In a private, convenient rural location, a charming country cottage with useful outbuildings and far reaching south westerly aspects.
Description
Harrowhill Cottage is a completely charming, detached country cottage which is situated at the end of a private driveway in delightful rolling East Ayrshire countryside. The house is of white painted stone exterior finish with contrasting salmon pink painted detail to smooth ashlar at windows and doors. The house is under a slated roof, the rear of which features a dormer conversion. The accommodation, which is all freshly presented in pleasant neutral tones, is laid out over two light and bright and easily managed levels. Over the years Harrowhill Cottage has been subject to a rolling programme of professional maintenance and care.
Externally, a stone built barn provides garaging, workshop and general purpose stores. With the appropriate planning permissions, consents and warrants, it could lend itself possible to conversion, providing extended family living space or income producing self catering holiday letting. A larch clad structure in the rear gardens offers flexible uses as home office/crafts studio/hobbies space.
Ground Floor
Outside door at courtyard to entrance reception hallway, double fronted stores with electrical switchgear, drawing room with focal point feature mahogany fireplace with raised mantle with marble slips and hearth and featuring a warming Clearview multi fuel burner inset. Ground floor bathroom with feature traditional plumb ware, tiling to dado height. Formal dining room with hardwood floor and traditional radiator covers, twin leaf bevel glass doors leading to fine year-round use garden room with hardwood floor, twin leaf doors to gardens and terrace, white painted stone wall. Well fitted kitchen with extensive fitted and integrated units, off peak electrically powered 2 door Aga range cooker with 2 plate induction companion, breakfast room or TV den, half glazed door to utility room, access to small attic and door to front gardens.
First Floor
Mahogany turned staircase with wood turned banister and fluted spindles to upper hallway with access hatches to eaves space. Bedroom 1 with velux windows and mirrored wardrobes to one wall, bedroom 2 with fitted wardrobe and dormer window to rear, bedroom 3 with fitted wardrobe and dormer window to rear, traditional radiator cover with shelving, first floor bathroom with twin leaf doors to linen store. Bedroom 4 with velux window to front, dormer to rear and gable window, mirrored fitted wardrobes.
Outbuildings
Detached stone built barn under a corrugated sheet roof and offering garage with remotely operated up and over roller door, generator point, concrete floor, light and power. Larger garage with remotely operated up and over roller door, concrete floor, light and power and personal door access to rear gardens. Workshop/general purpose store with Belfast sink and gardeners wc. Quality steel greenhouse by Robinson with growing and propagation sections, concrete floor, light, power and water supplies. Larch clad detached home office/crafts studio/hobbies space, overhung canopy, light and power.
Gardens
270 metre private driveway, bounded by mixed hedging and post and rylock wire fencing. 5 bar timber county gate to gravel surfaced apron flanked by lawns and mature trees, underplanted with rhododendrons. Block paved courtyard offering vehicular hardstanding between main house and barn. A flagstone pathway leads to a granolithic chip pathway to front gardens and on to raised terrace bounded by a dwarf wall and flower beds. Pleasant Wisteria and a specimen white flowering Clematis adorn the front of the house. An extensive and well-tended lawn is to the front and features specimen trees, shrubs and bushes. Productive fruit trees and bushes are at the bottom of the gardens. Rear gardens are to further lawns fringed with a screen of trees and shrubs. Post and wire fencing at the extreme boundaries. Red stone pathway around the buildings. About 1.267 acres.
Services
Mains water supply via private supply pipe (fitted in 2010), drainage is by private septic tank, oil fired central heating (new boiler 2013) supported by Clearview multifuel burner. Double, single and secondary glazing. Generator point. Solar panels.
Note: The services have not been checked by the selling agents.
Council Tax
Harrowhill Cottage is in Band G and the amount of council tax payable for 2023/2024 is £3,300.35 including water and excluding sewage charges.
EPC rating E
Situation
Harrowhill Cottage has a rural yet highly accessible situation in pastoral East Ayrshire, close by the pretty village of Fenwick. The cottage has a full south westerly exposure and there are far reaching views to the lower reaches of the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Arran, the Carrick Hills and inland to the hills of Dumfries and Galloway.
The centre of Kilmarnock is about 4 miles to the south west and the on and off spurs of the A77/M77 Kilmarnock bypass are only 2 miles distant, making it convenient to travel to Glasgow as well as the developing Ayrshire coastline.
Kilmarnock town has an extensive range of shopping and retail facilities, professional services, primary and secondary schooling, bus and mainline railway stations. There are also schools in Fenwick and Galston.
The A77/M77 also provides easy access to Prestwick airport (12.5 miles) and Glasgow airport (21 miles).
The ferry terminal at Stranraer (56 miles) provides access to Ireland.
Ayrshire is renowned worldwide for golf with regular open championship venues including Royal Troon, Turnberry and the highly regarded Prestwick all within easy reach.
Along with farming and golf, the county is known for its excellent salmon fishing on the rivers Ayr, Doon, Girvan and Stinchar, all of which are within a short drive. Game shooting is also popular within the area, and there are a number of commercially run rough and low ground shoots in the district.
For those keen on a punt, Ayr Racecourse, home of the Scottish Grand National, is about 15 miles distant and those interested in equine pursuits, will find recognised livery businesses nearby offering full or part time livery options as well as centres of equitation.
The Firth of Clyde offers marine and chandlery services at Troon, Ardrossan & Largs together with highly scenic coastal sailing.
Travel Directions
Leave Glasgow on the M77 - this becomes the A77 just after Fenwick. Leave the A77 at the Grassyards Interchange. (2nd Kilmarnock exit). Straight across at the top of the slip road following the sign to Moscow. After about 2.2 miles you will see West Raws Farm on the left and East Raws Cottage on the right. Turn LEFT ( jagged tree stump) immediately alongside farm buildings. About 300 yds on single track road - White bungalow on left. Harrowhill Cottage entrance is on the RIGHT - on the bend. House sign in the hedge. Proceed to the end of the drive which terminates at the house.
