Fully Renovated and Extended Former Manse
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Fully renovated and extended former manse Kincordie House, Kingennie, by Broughty Ferry, Angus, DD5 3NZ Fully renovated and extended former manse Ground floor: Hallway • sitting room • family room • dining room • open plan kitchen / living room • playroom / studio • office • cloakroom • utility / boiler room • two bedrooms and shower room First floor: Four bedrooms (two en suite) • family bathroom Outside: Courtyard with greenhouses and kennel • delightful enclosed gardens • double garage • in all about 0.92 acres EPC rating: E Distances: Broughty Ferry 4 miles, Dundee 6 miles, Carnoustie 8 miles, Forfar 14 miles, Perth 26 miles Situation Dundee train station and the Tay Kincordie House is situated in Bridge, and likewise only four rolling countryside that covers miles from the centre of the southern flanks of the Broughty Ferry. Sidlaw Hills. Crombie and Broughty Ferry has a wide Monikie country parks are easily choice of shopping facilities and reached as is sailing on the supermarkets, a library, the River Tay and a choice of sandy Castle museum and a beach, beaches. Close by, the Forbes of together with a train station, Kingennie Country Resort has a harbour and the Royal Tay Yacht renowned restaurant, four well Club. Nearby Dundee is a stocked lochans for bait and fly university city of established fishing, and a 9 hole golf course, excellence, most particularly in There are also a number of fine computing and life sciences. It links courses in the area too has a comprehensive range including Barry, Panmure, of shops and professional Monifieth and, of course, services, together with good Carnoustie, which has hosted leisure opportunities and eight open championships, renowned cultural facilities, such most recently in 2018. The as the new V&A museum. In ancient town of St Andrews, the addition there is a railway home of golf and host to the station at both Broughty Ferry oldest university in Scotland, is and Carnoustie and a mainline also within commuting distance. station at Dundee, with services Yet despite its rural location, to Aberdeen and to the south, Kincordie House is well including a sleeper. Dundee connected. There is a primary Airport has direct services to school and village shop in both London Stansted and both the nearby villages of Edinburgh and Aberdeen Newbigging and Wellbank. airports are easily reached. Local secondary schooling is The A90 dual carriageway links found in Carnoustie and to both Aberdeen and Perth, Monifieth, with private schooling and beyond to Edinburgh and at the High School of Dundee. Glasgow. It is less than six miles from Description first floor bedrooms. The Kincordie House is a most principal rooms are well attractive and handsome former proportioned and designed to manse, which is believed to date make the most of the views and from 1854. It was built by the the gardens. There is a congregation of the First Free sheltered courtyard to the rear. Church of Monifieth, adjacent to On one side of the elegant their Hillock church. The house hallway is the family room and ceased being a manse in the the playroom / studio while on early 20th century whereas the the other is the sitting room and church closed in the 1960s and the dining room which both was converted into two houses open into the open-plan around 2005. kitchen/ living room. This space As befits a manse, Kincordie is very much the hub of the House is a fine, stone built house house and makes much of its with a slate roof. It is thought to southerly aspect and garden have been extended first in the views. With both direct access early 1900s and then again in outside to a south facing stone 2005, when the remaining terrace and inside to the formal outbuildings were converted dining room, it is designed for and incorporated into the house easy entertaining irrespective of to create a modern open plan the season, whether small family kitchen / living room and a suite gatherings or large formal of two bedrooms and a shower parties. Also at ground floor room. A new double garage was level is a cloakroom, a home also built and the immediate office, and a utility / boiler room. driveway block paved. The Behind the kitchen, a corridor house now benefits from partial leads to a suite of rooms, double glazing. It was acquired currently used as two by the sellers in 2010 who have downstairs bedrooms and a implemented a further shower room. Upstairs are four programme of improvements bedrooms of which two are en which included a new bunded suite, with one currently used as oil tank, a computerised zoned a bedroom-cum-dressing room, central heating system, a and a family bathroom. condensing oil boiler and a The property is approached pressurised hot water system. by an outer drive that leads It is understood that the hot through a