4 bedroom detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Incredible scenic location.
- Private and secure.
- No external traffic.
- Traditional house.
- Very well presented.
- Superb decking area.
- Panoramic views.
- Rhino Premium 10’ x 10’ greenhouse.
- Detached garage/workshop 12m x 4.5m
- Attached conservatory/office with external access.
Fouledge Cottage enjoys an incredible scenic rural location a short distance to the southwest of Skelfhill Farm - about 8 miles southwest of Hawick. The cottage has a south easterly aspect to the front. With only one entry/exit way to/from Fouledge Cottage this makes the property very secure with no passing traffic.
Despite its peaceful privacy the cottage is within easy reach of the A7, one of the main roads linking Edinburgh with the north of England.
The cottage enjoys some tremendous outlooks to Skelfhill and Holywell Rig and the surrounding countryside offers an excellent range of walks, hill biking and jogging trails as well as other country pursuits. The area is also rich in wildlife and an excellent location for the keen bird watcher.
The total lack of light pollution makes the location excellent for observing the Milky Way, stars and planets.
Hawick is an important Borders town lying on the River Teviot and provides a useful shopping centre along with primary and secondary schools and a wide variety of recreational and sporting facilities. Hawick has good road links with the other principal towns in the Borders and the A7 links Edinburgh with Carlisle.
DESCRIPTION
Fouledge Cottage is a superb traditional cottage which was extended during 2008 and provides well-presented, well proportioned accommodation. The property benefits from an almost due south facing orientation, this means that the property enjoys sunshine all day.
The property benefits from double glazed windows, oil fired central heating with a log burning stove in the sitting room.
The recently refurbished bright kitchen with granite work surface and island is an attractive feature of the property and gives direct access through the double bi-folding doors to the new external decking area with its extensive views over the surrounding countryside.
ACCOMMODATION
Ground Floor:
Spacious entrance porch, hallway, sitting room, dining kitchen with SMEG dishwasher, utility room, bedroom 4, family bathroom (with WC, basin and bath with shower above).
Attached conservatory/office accessed externally currently being used as a second study area but could be re-utilised for many purposes. Electricity, lights and safe.
First Floor:
Two separate staircases to 3 double bedrooms and a shower room (with shower, basin and WC).
GARDEN AND GROUNDS
Fouledge Cottage is set within spacious garden grounds with extensive open views over the surrounding countryside. Laid mainly to grass with a super decking area accessed from the dining kitchen offering enviable views to the south, west and east as well as providing a superb location for alfresco dining or just a sunset drink. The location and decking area provides an incredible location for star gazing.
Rhino Premium 10’ x 10’ greenhouse, designed for this location and bolted on to a solid concrete base.
There is ample car parking/turning area and a large detached garage/workshop (12m x 4.5m) with electricity. External cold water tap. Five external flood and sensor lights.
NB: An adjacent property forms part of a planning application proposal for Teviot Wind Farm Land East Of Priesthaugh - Planning Reference : 22/00871/S36. Further details are available Scottish Border Council planning portal – quoting the aforementioned reference
POST CODE
TD9 0PJ
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