Location

Glengyle is most attractively and conveniently situated on Argyll Street, a well known and prestigious residential area in Brechin. It is within walking distance of Maisondieu Primary School, the High School and the town centre which provides a range of shops, banks, business and leisure facilities, including a swimming pool at the new community campus and High School. Private schooling is available at Lathallan (Johnshaven) and at Dundee High School. Both schools run daily bus services from Brechin. The nearby A90 provides fast access to Aberdeen and south to Dundee, which are both easily reached and offer all the services expected of major cities. Dundee has renowned cultural facilities including the V&A museum. There are railway stations at Montrose and Laurencekirk on the east coast mainline with regular services to Aberdeen and the south, including a sleeper to London. Journey times to Aberdeen and its airport have been much reduced by the Western Peripheral Route. Aberdeen Airport provides a range of domestic and European flights and there is a service from Dundee to Heathrow. The cathedral city of Brechin is well placed to take advantage of the many outdoor activities the county of Angus has to offer. There are golf courses at Brechin, Edzell and Montrose, together with the championship course at Carnoustie. There is a bowling green close by. Fishing is available on the nearby South and North Esks. The Angus Glens, which form the foothills of the Grampian mountains, offer some of the best hill walking in eastern Scotland, together with skiing at Glenshee in the winter. There are popular sandy beaches at Lunan Bay and at St Cyrus, which is a nature reserve. From the nearby village of Edzell the scenic Cairn o' Mount route gives access to Deeside.

Description

Glengyle is a most attractive, detached period townhouse, which is believed to date from about 1890 and may be one of the last detached properties on Argyll Street not to have been subdivided. It is a spacious yet manageable house, with accommodation arranged over three floors, and has been in the sellers' family since the mid 1990s. While it could benefit from some modernisation, the property has considerable potential as a magnificent family house, with spacious and well proportioned reception rooms at the front; a useful playroom or office at the back (which has an alternative access door); and bedrooms arranged over two floors. It may also be big enough to create an annexe or for use as a bed and breakfast, subject to the necessary alterations and consents. Stone built with a slate roof, the house sits back from road within its own gardens, and the grounds extend to about 0.45 acres. It retains many period features such as panelled doors, as well as cornices in the vestibule, hallway, principal reception rooms, the first floor bedrooms and landing.

Gate piers lead from Argyll Street to gravelled parking and turning at the front and side of the house. There is also a foot gate with a path that leads directly to the house. A wooden front door, with engraved overlight featuring the name Glengyle, and side lights, opens to an entrance vestibule with a tiled floor and inner door to an imposing hallway with a staircase to the first floor and an understair WC with wash basin. To one side of the hallway is a spacious and double aspect sitting room with ornate cornicing, bay window, high level skirting and a marble fireplace. On the other side is a double aspect dining room, again with high level skirting, together with a picture rail and a fireplace. Behind is the small sitting room. Off an inner hallway is a breakfast room with a cast iron fireplace with mantel, dado rail and a shelved cupboard. The breakfast room links to a kitchen with fitted wooden units with tiled splashbacks, Miele oven, Bosch dishwasher, double sink, Bosch four ring gas hob with extractor, and window shutters. Opposite is a utility room, again with fitted units, with sink and a Miele washing machine, along with a clothes pulley, while beyond is a sizeable office/playroom with part panelled walls, fitted cupboards and shelves, cupboard housing an Ideal Mexico boiler, and a hatch with an attic ladder up to useful floored roof space. There is a side entrance vestibule with a tiled floor.

The staircase with a wooden handrail and cast iron bannisters leads up to the first floor landing where there is a shelved cupboard. The principal bedroom has ornate cornicing, bay window, high level skirting, together with a dressing room with fitted wardrobes and an en suite shower room with shower, wash basin and a separate WC with a shelved cupboard. There is a child's bedroom/office and three further bedrooms at this level with bedroom 3 having a built in wardrobe. Completing the first floor is a family bathroom with bath, shower, wash basin and WC. The staircase continues up to the second floor which is home to three attic bedrooms with fireplaces and a partially tiled bathroom with a bath with shower, wash basin and WC.

The garden extends to almost half an acre and is enclosed by walls and hedges, and comprises lawns, with shrub and rose borders, and steps leading down to a lower area of lawned garden. There is a garage/store (6.95mx3.25m) and in the rear garden, which is also lawn with borders, is a greenhouse and a stone built store (3.1mx1.85m).

Directions

From Dundee head north on the A90 dual carriageway and take the turning into Brechin (A935) passing the Brechin Castle Centre. In Brechin take the turning on the left, just before the Brechin Arms, onto Airlie Street, and then take the second right onto Argyll Street. Glengyle will be seen on the left. Alternatively, if coming from the north on the A90, take the B966 to Brechin, passing through Trinity. On entering Brechin turn right at the mini roundabout (signposted to Little Brechin) onto Distillery Road, and then take the second left onto Latch Road. Argyll Street is the second turning on the left, and Glengyle will be seen on the right. What3words - ///educates.pies.gallons Distances – A90 1.6 miles, Montrose 9 miles, Laurencekirk 11 miles, Forfar 11 miles, Dundee 26 miles, Aberdeen 40 miles