UNDER OFFER
Features:
• A traditional Victorian early 19th century stone built four-bedroom end terrace village house with later extension on Main Street, in the conservation village of Pathhead
• An ideal and infrequent opportunity to acquire a family home while sympathetically creating a contemporary house allowing for an innovative approach to its required refurbishment and interior redesign of character allowing for renovation to your personal taste and requirments.
• Period features, cornices, working shutters, fireplaces, cast iron balusters
• Planning permission and a building warrant in place to install two dormer windows on the rear elevation of the roof
• Accommodation comprises: Ground floor - hall, family room, sitting room, dining room, kitchen, utility room and wc. First floor – four bedrooms and two bathrooms
• Gas fired central heating (boiler needs replaced it doesn’t function) and double glazing throughout - the windows, to the front, all have working shutters
• Enclosed back garden that is primarily grassed with stone-built potting shed
• The land between the house and the mono block pavement in front of the house belongs to it and is suitable for parking
• Additionally ample on street parking
Pathhead is an attractive small conservation village, dating back to Roman times. It is 4 miles south east of Dalkeith and 11 miles south of Edinburgh’s city centre.
35 Main Street is an traditional Victorian early 19th century stone built four-bedroom end terrace village house. It has been subsequently extended to the rear and now provides well-proportioned accommodation and a sizeable enclosed back garden.
It presents an ideal and infrequent opportunity to acquire a family home in a sought after and attractive village within recognised commuting distance of Edinburgh, while suited to a sympathetically renovation to creating a contemporary home. allowing for an innovative approach to its required refurbishment and interior redesign. It should be noted that planning permission and a building warrant are already in place to install two dormer windows on the rear elevation of the roof.
The front door opens leads directly into the hall; there is a large cupboard under the stair and access to the house’s two front facing rooms that overlook Main Street are accessible from it. To the left of the front door is a large family reception room and to the right, the sitting room with double doors that open into the adjoining dining area that has with a sliding patio doors that leads into the back garden. The kitchen sits next to opens off the dining room and, as a consequence, is semi open plan and currently has floor and wall mounted storage units and laminated work surfaces. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a utility room and wc. The later extension houses: the dining room; kitchen; and the utility room and wc.
The staircase to the first floor has attractive cast iron balusters and an oak mahogany hand rail. The landing gives access to all rooms. There are two comfortably sized double bedrooms overlooking Main Street. Between the two bedrooms, there is a naturally lit bathroom with three-piece suite and an electric shower over the bath. To the back of the house, in the extension, there are a further two double bedrooms that currently have both windows and Velux rooflights; this part of the house is one and a half storeys high and as such the existing windows in both of these back bedrooms are at floor level. Planning permission and a building warrant are now approved to replace these first-floor windows and rooflights with dormer windows for each of the two bedrooms. There is a second naturally lit bathroom with three-piece suite and shower over the bath; the bathroom door has a large glass opening in it that is made up of panels of frosted and stained glass.
The enclosed back garden that is primarily grassed is bounded by hedging, stonework walling and post and wire fencing and is accessed by a shared pedestrian pend (passageway) to the side of the house. At the rear of the garden is stone-built potting shed and there is also a storeroom that forms part of the house that can only be entered from the garden. The land between the house and the mono block pavement in front of the house belongs to it and is suitable for parking; there is also ample on street parking.
Area:
Situated on the A68, Pathhead is a long-established conservation village that is easily commutable to Edinburgh, being 11 miles south of the city centre.
It has a local primary school and medical centre that make it popular and a good choice of local essential shops and services including: a chemist, Post Office & general store, bakery, pub / restaurant, bowling club and village hall. Dalkeith is the nearest large town that provides secondary education through its High School and offers a wider range of shopping choices amenities and recreational facilities. Fort Kinnaird and Straiton retail parks are both less than a fifteen-minute car journey away.
The River Tyne and Lammermuir Hills provide access to country pursuits with Vogrie Country Park also close by.
Using The Borders Railway, Gorebridge train station is under ten minutes away and provides a regular service to Edinburgh Waverley. There is a regular bus service connecting Pathhead to the city centre and surrounding areas. The City of Edinburgh By-pass is less than 10 minutes away, with the city centre being approximately 30 minutes’ drive away.
EPC: Band D
Council Tax Band: F
Tenure: Freehold
Reference: RS1315