CARRIDEN HOUSE Bo'ness, A beautifully situated farming estate with great sporting and amenity appeal, featuring a delightful primary residence and five additional cottages, all set within a 532 acre estate. CARRIDEN HOUSE BO'NESS • WEST LOTHIAN • EH51 9SN Historic country house with stunning setting above Firth of Forth

6 Reception Rooms, 2 Kitchens, 14 Bedrooms, 11 Bathrooms, Offices and Stores

Established Gardens with Extensive Lawns

Woodland Walks

About 18 acres in all

Currently used as home, 3 Star Guest House and Offices

Sturrock Armstrong & Thomson Savills 7a Dundas Street 8 Wemyss Place EDINBURGH EH3 6QG Edinburgh EH3 6DH 0131 556 0159 0131 247 3700 [email protected] [email protected] www.satsolicitors.co.uk savills.co.uk

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SITUATION HISTORY

Carriden House has a spectacular situation above the Firth of Forth with far reaching views both The original tower house was constructed by John Hamilton of Letterick in 1602, although there is north over the Forth to and also east over open countryside to Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. evidence that the site was already inhabited and earlier fabric may have been incorporated into this building. The house is contained within the site of a Roman fort which formed part of the Antonine The house is set in 18 acres of its own grounds at the end of a long drive from the conservation Wall. It is possible that the site has been continuously occupied from that time. village of Muirhouses, to the east of Bo’ness. Its grounds include the Shore Woods which adjoin the John Muir Way which runs along the edge of the Firth of Forth. In the late 17th century the house was sold to the celebrated Mylne family of master masons and Alexander Mylne was responsible for building the west wing and other work. The estate changed The house is very well situated for access to , Edinburgh city centre and for the ownership many times in the 18th century and landscaping work was carried out circa 1750. A motorway network, which means all the cities of Central including , Stirling and large amount of soil was added around the house as part of the landscaping. Perth are within easy reach. Edinburgh airport is only 12 miles away and can be reached by motorway and dual carriageway. and the city centre are just beyond the Admiral Sir George Johnstone Hope bought the house in 1814 and the property passed to his airport. son, Admiral Sir James Hope in 1829. Sir James was responsible for many changes to the house, including the castellated porch. He also created the nearby model village of Muirhouses to house Linlithgow and Falkirk have railway stations with frequent services to both Edinburgh and Glasgow. the estate workers. Again, from the late 19th century the estate changed hands several times until Edinburgh airport provides regular services to all London airports as well as a wide range of being purchased by the South of Scotland Electricity Board in the 1960/70s with a view to domestic and international destinations, including direct flights to North America and the Gulf demolishing the buildings and constructing a power station. This did not take place and the house States. fell into disrepair during this time until it was bought and restored as a family home in the late 1970s. 4

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Workshop Laundry 6.80 x 1.80 3.80 x 1.80 22'4'' x 5'11'' 12'6'' x 5'11'' Boiler Room 3.20 x 3.00

Wine Cellar 10'6'' x 9'10'' 5.00 x 3.60 Office 16'5'' x 11'10'' 4.40 x 4.30 14'5'' x 14'1'' Carriden House,

Bo'ness, West Lothian, EH51 9SN

Covered Outside Cloakroom Courtyard Gross internal area (approx) Study 6.20 x 3.80 Former Kitchen 1304.45 sq.m (14041 sq.ft) 20'4'' x 12'6''

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Store 8.80 x 5.40 28'10'' x 17'9''

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South Hall u b i t s e V Serving Kitchen 6.60 x 2.30 21'8'' x 7'7''

Family Kitchen 6.00 x 5.30 19'8'' x 17'5''

Staff Room Ironing 3.80 x 3.40 Room 12'6'' x 11'2''

Family Room WC 12.40 x 5.40 Storage 40'7'' x 17'9'' Drawing Room 13.60 x 5.40 44'7'' x 17'9''

Breakfast Room

6.20 x 5.60 20'4'' x 18'4'' North Dining Study Room West 3.60 x 3.10 6.70 x 6.30 Hall 11'10'' x 10'2'' 22'0'' x 20'8''

LowerLow Grounder G rFlooround Floor North Terrace Conservatory South Terrace 4.09 x 3.33 13'5'' x 10'11''

GGroundrou nFloord Floor 8 Dressing Ensuite Area Bedroom 8 Bathroom 5.70 x 4.50 18'8'' x 14'9''

