Holmes Cottage

• 2 reception rooms, 3 bedrooms, conservatory, kitchen, bathroom, shower room, utility room and office.
• Excellent hard standing and storage area.
• Large general purpose shed.
• Easy access to road links.
• Extensive garden grounds with grazing paddock.

Holmes Cottage is a most attractive dwelling with a substantial enclosed compound with tarmacadam yard and secure portal frame shed. It is located with good access from the A71 trunk road between Galston and Kilmarnock and easily accessible to Glasgow via the M77. There are excellent transport links in the area with a regular train service to Glasgow from Kilmarnock whilst Prestwick Airport (12 miles) has regular scheduled international flights.Galston has both primary and secondary schooling and a popular leisure centre. Private schooling is available at Wellington in Ayr and Belmont, Newton Mearns (14 miles). Kilmarnock is 3 miles distant and has a wider range of amenities including restaurants, theatre, hospital, cinema and sports complex.Ayrshire is renowned for its many golf courses including the world famous courses at Turnberry, Prestwick and Troon. The privately owned Loudon Gowf Club is about 7 miles distant at Newmilns. There are excellent yachting facilities at the marinas at Troon, Ardrossan, Largs and Inverkip and there are also many opportunities for game sports in the region with some of south west Scotland’s best salmon and trout fishing available in the area’s lochs and rivers.Built of stone under a pitched slate roof with a single storey extension to the rear, Holmes Cottage is a well-appointed house offering excellent family accommodation over one and a half storeys with a large, well screened garden with ample parking. There is an excellent secure compound with modern portal frame shed ideal for operating a commercial business or workshop.The delightful family home retains many original period fixtures including deep skirting, attractive architrave, panelled doors, cornicing and ceiling roses. The welcoming hallway provides access to a beautifully presented sitting room with attractive cast iron fireplace, gas fire set in a wooden surround and tiled hearth overlooking the front grazing paddock. There is a large downstairs bedroom also overlooking the front driveway and paddock. The kitchen has been fitted with a range of floor and wall mounted units, a central island/breakfast bar with cabinets and wine storage below, a striking red New World dual fuel range style cooker, American style fridge/freezer and dishwasher also in red. The kitchen opens to a most attractive south facing conservatory with wall mounted electric fire and doors to the patio. The living room has laminate flooring, wood burning stove, tiled hearth and dual aspect windows. From the living room there is a shower room and utility room with 2 washing machines, a drier and fridge and a most useful home office. An impressive wooden staircase rises from the hall to the first floor with two generously proportioned bedrooms with large storage cupboards and the family bathroom fitted with bath, shower over and screen, w.c. and wash hand basin set in vanity unit. Adjoining the house to the rear, is a woodstore of tin and brick construction (About 4.55m x 3.91m)GARDEN (AND GROUNDS)Attractive conifers line the sweep of the tarmacadam drive to the gravel shipped parking area to the front of the house with parking for several cars. There are two small fenced paddocks to the front and side of the house. The drive to the yard continues past the cottage to a large area of hard standing/vehicular parking.General Purpose Shed (About 11.83m x 10m)Steel clad portal frame, tin clad and roof, block walls, concrete floor and lockable shutter doors with water, power and light.Office (About 5.9m x 5.9m)Brick with corrugated roof.Redundant Tin Shed (About 3.65m x 3m)FLOOD RISKFlood maps of the area can be viewed at https://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmaps/FloodRisk/SearchDIRECTIONSFrom Glasgow take the M77 towards Kilmarnock. At Junction 6 (signposted Galston A77) slip left. Follow signs for Galston then turn left on to the A719. Drive through Waterside and Moscow then turn right at the Galston roundabout heading for Kilmarnock. Holmes Cottage is on the right after about 1 mile.From Ayr take the A77 north towards Kilmarnock. At the Bellfield roundabout take the third exit signed Hurlford/Galston. Drive through Hurlford and Holmes Cottage is on the left hand side of the road after about 1.5 miles.POST CODEKA1 5JDWHAT3WORDSTo find this property location to within 3 metres, download and use What3Words and enter the following 3 words: ///text.before.baseballsSOLICITORSDales Solicitors, 18 Wallace Street, Galston, East Ayrshire, KA4 8HPLOCAL AUTHORITYEast Ayrshire Council, Council Headquarters, London Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 7BU,Tel: 01563 376000FIXTURES AND FITTINGSNo items are included unless specifically mentioned in these particulars. Please note the curtains and light fitting in the sitting room are excluded from the sale.HEALTH & SAFETYAppropriate caution should be exercised at all times during inspection particularly in reference to any livestock present and working machinery and equipment on the property.VIEWINGSStrictly by appointment with the Selling Agents.ANTI MONEY LAUNDERING (AML) REGULATIONSPlease note that under the 2017 AML regulations we are legally required to carry out money laundering checks against purchasers. Upon verbal acceptance of an offer, we require to identify the purchaser for Anti-Money Laundering purposes. Our service provider ‘First AML’ will contactthe purchaser to gather the required identification documents. An information sheet is available from the selling agent on request. We are not able to enter a business relationship with a purchaser until they have been identified.Failure to provide required identification may result in an offer not being considered.