Historic former manse, close to the coast The Old Manse, Kinneff, Inverbervie, Kincardineshire, DD10 0TJ Freehold Porch • entrance vestibule • hallway • sitting room • dining room • garden room • study • breakfasting kitchen • utility room • cloakroom • larder • five bedrooms • bathroom • shower room • dressing room / additional bedroom Attached store • summer house • garden sheds • kennels Lovely gardens Braefoot Cottage with living room • kitchen • 2 bedrooms and bathroom • Further gardens About 1.82 acres EPC rating = D Situation Aberdeen, ‘the Granite City’, The Old Manse is situated in a is only some 23 miles away. It is lovely rural and coastal location a very cosmopolitan city and and is only 8 miles south of has all the amenities expected Stonehaven. With the opening of a major centre with a wide of the Western Peripheral range of shopping, leisure, Route travelling times to entertainment and cultural Aberdeen and the airport have activities, together with been much reduced. extensive business facilities. Primary schooling is available Aberdeen International Airport at Kinneff and in Inverbervie is well served by both domestic which also has local shopping. and international airlines. Lathallan, at Johnshaven, is a There is a good selection of well known local private school, independent schools in the city catering for all age groups. including Robert Gordon’s There is secondary schooling in College, St Margaret’s School Stonehaven which has a wide for Girls, Albyn School and the range of shops, business International School of facilities, a leisure centre and Aberdeen. There are two also a seasonal outdoor universities, Aberdeen swimming pool and putting University and Robert Gordon green. The nearby A92 University. connects Stonehaven with This part of the coastline Montrose. There are railway features rugged rocky stations at Stonehaven and outcrops and cliffs, together Montrose, with services to with sandy bays and beaches, Aberdeen and the south including that at St Cyrus which including a sleeper. is also a nature reserve. There Stonehaven has a delightful are a number of small fishing harbour with many traditional ports and harbours, including pubs and restaurants and still Catterline, Gourdon and retains much historical interest Johnshaven, from which sea and the ruins of Dunottar fishing and sailing can be Castle to the south which is an undertaken. Lobsters and iconic Scottish fortress. crabs are a local delicacy. Catterline and the surrounding being safely returned to area is famous for its artists Charles II and placed in who visit and live locally, Edinburgh Castle. inspired by the beauty and intriguing history of their Description surroundings. The Creel Inn in The Old Manse is a most Catterline is renowned for its attractive and historic house excellent seafood and there are occupying a lovely position good restaurants in Gourdon very close to the coast, yet it is and Johnshaven. Away from also very conveniently located. the coast the range of outdoor The origins of the house are pursuits is impressive. Fishing believed to date to the early can be taken on the North and 1600s, but much of the house South Esks, and on the River that we see today dates from Dee. There are numerous golf 1738, with two later 19th courses including those at century additions. It is a pretty Stonehaven, Montrose and harled house, with a slate roof, Edzell. Inland lie the Grampian and which is U shaped around a mountains which provide some sheltered paved courtyard. of the best hill walking in The house served as a manse eastern Scotland. until 1934, and has been a Locally there are lovely walks family home ever since, and down to the coast, which is just was acquired by the sellers in minutes away. 1996. It is a house that still retains much of its original Historical Note character and features such as The Old Manse at Kinneff panelled doors and cornicings stands next to the old parish in the principal areas, but at the church. Both are steeped in same time it has continued to Scottish history and folklore. In benefit from improvements. 