Magnificent Edwardian villa in excellent location

Scotscraig House, 18 Park , Paisley, , PA2 6JW Grand reception hallway • Cloakroom/ WC • Drawing room Formal dining room • Morning room • Dining kitchen Breakfast room • Office • Laundry room and stores Billiard room • 7 bedrooms (2 with en suite bathrooms) • 4 additional bathrooms Second floor flat: Sitting room • 3 bedrooms • Shower room • Kitchen Coach house • Beautiful mature gardens

Distances With its origins in the Middle Paisley: 1.7 miles Ages, the historic town of Airport: 3.2 miles Paisley, said to have been Glasgow: 10.7 miles established in the 6th or 7th century, has become the Directions second largest town in Leave the M8 at Junction 27 and boasts the and turn left into Renfrew internationally renowned Road (A741). Go straight on which was through the next two favoured by the Bruce and roundabouts and straight Stewart royal families. It is through a set of traffic lights, generally accepted that then under a railway bridge. William Wallace, the great Continue through the next two hero of Scottish independence, sets of traffic lights, passing was educated in the town. the Watermill Hotel. At the Famous for its next set of traffic lights turn industry, the town spawned a left into Causeyside Street. number of related industries Shortly after the pedestrian and manufacturers, one of the crossing turn right into Calside most notable being J P Coats. Road (by the Craig Dhu ). The town is bisected by the Follow the road straight on Whitecart Water which is a and up a steep winding hill. tributary of the Clyde Estuary. After the brow of the hill, with The estuary is famed for its a park on your left, take the first class sailing facilities with left fork into Park Road. The a number of marinas and entrance to Scotscraig House sailing clubs and the Firth of is the third drive on the right. Clyde coastline is renowned for its internationally Situation acclaimed courses Scotscraig occupies one of the including Turnberry, Royal finest locations in Paisley and Troon and Old Prestwick. is set in mature gardens with Braehead and Silverburn retail beautiful open aspects beyond centre, Xscape leisure the town to the surrounding complex, the Lagoon indoor countryside. Park Road is water centre, Ralston and regarded as one of the finest Barrshaw Park golf courses are locations in Paisley and is all readily accessible from the synonymous with high quality property. detached villas. It enjoys easy access to and Glasgow centre.

