THE HERMITAGE Ladywalk • • • KY10 3EH

THE HERMITAGE Ladywalk • Anstruther • Fife • KY10 3EH Historic house within Anstruther conservation area with lovely garden and sea views overlooking the coast

St Andrews 9.5 miles, 24 miles, 49 miles = Hall, library, kitchen, dining room, pantry & utility room, cloakroom, office, shower room, sitting room, playroom Drawing room, master bedroom with dressing room (bedroom 6) and en suite bathroom. Guest bedroom Three further bedrooms, family bathroom In and out garage and additional off street parking Outbuildings Garden EPC Rating = D

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SITUATION The Hermitage, with its large garden, sits in a secluded setting in the centre of Anstruther. It has superb proximity for the beach, harbour and town services yet is in an enviable position set away from the main thoroughfares.

The East Neuk of Fife is renowned for being one of the driest and sunniest parts of . It boasts a number of fishing villages built around picturesque harbours, sandy unspoilt beaches and rich farmland. The town of Anstruther has a vibrant community. It has a working harbour, is home to the local RNLI, and has excellent facilities for pleasure boats. It has a good range of independent retailers and some highly regarded restaurants, a large supermarket as well as primary and secondary schooling. Co-educational private schooling is available locally at St Leonards in and Dundee High School is also within easy reach. St Andrews, ‘the home of golf‘ and the setting for one of Britain’s oldest universities, is only 13 miles away. There are traditional links golf courses at nearby , Leven and Lundin Links and new courses at and St Andrews Bay. St Andrews has an excellent selection of shops, restaurants and services to supplement those available within Anstruther.

Access by rail, road and air is good. Edinburgh International Airport (46 miles) is very accessible via the A92 dual carriageway connection from and the , and Dundee Airport (25 miles) has scheduled flights to Stansted. (16 miles) and (15 miles) railway stations are on the main Aberdeen to London line and provide a fast link to Edinburgh. Outside there is an outbuilding with loft creating excellent storage space and providing renovation potential. The garden is expansive and south facing and includes a small kitchen garden. There is an in and out garage leading off the street to a parking area by the house and garden.

DIRECTIONS From Shore Street in the centre of Anstruther turn up Haddfoot Wynd at the Fisheries Museum and continue to the very top of Chalmers Brae. Turn left onto Backdykes. The Hermitage is at the end of Backdykes where it joins Ladywalk.

GENERAL REMARKS Services A passageway running along the north side of to the west and south over the coast. The master DESCRIPTION Mains water, gas, electricity and drainage. The Hermitage dates from c1720 and was largely the house has plenty of storage, a utility room bedroom has similarly spectacular views. It has Separate central heating boilers for the cottage reconstructed in 1815 to create a home for Sir and pantry. The east wing has a study, sitting a large en suite bathroom and a dressing room and the main house. John Goodsir, surgeon and anatomist. This room and separate hall with a second entrance which links through to the east wing where there is a building of stature yet the accommodation from the street. This entrance hall is currently is a guest bedroom. A back staircase leads down Conservation Area & Listing is ideally suited for family living. There is used as a study area. The main entrance to the to a further shower room adjacent to the study The Hermitage, including its garden walls and flexibility with the cottage which is the east wing house is through a small library and hall that area. On the second floor there are three further outbuildings are category B listed and lie within of the house and is currently interconnected leads to the curved staircase sweeping up to the bedrooms and a family bathroom. the Anstruther Conservation Area. to the house but can be self contained with drawing room on the first floor which has views a separate entrance to the street. There is potential to create further accommodation in the outbuildings subject to planning approval. The house is essentially one room deep which means that all the rooms overlook either the garden or have sea views.

On the ground floor a modern family dining kitchen has been created which opens into the large lawned garden. This is a lovely garden room with a range of fitted painted timber units under granite worktops. Appliances include a Rangemaster range, Siemens dishwasher and Samsung American style fried freezer. Adjacent to this there is a cloakroom and porch with back entrance to the street. 1

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