, WC and basin, A door leads into a secondary hall which a walkthrough dressing room, large bedroom links up to the entrance hall, from which a with dual aspect windows and access into a cloakroom with WC, secondary staircase and further room currently used as a secondary pantry are all accessed. dressing room. To the west of the hall is the open plan and From the landing, seven further bedrooms superbly finished kitchen, family room and and two bathrooms are all accessed. A rear garden room. The large space is floored with staircase leads down to the west side of paved slabs throughout adding a continuity to the house. In the middle of the landing a the flowing areas. The family room provides secondary staircase leads up to the second a snug relaxation area with log burning fire, floor landing where there is a self contained fitted bookshelves, two windows overlooking flat with three bedrooms with coombed the north field, and two recessed shelves. The ceilings and dormer windows, a kitchen with kitchen and dining area are cleverly divided dining area, sitting room and bathroom. by an island with integrated sink, shelves and breakfast bar. The kitchen features a five door OUTSIDE dark grey Aga, integrated Leibherr fridge and freezer, Miele dishwasher and fitted base and Within the 22.6 acres of grounds that wall units. Two sliding French doors open surround Bonkyl Lodge are two grazing onto the bright garden room which has fitted fields, two paddocks, a dressage arena, blinds, base units and two doors opening stabling with five loose boxes and a C listed onto the patio. walled garden. To the south of the kitchen is a small hall The interior of the C Listed walled garden is which provides access to a number of store divided into quadrants, with gravel pathways rooms including a boot room with open linking the internal area. Adjacent to all four fireplace, larder and utility room. Stone steps walls are productive herbaceous borders, lead down to the cellar which houses a boiler kitchen beds, and vegetable plots. room and log store. A pretty garden surrounds the property GENERAL REMARKS with lawns, mature trees and flower beds. There is a greenhouse and patio to the south SERVICES of Bonkyl Lodge. Woodland runs down Mains water and electricity, private drainage, to a tranquil burn with paths and bridges oil fired boiler. providing a peaceful place to walk. There are a number of stores that are housed to the FIXTURES AND FITTINGS southwest of the property. All standard fixtures and fittings are to be included in the sale. BONKYL GATE HOUSE LOCAL AUTHORITY Bonkyl Gate House is located to the northeast Bonkyl Lodge is within the Scottish Borders of Bonkyl Lodge, next to the original gate council band H. posts and main entrance to the grounds. The Bonkyl Stables House is within the Scottish property comprises a kitchen with dining Border council band B. area, sitting room with fireplace and bay window, bathroom and three bedrooms. The Bonkyl Gate House is within the Scottish front entrance for the property is housed Border council band D. Bonkyl Gate House under a lean-to verandah. LISTING Bonkyl Gate House is a C listed building. The BONKYL STABLE HOUSE walled garden is also C listed. Set to the northeast of Bonkyl Lodge, Bonkyl Stables House is currently let out very ACCESS successfully as a holiday home. Upon entering Main access to the property is from the the property into the dining area, a stone A6112, passing Bonkyl Gate House. arch provides a focal point, which would have been the original entrance to the building. OFFERS To the left is a spacious sitting room with log Offers, in Scottish legal form, must be burner, and WC, and access into the family submitted by your solicitor to the Selling room. The kitchen is open plan to the dining Agents. room, with a utility room with pantry and access into the boiler room and log store. If It is intended to set a closing date, the seller reserves the right to negotiate a sale On the first floor landing are three bedrooms, with a single party. All genuinely interested a bathroom and shower room. parties are advised to instruct their solicitor to note their interest with the Selling Agents immediately after inspection. Bonkyl Stable House BONKYL LODGE PRESTON, DUNS, BERWICKSHIRE, TD11 3TG Gross internal area (approx) 1079.87 sq.m (11624 sq.ft) (Including Greenhouse, Stores) For Identification Only. Not To Scale. Garden Room 8.15 x 4.88 Green 26'9'' x 16' House 8.08 x 3.05 Vestibule 26'6'' x 10' Drawing Store Room Store Store 9.09 x 6.91 Store Utility Oil 3.05 x 2.51 Store 3.12 x 2.21 29'10'' x 22'8'' 2.59 x 2.51 Laundry 2.57 x 1.88 Tank 10' x 8'3'' 10'3'' x 7'3'' 8'6'' x 8'3'' 3.12 x 2.41 8'5'' x 6'2'' Kitchen/ WC 10'3'' x 7'11'' Dining Pantry Room 5.13 x 3.40 7.67 x 5.05 16'10'' x 11'2'' 25'2'' x 16'7'' Dining Room 7.11 x 5.38 23'4'' x 17'8'' Store Hall Hall Reception Hall Library Boiler 5.38 x 4.83 Room 17'8'' x 15'10'' 4.29 x 3.58 14'1'' x 11'9'' Store Boot Family Room Room Entrance 4.80 x 3.23 5.03 x 4.83 Store Cloak Hall Log 15'9'' x 10'7'' 16'6'' x 15'10'' Larder Room Store Store 4.04 x 2.92 3.15 x 2.26 3.58 x 2.03 13'3'' x 9'7'' 10'4'' x 7'5'' 11'9'' x 6'8'' WC Vestibule LOWER GROUND FLOOR GROUND FLOOR 4.27