Meikle Broadlie

• A charming detached rural farmhouse nestled in a private secluded setting.
• About 2.59 acres.
• Entrance Porch. Living Room. 3 bedrooms. Kitchen. Box Room. Shower Room.
• Peaceful and private location.
• Requiring modernisation and refurbishment.
• Former byre.
• Large grounds and mature woodland.

Meikle Broadlie is an attractive rural detached farmhouse located about 1 mile from Dalry, North Ayrshire. Situated in a private, peaceful setting within the picturesque Garnock Valley, while remaining within easy reach of Glasgow (about 28 miles), the Ayrshire coast and local amenities. Local services and facilities are available in Dalry and Beith (6 miles), with the new improved Dalry Bypass. Dalry and Glengarnock (4.5 miles) have railway stations with regular services to Glasgow and beyond. There is primary schooling in Dalry, Glengarnock, Gateside and Beith and private schools at St Columbas (Kilmacolm), Ayr and Glasgow. Glasgow and Prestwick Airports are about 17 miles distant. The popular Craft Town of West Kilbride (6 miles) also offers a good range of local amenities including a number of local independent shops and cafes. Seamill Hydro Spa Hotel and The Waterside offer excellent facilities including dining, spa and fitness facilities.In the 1800s, the local textile industry in Dalry included the manufacture of cotton and carpet yarn, silk and harness weaving and sewing, dressing and spinning of flax and embroidery. The arrival of the railway line was essential in supporting these industries and the railway station in Dalry opened in March 1840 as part of the Glasgow to Ayr line. Ayrshire is renowned for its many golf courses and there are local courses at Beith and West Kilbride. There are excellent yachting facilities for enthusiasts with facilities at Largs, Inverkip and Troon. Previously a working farm, Meikle Broadlie comprises a traditional one and a half storey Ayrshire farmhouse of stone construction with a tiled roof and a brick and slate porch. The accommodation briefly comprises entrance porch, kitchen, shower room, living room, two bedrooms, box room and a further bedroom on the first floor.There is a garden area to the front with ample parking to the rear within a courtyard area. Whilst the farmhouse requires a degree of modernisation, it affords the next custodians the opportunity to create an excellent home that could be reconfigured or extended pending the relevant planning consents being obtained. It’s present accommodation includes a spacious entrance porch with tiled floor, dining kitchen with wall units and double sink, freestanding appliances including electric cooker, washing machine and fridge freezer and wood burning stove. This leads to the cosy living room with open fireplace, cobbled stone backdrop and alcove, two bedrooms, box room and wet room with built in shower and panelled walls, w.c. and sink. A spacious first-floor bedroom with built in window seat offers lovely views of its private grounds.In total there is about 2.59 acres with a 0.69 acre paddock, which is presently overgrown with rushes. There is a private track leading to the farmhouse and rear courtyard with a large sheltered decked area. There is an area of amenity woodland with species including ash, conifer, sycamore and beech. A tributary of the Putyan Burn runs to the south of the grounds.Adjoining the farmhouse there is a former byre of stone construction under box profile tin roofing, cobble floor and concrete floor, double door entrance, used for storage purposes (About 16.7m x 5.5m).Greenhouse.Some ruins remain of redundant farm buildings (with dilapidated roofs).DIRECTIONS From Glasgow, take the M8 towards Glasgow Airport, at Junction 28a take the A737 towards Irvine. Continue through Beith and on to Dalry. At Hillend roundabout, turn right onto Kilwinning Road and turn left onto Vennel Street, then turn left joining the B780 (Kilbirnie/West Kilbride/Adrossan). After the cemetery turn right onto Wingfaulds Avenue, proceed along this road onto the Fairlie Moor Road for about a quarter of a mile and Meikle Broadlie is then on the left hand side by stone sign.POST CODE - KA24 5HPWHAT3WORDSTo find this property location to within 3 metres, download and use What3Words and enter the following 3 words: proud.districts.windmills