Location

Lismore House is in an idyllic rural location with commanding views, being located in the rural commuter belt west of Aberdeen between Royal Deeside and Donside. The village of Sauchen has a primary school and is 7 miles from Alford, the principal town serving Donside.   

Alford offers an excellent range of amenities including a health centre, shops, cafés, filling station and hotels. Leisure pursuits are well catered for with a swimming pool, a dry ski slope at Alford Ski Centre and an 18 hole golf course. Visitor attractions include the Grampian Transport Museum, Alford Railway Museum and Alford Heritage Centre. The life size statue of a bull on the eastern approach to the town marks the area's claim to be the birthplace of the Aberdeen Angus breed of cattle. On the edge of Alford is Haughton Country Park, a 200 acre park with children's play area, walks and trails, a putting green and campsite. The ski slopes at the Lecht are about 25 miles to the west. The surrounding hills offer wonderful walking and a wide range of field sports is readily available in the area. The boundary of the Cairngorms National Park lies some 12 miles to the west. Secondary schooling is at Alford Academy. The community campus in Alford includes primary and secondary schools, a swimming pool, sports facilities, a theatre, a library and a community café. There are three independent schools available in Aberdeen. For the sports enthusiast, the surrounding countryside could not offer a richer choice. There is salmon and trout fishing on the nearby rivers Don and Dee and deer stalking and shooting in the locality. The area is in the heart of castle country and the National Trust for Scotland has a number of properties open to the public including Craigievar, Leith Hall, Castle Fraser, Fyvie and Crathes. Regular bus services are available from Alford with links to Aberdeen, Westhill, Kintore and Kemnay, with trains available at nearby Insch and Inverurie. Aberdeen provides all the business, leisure, recreational and entertainment facilities expected from a major city, and its airport is easily reached.

Description

This delightful detached home was built in 1993 of traditional construction and has more recently been upgraded to provide a ready-to-move-into home.   Throughout the ground floor there is hard surface flooring which is a combination of Karndean; black slate and oak herringbone and Moduleo. The first floor level has Karndean oak select and high quality Cormar and Abingdon self coloured carpets. Doors, door frames and skirting boards are of a hardwood finish.

The current owners have created a very stylish home with a flexible configuration. A front vestibule has French doors leading into the spacious hallway with understair cupboard. At the heart of the home is the open plan dining kitchen and family room. Very well appointed, the kitchen has a bank of floor to ceiling cabinets and further base cabinets which are finished in a charcoal shade complemented by quartz worksurfaces. The island has further drawer space and bar-style dining on the other side and is also finished in quartz. Integrated and concealed is a Bosch dishwasher. The centrepiece is the black electric four oven AGA with feature brick surround above. The family room has french doors opening onto a patio area and the garden. A pantry also has space to accommodate a refrigerator and freezer and there is external access. The lounge is an elegant space with a picture window overlooking the garden, sliding patio doors and a focal point Wiking wood burning stove.   More formal entertaining space is catered for in the dining room with twin aspect front windows and rear sliding patio doors. For everyday domestic tasks there is a utility room with plumbing for a washing machine and space for a tumble dryer along with side garden access. This room leads into the home office with twin front aspect windows. The ground floor is completed with a modern shower room with white WC and wash basin. An oversized roman shower enclosure houses a rainfall mains shower. A carpeted staircase with decorative spindles and balustrade leads up to the elongated landing where there are linen and storage cupboards. The majority of the four first floor bedrooms have an outlook over the manège and garden grounds. There is a study with similar views. The main bathroom features a freestanding roll top bath with ornate claw feet and separate Roman shower enclosure.

A gated driveway is flanked by lawns and leads into a large driveway with thick gravel covering, with the option of secondary access into the grazing paddocks, stables, agricultural building and manege. A paved footpath surrounds most of the house and there are low level garden walls surrounding most of the perimeter of the garden grounds. A sheltered patio is a lovely spot for alfresco dining and refreshments. A greenhouse with electricity supplements the kitchen garden and there are some established soft fruit bushes.   Mature flowerbeds and borders provide colour at seasonal times. A timber garden shed has power and light. The lined agricultural building has an electric roller door and internal Monarch stable block. The manège is sand topped and has wiring in place for illumination. The grazing paddocks have troughs.