Craigellachie Lodge, Craigellachie, Moray Offers in excess of £600,000

Situation

Craigellachie Lodge lies close to the Cairngorm National Park and in the heart of the Spey Valley, an area best known for its beautiful countryside, salmon fishing, malt whisky production and as a popular destination for those seeking activity and sporting holidays. The region offers many opportunities for sport and recreation with a number of way marked walks and cycle trails nearby, and fishing, shooting and stalking available on local estates, including salmon fishing on the world famous River Spey. There are a number of golf courses in the area and both The Lecht and Cairngorm Ski and Activity Centres are open all year round. Speyside is the home of malt whisky and this area forms part of the whisky trail with many distilleries with visitors’ centres close by.
The village of Craigellachie has a post office, garage with shop, primary school and popular hotel, while Aberlour has a wider range of shops and amenities and schooling up to secondary level available both in the town and at Gordonstoun Independent School, about 20 minutes to the North. Elgin has more extensive facilities including a railway station on the main Inverness to Aberdeen line, while Inverness and Aberdeen airports are both within one hours drive and have frequent flights to the South and Europe.

Description

Craigellachie Lodge is a handsome, traditional mansion situated on the edge of the village of Craigellachie. The property, built around 1860 for a local distillery owner, has been home to a number of well-known and distinguished locals over the decades and has formerly been used successfully for bed and breakfast purposes. Today, Craigellachie Lodge is a gracious and comfortable family home, retaining many original features. There is high quality workmanship throughout, typical of the Victorian period. This is reflected in the elegant and spacious interior, with bay windows, intricate cornicing and the impressive entrance hall with its galleried banister. Many of the bright and airy rooms have views to the gardens, the River Spey and Ben Aigen. Craigellachie Lodge has been well maintained and upgraded and any modernisation has been sympathetically carried out to preserve its traditional features. The current owners have recently carried out a programme of works including the installation of a new fitted kitchen, with new four oven Aga, and improvements to the electrics, timbers, roof and insulation.
Craigellachie Lodge is of stone and slate construction. From the main public road a tree lined, curving driveway leads to a gravel parking area at the front of the house.

