Detached house for sale in Lanark ML11, 5 Bedroom

Property video: Springhill House is a B listed Georgian mansion house set in spacious grounds with a flexible secondary cottage, a beautifully stocked walled garden, and grazing paddock with lapsed planning consent for a dwelling house.

The main house is traditional Georgian design and construction of rendered walls with sandstone mullions and quoins with distinctive crow stepped gables, all under a pitched slated roof. The house and gardens are presented in good order and complement and enhance the original Georgian architecture.

An outer porch leads to a fine welcoming entrance reception hallway with rear hallway access to a wood panelled cloakroom, shower room and wc.

The drawing room has a bay window and wood burning stove and the formal dining room opposite is richly decorated, also with a feature fireplace.

The sitting room is well finished with book cases and has a cast iron multi-fuel burning stove. A useful study or home office is off the back hall which leads to the kitchen and also provides door access to the rear gardens.

The kitchen is good sized, has ample space for informal dining table and chairs and has an Aga which warms the heart of the house. A second prep kitchen/utility room is at the rear.

The first floor is by an easily gained staircase to a ¾ landing which leads to a family bathroom with traditional furniture.

The full landing is a good size and has a pleasant sitting area overlooking the front gardens. There are 5 well finished bedrooms and a further shower room.

The whole of the first floor benefits from the addition of secondary glazed windows.

Springhill Cottage:
Entrance vestibule, cloak room, entrance reception hallway, dining kitchen, sitting room, bedroom, bathroom, rear hallway to back door, electric storage heating, mains electricity, mains water and mains drainage. Recently double glazed.

The cottage lends itself suitable as a self contained granny, teenagers or relative’s accommodation as well as providing scope as a holiday or prt rental property which would produce some income. Additionally the cottage could be converted to provide a separate business from home premises.

Springhill House is situated in generous country and woodland grounds on the edge of the historical conservation village of Douglas.

In the last 12 years, the village of Douglas has undergone a restoration as part of the Townscape Heritage Initiative. The village has good local shops which provide for everyday shopping requirements, and has a new state of the art primary school and a cottage hospital. A further fuller range of shops, professional and leisure facilities are available from the nearby towns of Lanark and Hamilton, while Glasgow is only 34 miles away - access to the south of which is now much improved with the recently opened M74 – M8 link, access to which is at junction 12 for southbound and 11 for northbound.

Douglas has good access to central Scotland, specifically Prestwick, Glasgow and Edinburgh Airports, while the M74 provides an excellent link to Glasgow and Edinburgh to the north and Carlisle in the South.

Front Garden:
Attractive parkland type gardens at front laid mainly to grass with mature trees providing amenity and interest. A double driveway is of a gravel surface and leads to front and side of property, garages and cottage as well as generous vehicular turning and hard standing areas.

Rear Garden:
Neat sheltered gravel inner courtyard good for summer dining and bbq’s. Steps lead to the walled garden which features neat low dwarf box hedges with symmetrical gravel paths with feature arch with climbing roses and feature centre piece. The paths are flanked by carefully stocked beds and borders which have been strategically planted to ensure year round colour, interest and pleasant summer scents.

Orchard:
Behind the walled garden is a small beech hedged orchard and kitchen garden plus soft fruit garden.

Wood:
There is a further wooded area of mature trees through which paths have been created which provide pleasant amenity and garden walks.

Paddock/Planning Permission:
Currently informally let on a seasonal basis to a neighbouring farmer. The paddock has lapsed outline planning consent to build a single dwelling. Planning Ref: CL/04/0195.

Outbuildings:
Triple garage with WC and 2 outside taps - part of which is currently used as a workshop - utility storage shed and further garden shed.