Apartment C, Saltoun Hall, Pencaitland, EH34 5DS

The property

£20,000 BELOW HR VALUE. An impressive ground floor apartment within an historic ‘A’ Listed neo-Gothic country house dating from the 12th Century with significant changes and additions in the 18th Century. Apartment C, one of 9 apartments formed from a sympathetic conversion in the 1970s, incorporates the former vault, cloakroom and billiard room to provide a stylish and spacious (1200 sq ft) rural home comprising a Hallway, Drawing Room with bay window and AGA wood burning stove, fully fitted Kitchen with vaulted ceiling, a circular Bedroom with excellent cupboard space and tiled Bathroom with free-standing footed bath-tub. The owners also enjoy common ownership of the grand Reception Hall and the Great Room with whisper gallery and fabulous domed ceiling. This room forms a central point of the building and is often used for parties and as a meeting place. The communal grounds extend to approximately 6 acres made up of formal gardens, rolling lawns, light shrubs and woodland, informal kitchen allotment areas, paths and the quarter mile driveway from the gatehouse. In addition, the proprietors of Saltoun Hall hold lease (99 years to 2069) to a further 15 acres of land and to riparian fishing rights on the Birns Water, a tributary of the River Tyne. There is a log store and a car garage which the present owners have converted into a dry lined workshop and closet storage space.