Accommodation

Accommodation
Steps lead to the partly glazed front door opening to:
Entrance Porch
2.6m x 2.3m
With mosaic tiled floor, dado rail, cornicing and doors to:
Cloakroom
2.3m x 1.2m
With partly glazed door with fan light above, WC, wash hand basin, dado rail and cornicing.
Entrance Hall
5.5m x 4.8m
With partly glazed double doors from the porch, cornicing, galleried banister, telephone point and door to:
Breakfast Room
4.5m x 4.4m
With dado rail, cornicing, working shutters on window, fitted cupboard with partly glazed doors and door
to:
Kitchen
5.5m x 3.5m
With fitted floor and wall units, four oven gas fired Aga, double stainless steel sinks, polished granite worktops, integral dishwasher, integral induction hob with extractor hood, integral electric oven and microwave, integral American fridge freezer, tiled floor, cornicing, TV point, telephone point and door to rear corridor.
Returning to the entrance hall, further doors lead to:
Drawing Room
6.7m including bay window x 6.2m including bay window
A most attractive double aspect room with timber floor, partly vaulted ceiling, cornicing, dado
rail, fitted cupboard, open fire with marble surround and hearth, carved timber mantelpiece, recess, TV point and telephone point.
Study
4.3m x 4.3m
With dado rail, cornicing, working shutters on window and door to:
Walk-in Cupboard
2.1m x 1.4m
Formerly a shower room. An L-shaped room with tiled shower cubicle, wash hand basin, heated towel rail, shaver light, extractor fan and partly tiled walls.
Dining Room
6.7m including bay window x 5m
Currently used as a bedroom. A double aspect room with open fire with brick surround and hearth, carved timber mantelpiece, partly glazed fitted cupboard, dado rail, cornicing, partly vaulted ceiling. Door to lobby with door opening to:
Bathroom
3.5m x 2.8m
A double aspect room with corner windows, bath with hand shower attachment, wash hand basin with marble surround and splashback, mirror, shaver light, WC, bidet, partly panelled walls, wall mounted electric bar heater, heated towel rail and door to west wing corridor.
Returning to the entrance hall, an open square arch leads to the rear corridor with wall mounted fuse box, door to bathroom and open square arch leading to the west wing corridor with fitted cupboards, door to bathroom doors off to:
Utility Room
2.9m x 1.7m
With tiled floor, skylight window, fitted cupboards, open shelving and storage cupboard. The west wing corridor continues to the west wing hall, housing cleaning cupboard, door to bathroom and doors off to:
Bedroom 1
4.5m x 4.3m
With open fire with brick surround and hearth, timber mantelpiece, TV point and door to:
En suite Bathroom
2.9m x 2.7m
With bath with shower over, wash hand basin, mirror, shaver light, WC, partly timber lined walls, partly tiled walls and door returning to west wing hall.
Bedroom 2
5m x 4m max
With open fire with brick surround and hearth, timber mantelpiece, TV point and glazed door to:
En suite Bathroom
4m x 1.3m
With views over the garden, bath with shower over, wash hand basin, shaver light, WC, fitted cupboards and partly tiled walls. Returning to the entrance hall, stairs with storage cupboard lead to the first floor landing, with dado rail with doors off to:
Bedroom 3
5.5m x 4.7m max
With timber mantelpiece and tiled insert, cornicing, TV point, door to attic and door to:
En suite Bathroom
3.3m x 1.7m
With bath with mains power shower over, wash hand basin, shaver light, WC, cornicing, extractor fan and partly tiled walls.
Bedroom 4
4.3m x 4.1m max
With two fitted cupboards, timber mantelpiece, cornicing, TV point and door to:
En suite Bathroom
2.3m x 1.4m
With bath with mains power shower over, wash hand basin, shelf, shaver light, WC, cornicing, extractor fan and partly tiled walls.
Bedroom 5
5.4m x 3.7m max
The Turret Room. A triple aspect with fitted cupboard, corner turret area, TV point and door to:
En suite Shower Room
1.9m x 1.4m
With corner shower cubicle with mains power shower, wash hand basin, shaver light, WC, extractor fan and heated towel rail.
Returning to the entrance hall, stairs lead to partly glazed door opening to the lower ground floor and to the main corridor with cupboards housing fuse boxes, store cupboard, walls panelled to dado height, window looking in to garden room and doors off to:
Library
5.4m x 4.8m
With one bookcase lined wall, wood burning stove on a slate hearth, timber mantelpiece, partly glazed cupboard, glazed door to garden, cornicing and TV point.
Bathroom
3.5m x 1.7m
With bath with mains power shower over, wash hand basin, shaver light, WC, partly tiled walls and walls panelled to dado height.
Bedroom 6
5.4m x 4.2m
With wash hand basin, shaver light, dado rail and TV point.
Bedroom 7
4.6m x 4.3m
With wash hand basin, shaver light, fitted cupboard and TV point.
Kitchen
3.1m x 2.6m
A double aspect room with fitted floor units, single bowl stainless steel sink with drainer, washing machine, dishwasher, electric cooker, fridge, fitted cupboards and door to hall (currently used as a dining/breakfast area) with doors to:
