Location
11 McInnes Gardens sits in a quiet residential street on the edge of the Fife market town of Cupar. Cupar is an active market town, with a railway station and an excellent range of local shops, restaurants, supermarkets and professional services. A number of nurseries and primary schools are located around the town and feed in to secondary schooling at Bell Baxter High School. The River Eden flows through the town and provides scenic walks along its banks. Duffus Park is home to the Howe of Fife Rugby Club, Cupar Sports Club, a bowling club and a play park on Balgarvie Road.
Just 10 miles away, on the coast to the east, is St Andrews, renowned worldwide as the Home of Golf and also well known for its university which is one of the oldest in Britain. Private co-educational schooling is available at St Leonards (St Andrews), or Dundee High School. St Andrews also has an excellent range of shops, restaurants, supermarkets and professional and cultural amenities, including a cinema and popular theatre.
Cupar railway station (1 mile) has direct trains to Edinburgh and Dundee. Leuchars station (7 miles) is situated on the main Aberdeen to London east coast line. Edinburgh Airport, with its increasingly wide range of domestic and international flights, is only 42 miles away and Dundee Airport (15 miles) has regular services to London Heathrow. All distances are approximate.
Description
Built in 2003, 11 McInnes Gardens is an appealing family house offering spacious, flexible and naturally light living space. The development was built in the grounds of Eden Park House, an attractive Georgian building, and the original walled garden forms part of the boundary to No.11, which makes for an attractive feature. An original stone-built, two storey outhouse for Eden Park House was converted into garaging for No.11 when the development was carried out. It was subsequently converted by the current owner to form a ground floor home office, with studio above which is accessed by a staircase to the rear. This detached building offers excellent potential for further conversion into additional accommodation, subject to the required consents.
The front door to 11 McInnes Gardens opens up into an entrance hall, off which the kitchen / breakfast room, dining room, sitting room and family / garden room are all situated. The latter of these rooms is a superb, spacious and naturally bright entertaining room. It has windows with lovely garden views on three aspects, double doors leading out, and a part-vaulted ceiling. The adjacent kitchen / breakfast room has fitted counters and cabinets with backlighting, a Cookmaster range cooker, and a useful door into the utility room. This is plumbed for appliances, has a generous store cupboard and a back door into the garden. The dining room and sitting room both have south-facing outlooks over the front of the house. There is also a WC opposite, as you enter the front door to the house.
All four double bedrooms at the house are situated off the first floor landing, and benefit from fitted wardrobes. The south-facing principal bedroom has a stunning outlook towards Hill of Tarvit. It has a dressing area with fitted wardrobes and an en suite shower room. Bedroom 2 overlooks the rear garden and also has an en suite shower room. Bedrooms 3 and 4 share use of the family bathroom which has both a bath and a separate shower cubicle.
There is an extensive monobloc parking area situated between the outbuilding, and the main house. Stone pillars and a wrought iron fence with a gate separate the parking to the front, from the beautifully presented garden which sits to the side and rear of the house, enclosed by the original wall for the walled garden to the west, and fencing along the north and east boundaries. The garden is largely laid to lawn and there is a bank of shrubs and evergreen trees to the north to offer shelter and privacy. There is a terrace which is ideal for outdoor entertaining. A useful bin store sits to the side of the outbuilding.