The outlying of Bridge daughter, Lady Violet Bonham of Weir and Kilmacolm boast a Carter, who campaigned for him further selection of recreational in the by-election. facilities including Old Ranfurly It is understood that the and Ranfurly Castle golf family remained in Scotscraig courses, Kilmacolm golf course for over 53 years. The house and tennis and bowling clubs. was then used as a school. It has The David Lloyd tennis centre is been lovingly restored by the less than 4 miles from the current owners as a family home property. The Bridge, and has been used as a location some 8 miles away, gives access in the popular detective TV to Loch Lomond and the series Rebus. Trossachs. Renfrewshire boasts some of Historical Note the most picturesque scenery Scotscraig’s architect was John within the West of Scotland and Hutchison who was born in a number of attractive villages Paisley c.1841 and educated in which afford a broad spectrum Paisley and at Glasgow High of places of interest, recreational School and was articled to John facilities, cycle tracks and Thomas Rochead. He pleasant walks. commenced practice on his own account at 14 Causeyside, Description Paisley, some time prior to 1868. Scotscraig is a magnificent, Although he subsequently Category B Listed building built practised in Glasgow, he around 1901 in the Tudor revival continued to live in Paisley and a style beloved by the large part of his business came Edwardians, with Scots from there. Notably Charles Renaissance detailing and a Rennie Mackintosh served as an wealth of traditional features apprentice under him. including panelled plaster The coach house was ceilings, beautifully carved designed by TG Abercrombie, staircase newels and a an apprentice of Hutchison and wainscoted reception hall. It was added in 1912. TG offers well proportioned Abercrombie became an accommodation of some 7647 eminent Paisley architect in his sq ft over three levels. own right, with links to the Coats The villa was built for the family. Paisley industrialist John Scott Eadie of Eadie Brothers, Accommodation manufacturers of equipment for Scotscraig has been carefully the textile industry, most maintained by the current notably a device called a Ring owners over the last five years. Traveller. John Scott Eadie is It is entered through a said to have entertained Herbert magnificent reception hall with Henry Asquith (Prime Minister richly coloured timber from 1906 to 1918) and his wife wainscoting incorporating an at Scotscraig; Asquith was open fireplace with tiled elected MP for Paisley in a surround, panelled ceiling by-election in 1920. The house plasterwork and a grand is mentioned in the letters of his staircase. There is a cloakroom The three principal reception kitchen an inner hallway leads to rooms open from the hallway. a breakfast room and maids’ The drawing room and dining staircase and full height room are linked by an open cupboard. archway, and offer a beautiful The staircase walls are timber space for entertaining on a panelled and lit by a magnificent grand scale. The ceiling cupola, recently redecorated. plasterwork in both rooms is The staircase newel posts are similar to that in the hallway, and richly carved in the Arts and they have picture rails. The Crafts style. There are five drawing room has southwest- bedrooms on this floor, three facing sash and case windows bathrooms and a superb billiard on one side and a box bay room. Bedroom 1 has a window overlooking the front semi-circular bay window, gardens and countryside decorative frieze and a large beyond. At the focal point is an and luxurious en suite bathroom open fireplace with a marble with a marble topped vanity hearth and painted timber unit with an oval basin, a Jacuzzi mantelpiece. The dining room bath and a return door to the enjoys a lovely outlook over the landing. Bedroom 2 also has an garden from its semi-circular en suite bathroom, similarly bay window with sash and case equipped, and has windows on windows with stained glass and two aspects with beautiful leaded upper sashes. It has a views over the gardens and similar fireplace to the drawing beyond to the Gleniffer Hills. room, although it is sealed and There are three further double not in use, and timber flooring. bedrooms, one of which has Also off the hallway is the sitting fitted wardrobes, and a family room, an equally beautiful but bathroom. The billiard room, more intimate room with still used for its original purpose, cornicing and a ceiling rose, and has the original oak parquet built in bookcases either side of flooring, a handsome timber a panelled chimney breast with fireplace (not in use) and French an Adam style mantelpiece and doors to a balcony. black marble hearth. Three The second floor is accessed large sash and case windows by a separate staircase and make the room very light. could be used as self-contained A door from the hallway leads accommodation. There are through into the L-shaped three double bedrooms, the kitchen. It has a breakfasting largest of which could be used area and a fine range of base as a sitting room, a kitchen, a mounted units with worktops bathroom and a shower room. coordinating with the black four A large laundry and storeroom oven gas fired AGA. Off the houses the water tank. kitchen a hallway, with a back The gardens to the front of door to the garden, gives access Scotscraig are terraced, with to an office, a cloakroom with rhododendrons, a wildlife pond WC, a large built in cupboard and former tennis court or and the utility room, which has croquet lawn. There are paved fitted units and a tiled floor. areas, rockeries, drying green From the other side of the and greenhouse. To the rear of the property is a Stipulations or not. The large parking area. The gardens Purchaser(s) will be held to have boast a wide range of mature satisfied himself as to the nature trees and shrubs which offer of all such servitude rights and screening and privacy. others. Scotscraig’s garden was invited to be part of Scotland’s Garden Possession Scheme. Vacant possession and entry To the rear of the house is a will be given on completion. detached garage or former coach house with a pitched roof Offers and three doors. It can Offers must be submitted in accommodate four cars. Scottish legal terms to the Selling Agents. A closing date Local authority for offers may be fixed and Renfrewshire Council prospective purchasers are advised to register their interest EPC Rating with the Selling Agents Band C following inspection.

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Scotscraig, Paisley Gross internal area(approx.): 703.3 sq. metres (7646.2 sq. feet)

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