East Blairtummock

• Architect designed Detached House (2018).
• Contemporary and efficient living.
• Air source heat pump with underfloor heating.
• Jotul woodburning stove.
• Triple and double glazing.
• South facing for ambient solar gain.
• Six apartments in total but used as two bedrooms.
• Formal garden plus hillside fields, rural views.
• Approximately seven acres in total.
• Two en-suites plus WC.
• Kitchen and Utility Room.
• 1.6 miles east of Strathblane village.
Set at the very foothills of The Campsie Fells our clients commissioned the construction of East Blairtummock and, with their architect, have created a contemporary, very efficient, Detached Country Home in the rural district of Campsie Glen some 1.6 miles east of Strathblane and approximately 2 miles west of Clachan of Campsie.
Set off Strathblane (A891) at the end of a long sweeping grave drive it sits proudly on an elevated spot to take advantage of a wonderful southerly view across the farmland valley of Campsie Glen.
It has immediate formal gardens, including a delightful sun terrace, of approximately 0.4 acres in addition to which it has fenced land (mainly hillside pasture fields) of approximately 6.5 acres.
Our clients, a retired couple, designed the house for themselves as a two-bedroom property, both with en-suite shower rooms, but there is, in addition to the main living room (a spacious lounge/dining room) an artist’s studio and a further very large room (designated as a storage room) on the first floor along with a workshop on the ground floor. If additional bedrooms are needed, then there is obvious capability here for said use or specific allocation, subject to planning approval – the large storage room, for example, could perfectly accommodate both a bedroom and a bath/shower room should permissions grant.
The house was, in large part, designed for easy living and for futureproofing. The air source heat pump, along with high levels of insulation, provides for efficient heating and indeed our clients receive, we understand, some £1,300 per annum return from their RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) feed-in tariff. The windows on the ground floor are all triple glazed, the Velux windows, upstairs, double glazed. In addition to the underfloor heating (wet system) there is mains electricity supplied emersion heating for the hot water as a backup as well as the luxury of a wood burning stove by Jotul in the lounge which, when on, permeates heat throughout the house.
Aesthetically, the house is very considered with a deep overhanging roof line to provide shelter, particularly above the French doors of the lounge and the terrace there. The roof is slated to provide a nod to the rural nature of its situation with external walls smooth rendered accented with Siberian larch cladding detail. The windows, whilst finished in natural timber inside, are finished in maintenance free powder coated aluminium (anthracite grey colour) externally.
Internal doors are solid oak, as are skirtings and facings. Décor is a cool palette of white and floor coverings include oak (hall, lounge/dining room, kitchen, Bedroom 1, Bedroom 2, staircase); tile (utility room, WC, both en-suite shower rooms); LVF wood plank click flooring (workshop, artist’s studio, hobby room).
The property is on mains water, BT landline and mains electricity in addition to that provided by the air source heat pump. Drainage is private and to a bio-disc plant located just beyond the east stone dyke wall of the formal garden.

EPC: C
Council Tax: G
Tenure: Freehold

GROUND FLOOR
• Hall.
• Spacious Lounge and open plan Dining Room with French doors to the south facing sun terrace and with lots of windows/glazing for solar gain. Cleverly designed ‘pocket door’ creates a separation to the kitchen if required.
• Kitchen – contemporary in design with a range of handle-less units in an off white/pale grey colour. Solid stone composite worktops and upstands and including a centre island with stainless steel Blanco sink. Appliances include – induction hob, oven, microwave, warming drawer, dishwasher (all by Neff) and an unbranded integrated fridge freezer.
• Utility Room – with back door. Similarly designed units to that of the kitchen but with laminate worktops.
• WC – Good size, modern white suite.
• Workshop – in here is the hot water cylinder (Nibe HA-WH5 Megacoil 200L) for the air source heat pump (Nibe F2040) and the system’s inverter (Nibe SMO 20).
• Bedroom 1 – A lovely room, double in size, with a nice corner window configuration and with a walk-in wardrobe.
• En-suite – large Shower Room with four-piece suite including WC, wall hung wash hand basin, bidet and an oversized shower enclosure zone with a thermostatic shower with both deluge and hand shower heads. Chrome towel radiator.
FIRST FLOOR
• A very smartly designed return flight staircase with oak treads and risers. Features Velux windows to the front and particularly to the rear where there is a combination set of sloping and vertical Velux windows, a really good design feature. This leads to a galleried upper hall overlooking the hall below.
• Bedroom 2 – another fine double room with Velux windows both to the front and to the rear.
• En-suite – another very smartly fitted Shower Room with three-piece suite and, again, an oversized shower enclosure with thermostatic shower (deluge and hand showerhead). Chrome towel radiator.
• Artist’s Studio – quite a feature room. Full of light with Velux windows to the front and particularly to the rear including further sets of combination Velux’s. High vaulted ceiling.
• Storage Room – off the Studio and a particularly large space with, again, high vaulted ceiling and Velux windows to the front.
SITUATION
East Blairtummock is in a small Clachan of only three homes – East Blairtummock, Blairtummock and Blairtummock Lodge. It is just over 1.5 miles east of Strathblane in a lovely rural situation at the foothills of The Campsie Fells. Its formal gardens, immediately to the front of the house lie mainly to lawn and are interspersed with trees and shrubs and there is a delightful, slabbed sun terrace running across the front of the house that is sheltered by two glass wind screens to either end. Pond at the foot of the garden. Garden shed. At the end of the gravel access drive there is parking for a few cars but there is then a set of timber garden gates opening to a further parking area immediately to the east gable of the house. Beyond the formal gardens there is an area where preparatory work has been done for a pond (in addition to the pond in the formal garden) and beyond this area are the fields which are in two sections and fenced in by stob and wire fence. The fields are on a sloping gradient and a very useful asset to have.
The property falls within East Dunbartonshire with non-denominational primary school catchment being in Lennoxtown with secondary schooling either at Lenzie Academy or Kilsyth Academy. The nearest main town is probably Milngavie which has a fantastic range of shops and services, and this can be reached by car in approximately 10 to 15 minutes. The nearby village of Strathblane and its immediate neighbour of Blanefield has some services including a general store in Blanefield and a well-stocked Co-op in Strathblane, with Post Office. There is the Kirkhouse Inn Hotel with Pub and a Coffee Shop with Delicatessen.
A unique home that should find broad appeal with a cross section of the market.
SAT NAV REF: G66 7AR – From Strathblane take the A891 (Strathblane Road) for approximately 1.6 miles whereupon you will find Blairtummock on the left-hand side. The entry for Blairtummock Lodge and Blairtummock is the first drive, beyond this on the left is the gravel driveway for East Blairtummock.

EPC Rating: C
Council Tax Band: G


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