Bedroom 9 5.70 x 3.90 18'8'' x 12'10'' Hall

Bedroom 7 4.60 x 4.00 Bedroom 6 Ensuite 15'1'' x 13'1'' 3.30 x 1.90 Bathroom Shower 10'10'' x 6'3'' Bedroom 12 Room 5.70 x 3.80 18'9'' x 12'6'' Bedroom 11 5.30 x 4.30 17'5'' x 14'1'' Ensuite Shower Room

Bedroom 13 Hall 4.30 x 1.90 14'1'' x 6'3'' Bedroom 14 3.90 x 2.70 12'10'' x 8'10'' Bedroom 1 Bedroom 5 5.70 x 5.40 6.00 x 4.00 18'8'' x 17'9'' 19'8'' x 13'1''

Dumb Bathroom Waiter Ensuite Bathroom

Ensuite Ensuite Bathroom Bathroom

SecondSeco Floornd Floor

Bedroom 4 Bathroom Bedroom 3 6.60 x 3.60 6.70 x 4.00 Bathroom 2 22' x 13'1'' 21'8'' x 11'10'' 5.70 x 5.40 18'8'' x 17'9''

Ensuite Bathroom Bedroom 10 CARRIDEN HOUSE 3.10 x 2.90 10'2'' x 9'6'' Bo’ness West Lothian FirstFi Floorrst Floor Gross Internal Area (approx) 1,304.45 q.m (14,041 sq ft)

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DESCRIPTION

Carriden House is a notable property with an imposing front façade comprising a tower with pepperpot turrets, an impressive castellated entrance and a symmetrical west wing with a central pediment.

The property has a different appearance from the east, where the origins of the original tower house can be clearly seen. There is a raised terrace to the west with a conservatory giving access to the west hall.

Internally there are impressive rooms on the principal floor including the study with its fine late 17th century plaster ceiling, the drawing room with four south facing windows and two large dining rooms.

The house has a flexible layout with separate entrance halls to the south and west which have enabled the different parts to be used as a home and a guest house. There are 14 bedrooms in all with 11 bath or shower rooms, served by three separate stairways. The five bedrooms in the west wing have been used as a guest house along with the north dining room.

The lower ground floor comprises vaulted rooms and offices and part of it has been used as offices by the present owners. The family kitchen and living room are also on this floor with a courtyard outside. DESCRIPTION

From a raised terrace to the west of the house double doors open into a conservatory with northerly views over the Firth of Forth. It has shelving to display plants. Glazed double doors open into the west hall with magnificent arched doorways to the rooms on either side and an arched inner door with stained glass window above. The drawing room is a magnificent room with four south facing windows. It boasts decorative plasterwork and a marble fireplace. Built in book shelves incorporate a concealed door to the hall behind. On the opposite side of the west hall, the north dining room has two angled bay windows looking out to the Firth of Forth. This dining room has been used to serve the guest bedrooms above.

Accessed by a discreet side door from the west hall are a store room, a staff room and ironing room with wash basin and separate WC. Double doors from the west hall open to a stairway hall with the main stairs to the first floor and steps down to the lower ground floor. Beyond the stairway hall is a serving kitchen with fitted floor cupboards incorporating a stainless steel double sink unit. Appliances include a gas cooker with extractor fan above and a wall oven.

The east dining room can be accessed directly from the serving kitchen and from a passageway off the south hall. Spiral stairs lead from this passageway to the lower ground and upper floors. The dining room has fine ceiling plasterwork. The early 20th century timber fireplace with its cast iron grate and the timber panelling are attributed to Matthew Steele. The passageway leads into the south hall with stairs up to the first floor and half glazed inner doors and outer storm doors to the south entrance porch. Off this hall is the study, a beautiful room with a fine late 17th century plaster ceiling depicting deeply undercut fruit with a flower wreath at and foliate designs. It has a marble fireplace and a bay window with views to the Forth Bridges and Arthur’s Seat. Also off the south hall are a WC and a cloakroom with twin wash basins, WC and fitted cupboards.

