SAUCHIE HOME FARM S T I R L I N G

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3 SAUCHIE HOME FARM STIRLING FK7 9QJ Stirling 5 miles, Glasgow 26 miles, Edinburgh 36 miles Fully modernised farmhouse with cottage and extensive outbuildings set in about 70 acres Kitchen / Family Room, Dining Room, Sitting Room, Study, Utility Room, Boot Room, WC 4 Bedrooms (2 with En Suites), Family Bathroom 2 Bed Cottage, Home Office, Workshop, Boiler House, 2 Barns, 2 Stores Gardens, Grounds and Woodland, 5 Fields About 70 Acres In All EPC Rating = E Selling Agents: Savills, Wemyss House, 8 Wemyss Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6DH Tel: Fax: edinburghresi@savills.com

4 DIRECTIONS Take the M9 from Edinburgh or the M80 from Glasgow towards Stirling. Leave the motorway at Junction 9 signposted for Stirling Services. From the roundabout at Stirling Services head north on the A872 signposted for Whins of Milton. Turn first left after about 50 yards at the Pirnhall Inn and then left again at the T-junction. Follow this minor road for about 1.2 miles before turning right after a pair of semi detached cottages onto a private road sign posted Barns Knowe and Sauchie Home Farm. Take the left fork in the road and continue up the hill along this track. The drive to the property is on the right and clearly signposted. SITUATION Sauchie Home Farm combines a most attractive period farmhouse and outbuildings arranged around a traditional courtyard. Skilfully and sensitively refurbished and updated over the last decade, the farmhouse is now a fine family home, with options for further development. The 70 acres of gardens, grounds and fields form a scenic setting which also represents a manageable small farm with exciting potential for a smallholding. Meanwhile, the outbuildings also offer an opportunity to develop additional cottages for holiday rentals or longer term residential lets. As such, Sauchie Home Farm is a property that will appeal to those seeking a change of lifestyle, perhaps to achieve a degree of self sufficiency, and yet is close to Scotland s main cities and just a few miles from the major town of Stirling. The house dates back to about 1780 and the frontage was modified about 100 years later to make a very bright interior. It sits in about 70 acres of its own grounds within the picturesque Stirling countryside. The property is surrounded by deciduous and coniferous woodland with excellent walking from the house. Despite its charming rural setting the house is extremely accessible for the rest of central Scotland due to its close proximity to the motorway and railway networks. The property is only 3 miles from Stirling Services junction where there are motorway connections to Glasgow on the M80 and Edinburgh on the M9. Both Edinburgh and Glasgow airports are within easy reach and Stirling has a railway station (about 5.5 miles) with services to both cities. Stirling, just to the north, is the major town of central Scotland. Stirling Castle and the Wallace Monument rise high above the town and are testament to its historic past. The modern day town provides a full range of shops and services including several superstores and a branch of Waitrose. There are a number of private schools within reach including Beaconhurst, Dollar Academy, Strathallan and Kilgraston (girls only).

5 Sauchie Home Farm Gross Internal Area (approx) sq.m (3,142 sq.ft) Outbuilding Gross Internal Area (approx) 1, sq.m (11,353 sq.ft) (including boiler room & workshop) For Identification Only. Not To Scale.

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7 The M9 and A9 continue north into Perthshire. The internationally renowned Gleneagles Hotel with its leisure club and golf courses is only 24 miles away. The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park also lies just to the west with its wealth of outdoor activities including climbing, hill walking, water sports, fishing, shooting and stalking. ACCOMMODATION Sauchie Home Farm is a superb traditional style farmhouse which has been extensively renovated and extended over the past 11 years. The accommodation offers exceptionally well presented living space which is perfectly balanced for modern day family requirements. It has appealing open plan living space and retains a wealth of character features throughout. Notable additions include a superb new sitting room in the west wing, en suite bathrooms, the home office, a separate cottage and a wood pellet boiler to provide efficient central heating. There is also existing planning permission to extend the ground floor further. The kitchen / family room sits off the flagstoned entrance hall and has superb south facing views over the front garden as well as windows to the east and over the rear courtyard. The kitchen area has a range of units, a shelved pantry, fitted appliances and an integrated Belfast sink. In the family area end there is a log burning stove. From the entrance hall double doors open up into the dining room which again has superb south facing views. It also has fitted book shelves and a log burning stove set into an exposed stone surround. A door leads through to the impressive sitting room which was added to the house in This has doors leading out into the south facing garden, decked terrace and the rear courtyard. There are overhead Velux windows and a log burning stove. Also situated off the dining room is a study overlooking the courtyard. It is fitted with bookshelves, cupboards and a large desk. From the entrance hall a rear corridor leads past the door to the kitchen to a WC, a cloak area with fitted Belfast sink and the utility room. The utility room is fitted with storage cupboards and plumbed for a washing machine and tumble dryer. From the cloak area a door leads into the rear extension which is a spacious boot room leading out into the courtyard. The first floor is approached by a staircase leading up from the entrance hall. Situated off the landing there are four double bedrooms. Three of these are south facing with views over the garden and countryside beyond. The master bedroom has a separate dressing room and an en suite shower room with WC, twin wash hand basins and a double sized shower cubicle. There is a further north facing double bedroom overlooking the courtyard with an en suite shower room. The family bathroom also sits of the landing and is fitted with a WC, wash hand basin, bath and separate shower cubicle.

