This property is no longer on the market
2 bedroom cottage
Key information
Property description & features
- Detached historic cottage
- Two bedrooms
- Period features
- Open fire in living room
- Woodburning stove in dining room
- Attractive gardens
- Easy access to local walking and cycle routes
- In Cairngorm National Park
This cottage was originally built in 1823 as a tollhouse prior to the abolition of toll roads in Scotland during the late 1800s. It retains many period features including exposed timber beams and attractive wooden internal doors. It has been which have been sympathetically combined with modern day living to create an unexpectedly spacious living space within.
The cottage provides a bright and cosy living room to the front with angled windows to the views of the woodlands and hills. There is an open fire set in a tiled fireplace with wooden mantelpiece. The adjacent living/dining room has a wood burning stove set in a stone fireplace.
The kitchen is in the rear extension and has a range of wall and floor units with mosaic tiled worktop and splashback. There is an integrated oven and ceramic hob. The bathroom is also in the extension area and consists a bath with electric shower over, WC and WHB.
Upstairs there are two characterful double bedrooms. Both have timber lined walls and coombed ceilings with Velux windows.
Externally the cottage has a gravelled driveway and timber shed to one side with a heather borders on the rear slope. On the opposite side of the house there is a garden area laid mainly to grass with a gravelled area ideal for a bench to make the most of this lovely sun trap. There is an attractive stone wall built into the surrounding rock which creates a beautiful boundary to the cultivated garden space. The ground behind and to the sides of the house are also included within the title and have a mixture of native trees and wildflowers.
The cottage is located at the entrance to the Cairngorm National Park, not far from the Killiecrankie Visitor Centre where there is a cafe and easy access to the historic Soldier's Leap and the extensive network of footpaths and cycle ways in the area. Blair Atholl with its historic castle is three miles to the north. Pitlochry is a short drive to the south, where there are schools, shops, cafes, hotels and the highly acclaimed theatre. Killiecrankie has a bus service to Pitlochry which itself connects by bus and train to the Central Belt to the south and Inverness to the north.
Rooms
Living Room 4.40m x 3.95m (14' 5" x 13' 0")
Living/Dining Room 4.40m x 3.75m (14' 5" x 12' 4")
Kitchen 2.20m x 1.80m (7' 3" x 5' 11")
Bathroom 3.25m x 1.30m (10' 8" x 4' 3")
Bedroom 1 4.40m x 4.40m (14' 5" x 14' 5")
Bedroom 2 4.50m x 4.40m (14' 9" x 14' 5")
Property information from this agent
Places of interest
See more properties like this:
*DISCLAIMER
Property reference PRA10118. The information displayed about this property comprises a property advertisement. OnTheMarket.com makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the advertisement or any linked or associated information, and OnTheMarket.com has no control over the content provided by the agent or developer. This property advertisement does not constitute property particulars. The information is provided and maintained by J & H Mitchell - Perthshire.
OnTheMarket may have applied supplementary data to this property listing, including:
Broadband availability and predicted speed
Broadband speed is measured in megabits per second, with the number returned showing how fast the connection is. Each reading is based on the highest predicted speed of any major broadband network for services that deliver the download speeds. The following are the different readings that we may display:
Basic: Up to 30 Mbit/s
Super-fast: Between 30 Mbit/s and 300 Mbit/s
Ultra-fast: Over 300 Mbit/s
The data is updated three times a year. The checker results are predictions and should not be regarded as guaranteed. For more information, see: https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/about-checker#Answer_0_2
Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength
Mobile signal predictions are provided by the four UK mobile network operators: EE, O2, Three and Vodafone. Predictions can vary significantly from the coverage you may actually experience as a result of local factors (especially terrain). Ofcom has tested the actual coverage provided in various locations around the UK to help ensure that these predictions are reasonable. The values shown against a property can be broken down as follows:
Clear: No bars, no signal predicted
Red: One bar, reliable signal unlikely
Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
Green: Three bars, likely to have good coverage and receive a data rate to support basic web services
Enhanced: Full bars, likely to have good coverage indoors and to receive an enhanced data rate to support multimedia services
Energy Performance data and Internal floor area
Any supplementary data should not be relied upon as forming part of any property particulars and OnTheMarket cannot be held responsible for any incorrectness in this data. See here for more information.