1651, as Cromwell’s army Shortly after they bought the advanced into Scotland the property the current owners Crown Jewels and Honours of refurbished the kitchen. Since Scotland were removed to 2014 the cloakroom, bathroom Dunnottar Castle for safe and shower room, have all also keeping. In September of that been refurbished, including the year the castle was besieged installation of underfloor by Cromwell’s forces, and the heating in the cloakroom and Crown Jewels were smuggled shower room. At the same out by Mrs Grainger, the wife of time the utility room was also the minister of Kinneff, under updated. the noses of Oliver Cromwell’s It is a spacious and well laid besieging forces. She took out house. At ground floor them back to the manse where level a useful porch opens to an she first hid them in the bottom entrance vestibule and onto of an old box bed. They were the hallway. Off this are the later removed to the Kirk where two elegant principal reception they were buried by the pulpit. rooms – the sitting room and They remained there for nine dining room. In addition there years, occasionally being is a cloakroom and a large walk ‘aired’ in the manse, before in pantry. Off the open plan dining kitchen is a study and door to the hallway providing garden room, which looks out an easy link to the kitchen. The to the courtyard, together with cloakroom has a washbasin the utility room. Upstairs are with vanity unit and a WC. Off five principal bedrooms and an inner hallway is a shelved the bathroom and shower larder. Beyond is the kitchen / room. Off one of the bedrooms breakfast room which is a dressing room which has incorporates a fully fitted been used as an additional kitchen with wooden wall and bedroom but could also work floor units with granite as a teenager’s sitting room. worktops and tiled splashbacks As such it is a house that is well with appliances including a De laid out for family living and for Longhi microwave, Creda entertaining, and which is Europa Solar plus double oven partially double glazed. The / grill, Grundig dishwasher, sink house sits well within its own and a four oven oil fired scarlet garden and grounds. Lying to AGA with electric module. In the southeast is the cottage, addition there is a central island known as Braefoot, which was unit / breakfast bar with a formerly let out, and has Hotpoint fridge, and ample planning consent for a space for informal dining. Off replacement house, granted in the kitchen is a study with fitted November 2017. desks and cupboards with Stone gate piers open onto a display units and the garden gravelled drive which leads to room which is a delightful the front of the house, with a seating area, with a tiled floor central turning circle with box and door to the courtyard. The hedges and a sundial. rear vestibule also has a tiled A partially glazed door opens floor, back door and walk in to the porch with part leaded shelved and hanging cupboard windows, two wall lights and an while the utility room has fitted inner door with overlight to the units, sink, Hotpoint washing vestibule, which has coat hooks machine, wall mounted and a mosaic tiled floor. The cupboards, (one housing the hallway has a staircase to the hot water tank), shelves, first floor and an understair clothes pulley and a tiled floor. cupboard. Off the hallway are An elegant staircase with a the principal reception rooms. wooden handrail leads to the The elegant and well first floor landing. Bedroom proportioned sitting room has one has fitted wardrobes. The window shutters, fireplace with partially tiled shower room has wooden mantel with marble a shower cubicle, washbasin surround and hearth which with vanity unit, WC, bidet and incorporates a wood burning two wall lights. Bedroom two stove. The impressive dining has window shutters and a room also has window shutters hatch with attic ladder to the together with five picture roof space. Bedroom three lights, shelved cupboard, also has window shutters, fireplace with wooden mantel together with a picture rail and and which also houses a wood a door to a dressing room, burning stove. It has a further which is currently used as a further bedroom, with window garden shed and wood store. shutters and fitted shelves. To the side is a further area of The partially tiled bathroom garden with a greenhouse. has a bath, corner shower cubicle, washbasin with vanity General Remarks unit, WC and two wall lights. Viewing Off the side landing are Strictly by appointment with bedrooms four and five, both Savills – 01356 628628. with fireplaces, with bedroom four also having a hatch with Distances attic ladder to the roof space. Inverbervie 3 miles The gardens at The Old Stonehaven 8 miles Manse are a delight. The Laurencekirk 12 miles garden in front mainly Montrose 16 miles comprises a lawn, with flower Aberdeen 23 miles and shrub borders and an octagonal summer house. To Directions the side the courtyard is paved If coming from the north on the and is a lovely sheltered seating A90 dual carriageway, just area. Attached to the house is south of Stonehaven take the a former garage, now used as a A92 turning signposted store, and a dog kennel with Montrose and Arbroath. run. Behind the house are Continue for 6 miles and after gravelled seating areas which passing through Roadside of overlook an expansive area of Kinneff take the turning on the lawn. Lying to the south is a left signposted Slains Park and sheltered former vegetable Old Church Kinneff.