St Margaret's

• 3 reception rooms. 5 bedrooms
• Secluded position at heart of village
• Extensive and flexible room layout
• Many fine period features
• Bio-Mass boiler/Solar PV/Solar Water Heating
• Enclosed and well maintained garden grounds
• Scope for development
• Excellent double garage /outbuilding

St. Margaret’s is a magnificent family home located in a secluded position at the heart of the quiet village of Urquhart, about 6 miles east of Elgin, in the county of Moray. Elgin, with its famous 13th Century Cathedral provides an excellent range of amenities including good shopping with various supermarkets and boutiques, a hospital, leisure centre, swimming pool and cinema. The area also offers some fine hotels, restaurants and local attractions. There is a primary school in Lhanbryde (about 2 miles away) which also has a supermarket, Post Office and pub, whilst the house sits in the catchment for Milne’s High School in Fochabers. Private schooling is available at Gordonstoun School, Duffus about 12 miles away. The county of Moray is famous for its mild climate, has a beautiful and varied countryside with a coastline of rich agricultural land, prosperous fishing villages and wide, open beaches. This unspoilt landscape provides a wide range of leisure and sporting opportunities including fishing on the world-famous Rivers Spey and Findhorn, skiing at The Lecht and Cairngorm range, sailing in the Moray Firth and walking. There are many highly regarded golf courses in the area including Elgin Golf Club, Moray Golf Club (Lossiemouth) and the nearby Maverston Golf Course about 2 miles away. Located about 30 minutes’ drive away is the ‘jewel’ of the Moray Coastline, the historic village of Findhorn with its sheltered bay providing excellent water sports and highly regarded inns. Inverness (44 miles) has all the facilities of a modern city including its airport (about 37 miles) which offers regular flights to the south and summer flights to many European destinations. Aberdeen Airport is located some 57 miles to the St Margaret’s is an impressive family home positioned at the heart of the quaint village of Urquhart near Elgin. Likely to date from the late Victorian era, the house is constructed from stone under a slate roof and provides spacious, very well-appointed and flexible accommodation over two storeys. On the ground floor, a vestibule leads to the welcoming reception hall from where stairs lead to the first floor and doors lead to the elegant dual aspect sitting room on the left whilst to the right is the dining room with a deep-set bay window. Also accessed from the main hall is a study which could easily be used as an additional bedroom if required whilst opposite is the fifth bedroom. An inner hall leads to a relatively recently installed shower room and a rear hall / boot room. Completing the ground floor accommodation is the highly impressive kitchen / dining / living room. Accessed externally is a useful utility room / store. On the first floor, a landing leads to a shower room and four generously sized bedrooms. The house has many of the fine period features one would hope to find in a property of this age and character including exposed wooden floors, sash and case windows, attractive fireplaces, corniced ceilings and wooden timber shutters. In particular, the open plan kitchen / dining / living room with a wood burning stove, high quality fittings, granite worktop and French doors to the garden, as well as the elegant sitting and dining rooms are very appealing rooms. The house is heated using a biomass (wood pellet) boiler and has an array of solar PV and solar thermal panels which improve the property’s energy efficiency. Outside, the extensive part enclosed garden is no less impressive than the house. Offering a wealth of amenity space, shelter and privacy from the surrounding properties, the garden includes areas of lawn, a sunken seating area, a delightful pond, various herbaceous borders and a wonderful kitchen garden with several vegetable beds and fruit trees. Located adjacent is a magnificent timber outbuilding which provides excellent storage space including, on the ground floor; a double garage, vegetable store, bio-mass boiler room and hopper store. On the first floor is a wonderful games room / gym / cinema complete with a climbing wall. In addition, a stone and slate built garage is located off the gravelled driveway. The grounds, particularly where directly accessible onto Main Street offer considerable scope for development, with the possibility of creating an additional dwelling on site (subject to obtaining all necessary consents).