Westhaven House

Carnoustie, Angus, DD7 6JS

Offers Over £750,000

Bedroom Count icon 5

Reception Count icon 3

  • Magnificent Victorian house offering spacious and beautifully presented accommodation with lovely sea views.
  • 3/4 reception rooms, 4/5 Bedrooms (2 en suite), shower room, WC.
  • Immaculate and impressive family accommodation of a very high quality.
  • Delightful gardens.
  • Substantial carport.
  • Greenhouse, stores, kennel block, shed, garden pavilion.
  • Idyllic semi-rural location offering fair degree of privacy and excellent accessibility.

SITUATION Westhaven House is a truly exceptional property, standing in delightful immaculate grounds in a charming south-facing semi-rural setting on the eastern edge of the popular Angus town of Carnoustie, which provides an excellent range of local services and amenities, along with a thriving local community. A wider offering of facilities is on hand in Arbroath, with the resurgent city of Dundee no more than a comfortable twenty minute drive to the west. Aberdeen is approximately one hour to the north with Edinburgh about an hour and a half to the south.Carnoustie provides swift access to an area of particularly outstanding and varied countryside with hill, wood, river, farmland and coastline all nearby. The result is a fine choice for the outdoor enthusiast with walking, cycling and riding all readily available. Golfers in particular are especially well provided for with an unrivalled selection of highly rated courses within easy striking distance including the Championship Course at Carnoustie itself and the Old Course at St. Andrews, which both regularly host the British Open. Monifieth, Edzell, Montrose, Forfar and Alyth are also close at hand. Challenging shooting and fishing may be taken locally whilst the pretty Angus glens such as Isla, Prosen, Clova and Lethnot are temptingly close.Good state schooling is available locally with private schooling being provided at the High School of Dundee. Carnoustie benefits from a railway station on the main East Coast Line, which is only a 10 minute walk from the property and benefits from free all day parking. Edinburgh airport is about an hour and a quarter to the south whilst the busy regional airport at Dundee also offers a good range of short-haul flights.DESCRIPTIONWesthaven House dates from 1883 and originally formed part of Panmure Estate. The house is a most substantial and highly impressive, detached stone property, which has been carefully and sympathetically refurbished to a very high standard. Immaculate both internally and externally, the house is of a beautiful sandstone construction under a slate roof, with a delightful seaward southerly aspect. Generous and well-proportioned the accommodation is essentially centred on a most impressive hallway which gives access to all of the principal reception rooms as well as the first-floor accommodation via a wonderful grand staircase. The drawing room and dining room are both spectacular and benefit from lovely working open fireplaces (surmounted by mirrors) as well as delightful bright south-facing bay windows which enjoy charming aspects over the front garden. The cosy sitting room also lies to the front of the house, again with working open fire, along with a study/bedroom 5 and cloakroom. The rear hall leads through to the excellent and generously proportioned family / breakfast room and glazed doors offering direct access to the garden, providing secluded open easterly views over countryside. A door leads off the kitchen to a useful laundry/playroom off. The immaculate main kitchen lies to the rear. A generous utility room / laundry (with double Belfast sinks) is contained within the outbuildings to the rear of the house, with former dairy, stores and further ancillary accommodation completing the ground floor accommodation. Boiler room containing double boiler/low loss header modern gas boiler unit.In terms of the first floor the exquisite principal bedroom lies to the front of the house with a charming double aspect over the garden as well as the fields to the east, and absolutely exquisite en-suite bathroom off. A further generous double aspect bedroom lies to the front of the property, again with superb en-suite facilities, with two further well-proportioned bedrooms, shower room and spacious upper landing completing the first floor accommodation. Of an exceptionally high quality throughout, the house still benefits from many lovely period details such as extensive cornicing and several beautiful working open fireplaces, as well as stripped doors and wood flooring to extensive areas. Spacious, immaculate and charming, many of the rooms enjoy good views over the garden to the fields and sea beyond.ACCOMMODATION Ground Floor - Vestibule, Reception Hallway, Drawing Room, Sitting Room, Dining Room, Study/bedroom 5, Playroom/Laundry Room, Dining Kitchen, second Kitchen area, Pantry and Cloakroom with WC.First Floor - Master bedroom with en-suite shower/bathroom, second Bedroom with En-Suite Shower Room, 2 further Bedrooms and Shower Room.GARDEN AND GROUNDSThe immaculate gardens at Westhaven House are contained by stone walls and extend to about 1.35 acres and have a lovely southerly aspect to the North Sea. The property benefits from two entrances with monobloc driveways leading to extensive parking areas and carport. The gardens offer extensive lawns, a lovely terrace area and a charming mix of plants and shrubs along with several young and mature trees. There is a large, attached double car port with an enclosed workshop, of timber-framed and timber-clad construction, with a pitched profiledmetal roof, which benefits from electric power and light. There are various ancillary buildings including sheds, kennels, stores and an elevated garden pavilion and modern greenhouse.PV PannelsThere are PV Pannels on the roof, which are signed into a tariff agreement until 2037 with generation capacity of 3.9 kW and bring in a useful income. The income generated in 2024 was £2,241 and in 2025 it was £2,626.FLOOD RISKFlood maps of the area can be viewed at https://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmaps/FloodRisk/SearchDIRECTIONS The town of Carnoustie lies to the east of Dundee and can be accessed from a number of directions. Westhaven House stands on the eastern edge of the town just off the minor road that runs between Westhaven and Easthaven.POST CODE DD7 6JSWhat3Words///months.sensible.tomatoFIXTURES AND FITTINGSNo items are included unless specifically mentioned in these particulars. All floor coverings, light fixtures, blinds are included in the sale. The three mirrors in the drawing room, sitting room and dining room are included in the sale, as is the kitchen table and 6 kitchen chairs. Whilst the electric ovens are operational the gas connection to the hob of the Smeg kitchen range is disconnected and sold as seen. The Kabota G2311HD is available for purchase at a price to be agreed in addition with the seller. The garden statuary, ornaments, bird baths (to include all natural stone features, stone troughs, stathel stones (including plinths and tops), planters and pots are specifically excluded. The workshop benches and coal bunker are excluded. The weather vane is also excluded.VIEWINGSStrictly by appointment with the Selling Agents. ANTI MONEY LAUNDERING (AML) REGULATIONS Please note that under the 2017 AML regulations we are legally required to carry out money laundering checks against purchasers. Upon verbal acceptance of an offer, we require to identify the purchaser for Anti-Money Laundering purposes. Our service provider ‘First AML’ will contact the purchaser to gather the required identification documents. An information sheet is available from the selling agent on request. We are not able to enter a business relationship with a purchaser until they have been identifiedFailure to provide required identification may result in an offer not being considered.HEALTH & SAFETYAppropriate caution should be exercised at all times during inspection particularly in reference to any livestock present and working machinery and equipment on the property. 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 written Scottish Legal Form should be submitted to the local Galbraith office per these sale particulars, through a Scottish Lawyer, confirming; if an offer is in relation to the whole, or a specific lot, or a combination of lots, and if the offer is subject to the sale of a property. Upon verbal acceptance of an offer, we require to identify the purchaser for Anti-Money Laundering purposes. Our service provider ‘First AML’ will contact the purchaser to gather the required identification documents. An information sheet is available from the selling agent on request. We are not able to enter a business relationship with a purchaser until they have been identified. 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. In line with current trends in technology, some properties marketed by Galbraith, may have installed CCTV or other such recording devices. These devices are installed, held and maintained entirely at the discretion of the Owner of the property. 8. Photographs taken in April 2026.