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First Floor To the east of the house is a raised gravel terrace. There is a flat lawn below, flanked by trees and From the west hall stairs lead up to a galleried landing on the first floor. There are five guest enjoying magnificent views to the east towards Edinburgh. There are a number of garden stores to bedrooms on this level. Each has an en suite bathroom. The family bedrooms, three doubles and the side. one single, are accessed by stairs from the south hall and by spiral stairs from the kitchen. There is also a connecting door to the guest wing landing. Two of these four bedrooms have en suite There are further lawns and mature trees adjacent to the drive. In the corner is an enclosed shower rooms and the others are served by an interconnecting bathroom. The master bedroom vegetable garden with hedges around and a combination of vegetable beds and fruit trees. There has a dressing area. Bedroom 7 has a glazed door to the battlemented flat roof over the south is an ancient graveyard with cast iron fencing around. entrance porch. Woodland Second Floor Below the gardens are the Shore Woods. A sloping wooded bank runs down to a stone wall Spiral stairs from the family wing lead to the second floor via a half landing off which is a bedroom. above the shores of the Firth of Forth. This area comprises mainly broadleaved trees with a There are four further bedrooms on this floor, two of which have corner turrets. One bedroom has number of clearings and streams running through. The Carriden Burn forms the west boundary an en suite shower room and the others are served by two bathrooms. A door from an inner hall and there is a spectacular waterfall. gives access to stairs to the roof and to a tower with battlements above. A circuit of core paths through the woodland is maintained by Falkirk Council by permission of Lower Ground Floor Carriden House. These paths link with the John Muir Way which runs from Helensburgh to Dunbar The south east section of the lower ground floor has been used as offices with approval by Falkirk and includes a section along the edge of the Firth of Forth. Council. It has its own outside door in the south east corner. There are two offices, a boiler room housing a Kidd oil fired boiler and the hot water cylinder, a flagstone floored wine cellar with 24 There is an ice house in the woods immediately below the garden. The stone frontage was original wine bins. The vaulted former kitchen with stone shelving is used as a store room and renovated recently. there is also a cleaner’s cupboard with sink.

The domestic part of the lower ground floor includes a family room with an exposed stone gable wall and a panelled inner wall with a fireplace and built in cupboards. There is also a study with a fireplace and a half glazed door to a breakfast room with a wood panelled ceiling and a stone fireplace and a mezzanine landing. The wooden floored family kitchen has a four oven LPG fired Aga and free standing cupboards. Off a side corridor are two WCs and a room with electric control panels. Courtyard A wash room off the kitchen leads to a fully enclosed courtyard via an canopied verandah with flagstone flooring and a door to the gardens. Off the courtyard are a workshop with flagstone flooring and a laundry. GARDENS AND GROUNDS

Carriden House is set in some 18 acres of grounds and well established gardens with extensive lawns and magnificent mature trees.

The house is approached from the south by a driveway lined by trees and banks of rhododendrons. This leads to a parking area in front of the house. There is a large lawn to the west with some fine mature trees at the end. This is enclosed by a high wooden fence and by hedging. There are steps down to a tunnel leading to the woodland below.

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GENERAL REMARKS

Services Offers Mains water and electricity. Private drainage to septic tank. Central heating from oil fired boiler. . Offers, in Scottish legal form, must be submitted by your solicitor to the Selling Agents. Hot water from both boiler and LPG fired Aga. It is intended to set a closing date but the seller reserves the right to negotiate a sale with a single Listing party. All genuinely interested parties are advised to instruct their solicitor to note their interest • Carriden House is listed Category A. The Ice House is listed category C(S). with the Selling Agents immediately after inspection. • The property is within the Antonine Wall World Heritage Site. • Carriden Burial Ground and some of the gardens are a scheduled monument. Deposit A deposit of 10% of the purchase price may be required. It will be paid within 7 days of the Local Authority conclusion of Missives. The deposit will be non-returnable in the event of the Purchaser(s) failing • Carriden House is in Falkirk Council tax band H. to complete the sale for reasons not attributable to the Seller or his agents • The Guest House element of the house has a rateable value of £2,100. viewing Guest House Business Strictly by appointment with Savills Edinburgh 0131 247 3700. The five bedrooms in the west wing and the north dining room are used as a 3 star guest house. If there is any point which is of particular importance to you, we invite you to discuss this with us, The web site is: www.carridenhouse.co.uk. especially before you travel to view the property. Fixtures and Fittings important notice The fixtures and fittings are included in the sale. Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that:

Public Access 1. They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the The paths through the Shore Woods are maintained as Core Paths by Falkirk Council by property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or permission of Carriden House. They adjoin the John Muir Way. otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied Local Development upon as statements or representations of fact. Carriden Steading has planning permission to be redeveloped. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are Access Road for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not Carriden House has a servitude right of access over the driveway from the West Lodge. tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection Servitude rights, burdens and wayleaves or otherwise. The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all servitude rights, burdens, reservations and wayleaves, including rights of access and rights of way, whether public or private, light, support, drainage, water and wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cable, drains and water, gas and other pipes, whether contained in the Title Deeds or informally constituted and whether referred to in the General Remarks and Stipulations or not. The Purchaser(s) will be held to have satisfied himself as to the nature of all such servitude rights and others.

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