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Castle Hill View A beautiful collection of serviced plots with Detailed Planning Permission in Kinross-shire, Scotland. custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View WELCOME TO CASTLE HILL VIEW This fantastic new development offers you the opportunity to create your own custom build home in a beautiful corner of central Scotland. Choose from two serviced plots, each with space to build a comfortable four or five bedroom home, designed to put your needs first. You can customise your home easily, choosing a design which reflects your lifestyle, and fittings that infuse your living spaces with your personality. Your new home at Castle Hill View will benefit from its quiet and rural location on the edge of Rumbling Bridge, a short drive from the town of Dollar. The site is surrounded by beautiful countryside, yet it is accessible with good connections to smaller towns and larger cities around Scotland, including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth. custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View THE DEVELOPMENT This site has been masterplanned for four serviced plots, each with a separate garage space. Each one comfortably fits a five bedroom home, with space over two floors. The homes have been designed with great care, so they echo the local vernacular. Plots 3 and 4 benefit from south facing gardens with beautiful views over the Ochil Hills surrounding this site. Trees to the east and west maintain a sense of privacy, separating the homes from nearby properties, and acting as a natural buffer to any noise. Beech hedges will be planted within the development to create a natural boundary dividing each plot from its neighbour. The homes have been designed by Matthew Pease, a local architect, with a choice of four different interior layouts for plot purchasers to choose from. Matthew was selected for his familiarity with the area, and his extensive experience enhancing conservation villages, such as Muckhart. His designs blend naturally with the surrounding areas of Castle Hill View, and the flexibility available allows custom builders to create their own spaces reflecting their lifestyle. custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View THE LOCAL AREA Castle Hill View is located in the quiet hamlet of Rumbling Bridge, named after the nearby double bridge, which creates a rumbling reverberation at lower levels. The village of Muckhart is within easy walking distance and is home to an excellent Golf Club and a local primary school. There are beautiful walks in the area, including through Geordies Wood, part of the Muckhart Nature Park. The nearby town of Dollar has many local amenities, such as a post office, shops, and pubs, as well as a recently restored 110 year old Japanese garden. The town is also home to the prestigious Dollar Academy, the Sunday Times Scottish Independent Secondary School of the Year. You will be well connected with Stirling and Dunfermline half an hour’s drive away, and the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are within commuting distance and within both you can fine a huge variety of historic attractions, sports grounds, theatres, shops, and restaurants, as well as International airports. THE MUCKHART GOLF COURSE IN THE HEART OF THE GLEN custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View A91 3 1 Castle Hill View THE 2 A91 PERFECT HUB M90 A92 Castle Hill View is in the perfect location for anyone looking to commute to Stirling, Perth, Edinburgh or even Glasgow. Lying just south of the A91, the road east takes you to the M90 and onto Perth and Edinburgh, while 4 travelling West carries you along to Stirling, the M80 and Glasgow. Dunfermline A832 01 Castle Hill View 05 Edinburgh Airport (38mins) 30 miles 02 Dollar (10mins) 5 miles 06 Edinburgh (49mins) 31 miles 03 Kinross (12mins) 7 miles Perth (29mins) 23 miles M9 04 Dunfermline (23mins) 12 miles Stirling (32mins) 18 miles EDUCATION 5 6 • Muckhart Primary School, 4 mins Edinburgh • Dollar Nursery School, 10 mins • Dollar Academy, 10 mins • Alva Academy, 19 mins • Forth Valley College, 19 mins • University of Dundee, 48 mins • University of St Andrews, 51 mins. custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View Plot 1 Plot 2 CHOOSE YOUR HOME AT CASTLE HILL VIEW Garage Garage Each home has been expertly designed by local architect, Garage Matthew Pease, to blend into the local vernacular. Each Plot 4 Garage Front Side home is one and a half storeys tall, allowing for living over two spacious floors and accommodating up to five bedrooms. Plot 3 These home designs have already achieved Detailed Planning Permission, allowing purchasers to speed up their custom build process. Plot 3 Plot 4 Plot price – £175,000 Plot price – £175,000 Gross internal area - 214m2* Gross internal area - 214m2* Plot 3 & 4 Plot size - 878m2* Plot size - 1113m2* Up to 5 Bedrooms Up to 5 Bedrooms Rear Garage space Garage space South