MELVILLE HOUSE1 SEAFIELD STREET, NAIRN

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MELVILLE HOUSE, 1 SEAFIELD STREET, NAIRN

A handsome Victorian house overlooking Nairn beach.

Airport 7 miles ■ Inverness 15 miles

0.3 hectares (0.8 acres).

■ 4 reception rooms. 7 bedrooms.

■ Versatile family accommodation retaining many original features.

■ Integral 4 bedroom flat.

■ Double garage and outbuildings.

■ Established grounds with courtyard sitting area and kitchen garden.

■ Within easy walking distance of the town centre and Nairn Championship Golf Course.

SITUATION Melville House is on a peaceful residential street in Nairn with views over the links to the Moray Firth and Easter Ross.

Nairn has long been popular with tourists, attracted by its mild climate and long sandy beaches. Today it is a thriving centre with a good range of shops and amenities, including a railway station, and excellent leisure facilities with 2 championship golf courses, a marina, swimming pool and tennis courts. Nairn also benefits from the establishment of super-fast broadband. Inverness is within easy reach and has all the facilities of a modern city including its airport with several flights per day to London, as well as regular flights to Europe.

The Moray coast is famous for its mild dry climate and beautiful coastline and the countryside offers a range of leisure and sporting pursuits, including the Cairngorm and The Lecht Ski Centres which are both under an hour’s drive away.

DESCRIPTION Melville House is an early Victorian detached residence built at a time when Nairn first became a popular holiday destination. For several years, the house was run as a hotel, but when purchased by the current owners in 2006 it reverted to a family home. Considerable improvements have been made which introduce the comforts of modern living whilst retaining the grandeur of the house and preserving original features. The work carried out includes timber replacement wooden, double glazed sash and casement windows, roof insulation, new boilers in the main house and flat, reconfiguration of some en suite shower rooms, a new kitchen, new radiators, and a new double garage with full-height loft storage space.

The integral first floor flat provides generous accommodation in itself and this, combined with the versatile layout of the main house, offers the opportunity to provide tourist or residential letting options with owners’ accommodation.

The double aspect sitting room with open fire with slate surround and carved timber mantelpiece.

The dining kitchen with integral appliances and range cooker with gas hob.The spacious dining room with open fire and glazed door to conservatory.

The double aspect billiard room.

Bedroom 1 with garden views.

The triple aspect conservatory with original bar.

The double aspect bedroom 3.

ACCOMMODATION

HOUSEGround Floor: Entrance Vestibule. Entrance Hall. Drawing Room. Conservatory. Dining Room. Snooker Room. Dining Kitchen. Laundry. Study/Bedroom with en suite Shower Room. Office. Back Hall. Pantry. Cloakrooms. Cellar.

First Floor: 2 en suite Bedrooms. 2 further Bedrooms. Dressing Room with en suite Shower Room. Family Bathroom.

Second Floor: 3 en suite Bedrooms. Boxroom. Walk in linen cupboard.

INTEGRAL FLATEntrance Hall. Sitting Room with Kitchenette. Bedroom with en suite Shower Room. 3 further Bedrooms. Bathroom.

OUTBUILDINGS

Double Garage 7.5m x 7.4mWith 2 up-and-over doors, concrete floor, side door to garden, power and light. A Ramsay ladder leads to a floored loft area with high level double doors.

Within the grounds area 2 greenhouses, a garden shed, summerhouse and compost bins.

GROUNDSThe grounds at Melville House extend to approximately 0.8 acres. To the front of the house is a gravel parking area with in-and-out gates, while the gravel drive leads round to a block paved parking area adjacent to the garage at the rear of the property.

The gardens comprise terraced lawns interspersed and fringed by mature specimen trees and with waterfall ponds edged with water margin plants and perennials. There is a kitchen garden with a fruit cage, vegetable beds and two greenhouses, while at the rear of the house is an enclosed courtyard sitting area.

MOVEABLESAll fitted carpets and blinds are included in the sale. The snooker table and some other items are available by separate negotiation.

SERVICES, COUNCIL TAX AND ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE(S)

Water Drainage Heating Council Tax EPC

Mains Mains Gas fired Band H D

POST CODE SOLICITORSIV12 4HN MacLeod and MacCallum, 28 Queensgate, Inverness

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 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 Galbraith, 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, through a Scottish Lawyer, to Galbraith, Reay House, 17 Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness, IV2 3HF. 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. 7. Photographs taken in April 2019.