set of gates onto a water tank has potential to mono block paved surface accept solar roof panels, subject which culminates in a turning to planning permissions. area in front of the house and In addition, the kitchen was the garage. A wooden front re-modelled, the house door with a glazed overlight re-decorated and mostly opens to an entrance vestibule re-carpeted, and the three with a tiled floor and inner fireplaces made functional. partially glazed and etched door As such, the house is to the hallway. This has a dado extremely well presented for rail, two picture lights, two wall modern living yet still retains lights, tiled floor and an plenty of character and many of understairs cupboard. The its original features including impressive sitting room has a cornices and window shutters in fireplace with carved wooden the main reception rooms and mantel and Franklin style wood burning stove, together with splashback and a Panasonic shelved and hanging wardrobes, delightful gardens which have through Kingennie, and the Services recessed display shelves. American style fridge freezer wooden flooring and a wet a further paved and sheltered turning into Kincordie House is Mains water and electricity, Opposite is the family room with water and ice dispenser. walled en suite shower room seating area facing due south on the left just after the private drainage. Oil fired which has a central ceiling rose, A wooden floored back hall links with electric corner shower, and overlooking flower and converted church. Proceed central heating. panelled walls, a fireplace with the kitchen / living room with pedestal washbasin and WC. shrub borders, a circular rose 30m before turning left again brick mantel and surround the ground floor bedrooms, the Bedroom five has tall built in bed with a sundial and a small through the stone gate piers. Fixtures and Fittings housing a Stovax inset stove, cloakroom, beyond to the office wardrobes. Bedroom six bridge over a lily pond. There Proceed through the inner gate Fitted carpets, curtains and light high level skirting and recessed and utility room, and outside to (master bedroom) has two are further areas of garden and up to the front door. fittings are included other than shelves. The playroom / studio the courtyard and vegetable window seats, a fitted corner which include additional fruit the light fitting above the also has access to the back hall garden. The useful cloakroom cupboard and a freestanding beds, a cold frame, a wooden From the South/West circular table in the kitchen/ and features a window seat and contains a WC, washbasin, coat wardrobe. It has a spacious en pergola and a small orchard From Dundee take the A92 living area which is excluded. fireplace with wooden mantel hooks and a tiled floor. suite bathroom containing a which contains a wildflower (Dundee/ Arbroath dual The circular table and chairs are that houses a Morso wood Bedrooms one and two both bath, circular washbasin, large meadow. There is a timber carriageway) and at the included. All bedroom burning stove. The dining room have built in wardrobes, while shower cubicle, WC and a garden shed (3.6 m x 3.6 m), Claypotts junction (adjacent to wardrobes are included. The is another good sized reception the shower room is partially tiled window seat. The family which is internally divided into Sainsburys) take the B978 garden table and chairs are room and also has panelled with pedestal washbasin and bathroom has a bath with tiled a potting shed and garden tool northward . After 0.5 miles, at included as is the metal bench walls, together with three wall WC. The office overlooks the surround, tiled shower cubicle store, while behind is a screened the end of a short section of outside the potting shed, and lights, corner shelved cupboard, courtyard and has wall mounted with body jets, washbasin, WC area with large composting bins. dual carriageway, turn right and the John Deere ride on mower is wooden flooring, and direct bookshelves. The utility room / and a tiled floor. right again, onto Drumsturdy also included. The curved access to the open plan kitchen boiler room has floor, wall and Outside, within the paved General Remarks Road (B961) signposted wooden bench is excluded. / living room. tall storage units, a sink, Bosch courtyard are two small Viewing Monikie. Continue for 1.7 miles This is a magnificent space. washing machine, ceiling greenhouses, a coal bunker, a Strictly by appointment with and the turning into Kincordie Access The living area has wooden mounted clothes rack, wood store, and a dog kennel Savills – 01356 628628. House is on the right, just before There is a right of access in flooring and full height windows Worcester oil fired boiler, hot and run, now used as a further the converted church and favour of Kincordie House over and doors making the most of water tank, tall John Lewis wood store.