The Barn

• **Home Report £525 K**
• Outstanding executive house in a lovely country setting.
• Sitting room, kitchen, 4 bedrooms (2 en-suite), bathroom, utility room, w.c.
• Excellent storage throughout.
• Integral double garage, private driveway and parking area.
• Enclosed front garden and private terrace.
• Air source heating and hot water system.
• Wonderful accessible location, ideal for commuters.

SITUATION The Barn is an exceptional contemporary family house, forming part the exclusive Russell Main Steading (newly built in 2015) and is surrounded by tranquil Fife countryside. The house is very well placed for the commuter, just outside Cupar Muir and a short distance to the south-west of the sought after county market town of Cupar, which provides an excellent range of local shops, services and amenities together with primary and secondary schooling. St. Andrews, the ancient and historic university town renowned worldwide as “The Home of Golf” is a twenty minute drive to the east, with the full range of city amenities and facilities readily accessible in the resurgent City of Dundee, currently home to Scott’s RSS Discovery and V & A museum. Perth is also within comfortable driving distance with Edinburgh less than one hour to the south. The lovely quaint fishing villages of the East Neuk such as Anstruther, St. Monans, Pittenweem and Crail, several good beaches such as Elie and St. Andrews and the vast open spaces of the Lomond hills are also all within easy reach. In terms of visitor attractions, the area is well served by a number of National Trust for Scotland properties including Falkland Palace, Kellie Castle and Hill of Tarvit House. There are several state primary and secondary schools in the area with independent schooling on hand at St. Leonards in St. Andrews, the High School of Dundee and several well regarded schools in the Perth area. The property is nearby to the local bus route and there are railway stations in Springfield, Cupar, Ladybank, Markinch and Leuchars with Edinburgh airport about forty five minutes away by road. Dundee airport operates a range of short haul flights.DESCRIPTION The Barn has a lovely south facing façade with an enclosed garden surrounding the property. It offers spacious and generous proportioned accommodation over two levels, ideal for entertaining and modern family living. The house benefits from many high quality features including engineered oak flooring on the ground floor with under floor heating powered by an economical air source heat pump. The property is entered into the vestibule, which leads to a large bright open-plan sitting room with log burning stove and an area suitable to house a large dining table. Glazed sliding doors open out to a lovely decked area. The high quality kitchen has an excellent range of fitted floor and wall units with integrated Siemens appliances. Further glazed sliding doors open out from the kitchen to the decked area. The kitchen table and chairs are included in the sale. From the hall a passageway leads to the utility room which has a door to the rear of the property. An integral large double garage is also accessed from here, which has a remote controlled electric roller door. The unit under the staircase is included in the sale. Further accommodation on the ground floor is also accessed from the sitting room including a large walk-in cupboard, bedroom 4 which has fitted wardrobes and W.C. A staircase gives access to all first floor accommodation including a large galleried landing, 3 further bedrooms (two of which are en-suite), family bathroom, walk-in cupboard and two further cupboards. ACCOMMODATION Ground Floor: Sitting room, bedroom 4, kitchen, utility room, w.c.First Floor: Three bedrooms (two en-suite), bathroom, galleried landing.GARDENThe property has a gravel parking area with space for 4 cars. A gate leads into the sunny garden which is fully enclosed by fencing. The garden is laid to lawn with a lovely decked area and shrubbed borders. SERVICESMains water, mains electricity, private drainage.TENUREFreehold.HEATING Air source.COUNCIL TAX The property has been assessed by Fife Council as Band F.EPC Band CDIRECTIONS The Barn is accessed via a shared private road off the minor road running between Springfield and Cupar Muir, at the sign for Russell Mains. The Barn is situated on the north-west side of the steading.POST CODE KY15 5QT WHAT3WORDSTo find this property location to within 3 metres, download and use What3Words and enter the following 3 words: bidder.intricate.emeraldsFIXTURES AND FITTINGSNo items are included unless specifically mentioned in these particulars.