Kinellan House

• A beautiful, traditional country house with outstanding amenity grounds and far-reaching views.
• Four Reception Rooms. Six Bedrooms.
• Modernised and in very good order throughout.
• A range of high quality outbuildings.
• Stunning south-easterly views towards the Cairngorms and Monadhliaths.
• Formal gardens and productive kitchen garden.
• Amenity woodland and grazing land.
• Lochan and wetland habitat, host to a wide range of rare native wildlife.
• Within easy reach of Inverness and the west coast.
• Hill loch a short walk from the property.
• About 15.3 hectares (37.8 acres)

Kinellan House is in a beautiful, secluded setting close to Strathpeffer with stunning views over its own grounds to the Cairngorms. Strathpeffer expanded with the arrival of the railway in Victorian times when visitors came to take the famous spa waters. Today the village is popular for its handsome architecture, active community and as a base from which to enjoy the area with its easy access to Inverness and the west and east coasts. There is a small supermarket, highly regarded primary school, restaurant, hotels and a modern doctors’ surgery. The market town of Dingwall is just a ten minute drive away and has a wider range of shops and amenities including a modern secondary school, while Inverness has all the facilities of a modern city including its airport with regular flights to the south and Europe.The surrounding countryside is varied and unspoilt from the Cromarty Firth coastline to the majesty of Ben Wyvis. There are several waymarked walks and cycle trails in the immediate area including around Loch Kinellan which lies just beyond the northern boundary of Kinellan House. However, the property itself offers excellent amenity with the Millenium Wood with a network of paths and the lochan nature reserve with its walks, viewpoints, bird hide and native wildlife.Kinellan House has been in the same family for over 40 years and in that time the house been sensitively modernised and extended and the grounds improved to create an exceptional country home. Its sale offers a rare opportunity to acquire a complete country house package with an impressive, traditional family house of manageable size set in established grounds, with excellent amenity and within easy reach of Inverness and the airport.The ground floor of the house has been reconfigured and now has well laid out family accommodation, suited to modern day living, while the conservatory extension takes advantage of the stunning views and the new porch gives depth to the house. In addition, there is double glazing almost throughout, high levels of insulation and a modern central heating system.The reception hall is welcoming and creates an impressive introduction to the house, while the reception rooms are ideal for family use as well as formal entertaining. The kitchen with Aga is well laid out and leads to the conservatory which opens to beautiful gardens. A main staircase and back stairs lead to the first floor where there is a generous master bedroom with en suite bathroom along with five further bedrooms, two en suite, and two bathrooms.