Bathroom
3.1m x 2.2m
With bath with hand shower attachment, wash hand basin, shaver light, WC and partly tiled walls.
Cold Store
2.9m x 2m
With stone shelving.
Returning to the ground floor kitchen, double doors open to:
Garden Room
4.7m x 3.5m
With flagstone floor, window looking into corridor, doors to courtyard and partly glazed door leading to corridor, door to main corridor and doors off to:
WC
1.5m x 1mWith wash hand basin with tiled splashback, shaver light and WC.
Shower Room
2.7m x 0.9m
With corner shower cubicle with mains power shower.
Boiler Room/Laundry
5.5m x 3.1m
With plumbing for washing machines, hot water cylinder, oil fired boiler and door to:
Office
5.3m x 3.4m
A double aspect room with fitted cupboard, gas meter, TV point and telephone point.
Returning to the main entrance hall, a door opens to stairs to:
Attic
5.1m x 3.5m
With coombed ceiling, two skylight windows, access to roof space, wall mounted fuse box and electricitymeter and door to Bedroom 3
OUTBUILDINGS
Attached to the house and accessible from the garden.
Rod Room
5.6m x 2.1m
With concrete floor, rod racks, power, light and door to:
Wood Store
5.5m x 2m
With partly glazed door to courtyard, concrete floor, power, light and door to:
Store Room
5.5m x 4.3m
An L-shaped room with concrete floor, power, door to courtyard and light.
GARDENS AND GROUNDS
The grounds at Craigellachie Lodge extend to approximately 1.5 acres. On the approach to the house, the grounds are sheltered and edged by mature trees and hedges. The front of the house is clad with a mix of climbers and at their foot narrow beds planted with perennials and spring flowering bulbs.
A honeysuckle clad archway leads to the side garden, enclosed by a beech hedge and comprising lawns edged by a shrubbery. A gravel path follows the border at the foot of the house wall and leads to a wrought iron gate opening to the main garden. Here, terraced, gently sloping lawns are edged by a stone wall and hedging and interspersed with mature fruit and specimen trees. Alpine beds and low stone walls edge the lawn and flagstone path leading round the house to the rear courtyard.
SERVICES
Water Mains
Electricity Mains
Drainage Mains
Heating Oil fired
Internet Broadband
There is also a mains gas connection to the house.
COUNCIL TAX
Craigellachie Lodge falls under Council Tax Band G.
MOVEABLES
All fitted carpets, curtains and some light fittings are included in the sale. Further items may be available by separate negotiation.
VIEWING
Viewing is by prior appointment only through the selling agents – CKD Galbraith or Savills. The person who may accompany you however, may not be an employee of CKD Galbraith or Savills.
IMPORTANT NOTES
1. These particulars are intended to give a fair and overall description of the property. If any points are relevant to your interest, please ask for further information prior to viewing. Prospective purchasers are advised to seek their own professional advice.
2. Areas, measurements and distances are given as a guide. Photographs depict only certain parts of the property. Nothing within the particulars shall be deemed to be a statement as to the structural condition, nor the working order of the services and appliances.
3. These particulars shall not be binding on our clients whether acted on or otherwise, unless the same is incorporated within a written document, signed by our clients or on their behalf, satisfying the requirements of Section 3 of The Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995.
4. Closing Date
A closing date may be fixed. Prospective purchasers who have notified their interest through lawyers to CKD Galbraith or Savills, in writing, will be advised of a closing date, unless the property has been sold previously. The Seller will not be obliged to accept the highest, or indeed any offer and has the right to accept an offer at any time or withdraw the property from the market. The Seller will not be liable for any costs incurred by interested parties.
5. Offers
Formal offers in the acceptable Scottish form should be submitted, thought a Scottish Lawyer, to CKD Galbraith, 5 Commerce Street, Elgin, Moray, IV30 1BS or Savills, Wemyss House, 8 Wemyss Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6DH.
6. Third Party Rights and Servitudes
The subjects are sold together with and subject to all existing rights of way, servitudes, wayleaves and others whether contained in the Title Deeds or otherwise, and purchasers will be deemed to have satisfied themselves in all respects thereof.
Internal/External photographs taken 2 years ago.

Directions

From Elgin take the A941 signposted to Rothes and Aberlour. Continue through Rothes and on reaching Craigellachie, pass the Craigellachie Hotel and take the next left on the A941
signposted to Dufftown. Craigellachie Lodge is the first drive on the right hand side.
From Grantown-on-Spey, take the A95 towards Aberlour. Pass through Aberlour and on entering Craigellachie, take the first right, onto the A941, signed to Dufftown. Craigellachie Lodge is the first drive on the right hand side.