The Property

The estate stands on the edge of Maybole, set within ten acres of grounds that sweep from open lawn to mature woodland. The central stone section of the house dates from around 1600, with the east and west wings added in approximately 1920. It is a substantial period home, around 6,060 square feet, that the current owners have taken in hand and upgraded throughout while leaving its character intact.

The accommodation is generous and well ordered. The ground floor holds an entrance vestibule, reception room, sitting room, dining room and study, alongside the garden room, kitchen, utility room and pantry, boiler room and a cloakroom with WC. The first floor is given over to four bedrooms, each with its own en-suite shower room, two of them with dressing rooms, together with a conservatory, a family bathroom and a separate WC. Above, the attic floor provides a further bedroom with its own shower room and dressing room. Throughout, the windows are timber sash and case, and the central heating is oil fired.

The kitchen is the natural heart of the house. It is a designer shaker design, beautifully made, and opens through french doors to the rear gardens and patio. To it the owners have added a state-of-the-art garden room with its own kitchen, a genuine second living and entertaining space rather than an afterthought.

There is more accommodation beyond the main house. Drumellan Cottage sits within the woods, detached and private, with an entrance hall, sitting room, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom. It lends itself to guests, extended family or a degree of independent living, and few houses of this kind can offer it.

The grounds are the setting the house deserves. They sweep away from the house in broad lawns before giving way to woodland banks that carry a good mix of species and a large number of mature trees. A paved patio sits to the rear, the natural place to gather on a long evening. As the light fades, the gardens come into their own. The house itself is up-lit, throwing its stone elevations into relief, and the paths through the grounds are lit in turn, so that the whole estate carries a quiet drama after dark. The views are entirely private and look out over the rolling hills of south Ayrshire.