facing garden South facing garden Serviced plot Serviced plot *All sizes are approximate custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View INTERIOR LAYOUT OPTIONS KITCHEN EN SUITE 1 KITCHEN EN SUITE 1 The interior layout is key to ensuring that your home reflects your UTILITY Option 2 UTILITY lifestyle now, and supports you in the future. You can choose the pre- designed layout which is best suited to you, or work with an architect STORAGE This open plan living space would particularly suit a couple or family STORAGE or homebuilder to customise one of these layouts into an even more LIVING ROOM looking for a flexible, comfortable space of their own. The open LIVING ROOM individual home. Each layout has different advantages, but every layout aids movement around the house, and the bedroom and en- one is designed to be as flexible as possible to adapt to anything life suite here allows for full ground floor living. The upstairs is flexible STUDY / BEDROOM 1 brings your way. STUDY / BEDROOM 1 and has multiple bedrooms for a growing family with changing CLOAKROOM/ needs. FAMILY ROOM / STUDY BATHROOM CLOAKROOM / BATHROOM FAMILY ROOM / STUDY Option 1 W.C. DRESSING ROOM This internal layout would suit a family home, with older children BEDROOM 4 EN-SUITE 4 BEDROOM 4 BEDROOM 5 beginning to need more space and privacy in their day-to-day. This BEDROOM 2 (MASTER) option benefits from a closed-plan living space, centred on the living BEDROOM 2 (MASTER) room. This makes the living room the flexible, social focus of the house, while retaining individual privacy in a separate kitchen and study space. Every room is a good size, and bedrooms have the BEDROOM 3 EN-SUITE 3 EN-SUITE 2 BEDROOM 3 BATHROOM option of en-suite bathrooms, allowing the children to each have 1their own space as they grow older. 2 custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View UTILITY EN SUITE 1 KITCHEN W.C. UTILITY Option 3 Option 4 KITCHEN EN SUITE 1 STORAGE This option would suit a couple or small family with a need for A large family home option, this space benefits from five possible STORAGE flexible spaces. The five bedroom spaces upstairs are all a generous LIVING ROOM bedrooms to accommodate a busy family. This allows every child to LIVING ROOM size, and would make excellent guest rooms for a couple doing have their own, separate rooms, for them to personalise and provide frequent entertaining, or whose children have left home already. It a space away from family life. The large open plan living space could also benefits from a considerable amount of storage space, to store STUDY / BEDROOM 1 easily be divided into multiple spaces for the different activities of a STUDY / BEDROOM 1 their children’s possessions while they move away from home to a busy family, while still keeping family life centred around one spot. FAMILY ROOM / STUDY new job or university. BATHROOM / STORAGE FAMILY ROOM / STUDY CUPBOARD BATHROOM W.C. BEDROOM 5 BEDROOM 2 BEDROOM 6 BEDROOM 2 (MASTER) EN SUITE 2 BEDROOM 3 BEDROOM 3 BEDROOM 4 BEDROOM 5 BATHROOM 3 4 BEDROOM 4 custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View Realising Potential Living in Harmony It can be easy to integrate new technologies with your custom build home. Creating your own home can be your passport to ‘living better’. Whether From your smartphone or tablet you can control your heating, set your you choose to work alongside our recommended homebuilders or decide to oven before you get home, or play music throughout your home. You don’t appoint your own, we will help you realise your dream. need to get a robot butler, but a few small changes can make your life much easier. Family Living Homes of the Future Your build can create a flexible and versatile home, catering for the needs Reducing your carbon footprint can seem difficult, but a custom built of your whole family. By controlling the internal layout, you can shape your home can be kind to you and the environment. You can reduce your energy home to suit you and your family – and even your pets, making sure they feel consumption by utilising the ‘fabric-first approach to design. Increased at home too! insulation, maximised air-tightness, and maximised opportunities for sunlight all result in a home that requires little energy to heat or cool, keeping your bills low and your comfort high. Images credited to Pat Renson Interiors - patrenson.com custombuildhomes.co.uk Castle Hill View BENEFITS OF CUSTOM BUILDING YOUR HOME With custom build you can achieve a home designed specifically for you and your family’s lifestyle. A flexible, quality living space, tailored to suit your requirements now and in the future. Affordability Freedom in retirement Sustainable living It’s possible to enjoy savings of around 10 - 15% on the cost of a If you want to downsize to fund your retirement by cutting Through custom build, you can live in a high-quality home developer new build with custom build.
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