7 bedroom detached house

Hall • 4 reception rooms • 7 bedrooms • 6 bath/shower rooms (4 en suite) • kitchen/breakfast room • home office and wc • utility room • downstairs wc • 6,726 sq ft

Includes self-contained one bedroom annex

Beautiful garden • courtyard • integral double garage • EPC F

In all about 1.25 acres

The Glebe is a traditional, red sandstone former manse situated in a private setting on the outskirts of Penpont. It dates from around 1844 with “Georgian” and Victorian additions. In recent years, the house has undergone a significant programme of modernisation and refurbishment, with works completed to a high standard. It has been fully reroofed, rewired throughout, re-plumbed, and a modern heating system installed. It is an exceptional family house. The rooms are beautifully proportioned, and there are some wonderful period features, including cast fireplaces, ceiling roses, deep cornices, and picture rails. Both the reception rooms and bedrooms (all served by modern bathrooms) are of note and make the most of the views and the surrounding countryside. Around the enclosed courtyard, the self-contained annex (with its own entrance) and home office add further flexibility and dimension to the house. (See floor plans for room layout and dimensions.)

The Glebe is approached through wrought iron gates and along a private drive, which leads to the gravelled parking and turning area to the side of the house. The driveway leads around the back of the house to the double garage and outbuildings. The driveway is lined by trees, including cherry and beech trees, and has been kerbed and floodlit. The enclosed principal garden is situated to the west of the property with a lawn as its focus, gravel paths, running water and decking with views over the Scaur Water, and a sunken circular sitooterie.

Garden doors provide a connection from the house to the garden, making it ideal for outside entertaining. Screened from the main garden is the partly walled kitchen garden with raised beds, tool sheds, and two greenhouses. There is access from the garden down to the Scaur Water.

The Glebe is located amongst some of the most attractive countryside the County of Dumfriesshire has to offer, between Scaur Water and the Nith Valleys. Penpont has a local shop, a garage, and primary school. Thornhill provides good local services, including schooling and a wide variety of retail outlets, clothes boutiques, banks, cafes, pubs, food stores, and a pharmacy. The village is on several bus routes with services to Ayr, Dumfries, Glasgow and Edinburgh. A key attraction of the village to residents is the custom-built Wallace Hall Academy state primary and secondary school. Featuring state-of-the-art educational, sporting, and community leisure facilities, the school is ranked one of the best state schools in southern Scotland. The Royal Burgh of Dumfries is historically famous as the town where Robert Burns spent his years prior to his death in 1796. As a county town, Dumfries is now an important centre of commerce serving south-west Scotland and has a good range of shops, supermarkets, and professional services. It also features a college of higher education and a general hospital. Trains from Dumfries connect to Carlisle, giving ready access to London (four hours) and Glasgow (one hour).

The Glebe lies close to the Queensbury Estate, which is one of the largest privately owned estates in the country. At its centre Drumlanrig Castle houses part of the internationally renowned Buccleuch Art Collection and is home to the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury. The Glebe is an ideal base for those who enjoy outdoor activities such as fishing, game shooting (both available locally), walking, cycling, golf, mountain biking, and riding. Dumfriesshire is a county of contrasting landscapes ranging from the dramatic high tops of the Southern Upland hills to the sandy coastline of the Solway Firth

Thornhill 2 miles, Dumfries 15 miles, Glasgow 63 miles, Edinburgh 67 miles, Carlisle 50 miles (distances approximate)

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