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10 Bedroom x '1'' x 9'2'' Bedroom x '1'' x 9'4'' Sitting Room/ Kitchen 7.30 x '11'' x 18'10'' Annexe Gross Internal Area (approx) sq.m (1,727 sq.ft) Shower Room Hall WC Office x '5'' x 18'10''

11 HOME OFFICE There is a superb home office with separate WC which sits on the west aspect of the courtyard. It has floor to ceiling windows with wonderful views over the west garden as well as windows onto the courtyard. It offers excellent work space with a gallery overhead (accessed by external stone stairs), a full height ceiling with Velux windows, a log burning stove and a large store. COTTAGE The cottage is accessed from the courtyard but also has an entrance from the home office. It has an open plan kitchen / sitting room with doors leading out into the west garden. The kitchen area is fitted with a range of units and fitted appliances. Beyond this there are two bedrooms and a shower room.

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13 OUTBUILDINGS Other outbuildings set around the courtyard include a large workshop, boiler house and two large barns. The workshop sits to the north of the courtyard and is fitted with extensive shelving and work benches with double doors opening up into the boiler house. This is home to the wood pellet boiler. From the boiler room double doors open up into the north barn. This provides extensive outdoor storage space with corrugated iron roof and concrete block walls. There are double tractor doors which open up to the rear. The east barn is accessed from the east side of the property and from the courtyard. This is currently used as a garage / tractor shed and at the end there is a separate lockable store room. To the east of the house there is a large polytunnel, potting shed and fenced hen run with hen house. At the end of the eastern range of outbuildings there is a feed store and above approached by external stone stairs is the old hayloft which currently houses water tanks. To the north of the barns is an open steel shed providing more storage space and easily adaptable for stabling. GARDENS AND GROUNDS The private road leads up to the drive to Sauchie Home Farm. This sweeps alongside the front garden and up to a dedicated parking area in front of the house. To the rear of the house there is an extensive range of outbuildings set around a beautiful courtyard with flower bed roundel in the centre. The gardens and grounds surrounding Sauchie Home Farm extend to about 10 acres and are wonderfully private and beautifully landscaped with an extensive variety of mature broadleaf and coniferous trees, young fruit trees, shrubs, plants and water features. The principal gardens are to the front of the house and are south facing. There are further gardens to the east and west of the courtyard. There is a burn which separates the parking area and the main house leading from a pond. This sits in the heart of the main garden and is overlooked by the sitting room. The northernmost field is bounded on two sides by mature woodland through which the Sauchie Burn runs. There are two large owl lofts within the grounds surrounding the house. GRAZING Sauchie Home Farm has five fields in total which extend to about 60 acres in all. Three of the fields sit to the east and north of the house. The largest field to the north is about 21 acres in size and is separated from the two smaller ones to the south by an area of woodland with the Sauchie Burn passing through. The two other fields are to the west of the house and combined they extend to about 23 acres in size.

14 GENERAL REMARKS SERVICES Private water supply via well. Mains electricity. Central heating provided by wood pellet boiler. Drainage to septic tanks (separate ones for main house and cottage). ACCESS The owners of Sauchie Home Farm have a right of access over the private road. They are responsible for one third of the maintenance costs of the section of the road leading from the end of their drive to the fork. LOCAL AUTHORITY Sauchie Home Farm is in Council Tax Band G. FIXTURES AND FITTINGS All fitted carpets, curtains, blinds, light fittings and integrated white goods are included in the sale. PHOTOGRAPHS The photographs were taken in June and July BIOMASS HEATING SYSTEM A wood pellet biomass heating boiler was installed in December 2015 at a cost of 22,598. This was funded by a loan financed by an RHI grant of per annum running for seven years. The buyer is required to take over the loan and grant. OTHERS There is a historic right for the drive to Sauchie Home Farm to be used for the purpose of timber extraction. However, the surrounding woodland now has a purpose built road constructed in 2015 for the purpose of timber extraction. FARM LOCATION CODE The Farm Location Code for Sauchie Home Farm is 807/0111. PLANNING PERMISSION - REF: 08/00859/FUL This planning consent still allows for the addition of a kitchen / dining room to the east of the main house (similar in style to the current sitting room). It also allows for the conversion of the north and east range of outbuildings into a pair of four bedroom cottages and one two bedroom cottage and three garages. The exiting cottage / home office is auxiliary accommodation however there is planning approval to change its use to a separate dwelling. SECTION 75 AGREEMENT There is a Section 75 agreement over the three proposed cottages mentioned above. COMPLETION CERTIFICATE The sellers are waiting to receive the completion certificate for the new en suite bathroom. SERVITUDE RIGHTS, BURDENS AND WAYLEAVES 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. OFFERS Offers, in Scottish legal form, must be submitted by your solicitor to the Selling Agents. It is intended to set a closing date but the seller reserves the right to negotiate a sale with a single party. All genuinely interested parties are advised to instruct their solicitor to note their interest with the Selling Agents immediately after inspection. DEPOSIT A deposit of 10% of the purchase price may be required. It will be paid within 7 days of the conclusion of Missives. The deposit will be non-returnable in the event of the Purchaser(s) failing to complete the sale for reasons not attributable to the Seller or his agents. VIEWING Strictly by appointment with Savills IMPORTANT NOTICE Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1. They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or 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 upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are 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 tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. Brochure prepared July /07/26 HM.

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