& An elegant period home
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Millbank Cottage in Johnstone’s Brewery Street is a Victorian detached property within walled and private gardens in the centre of the town. The level and mature gardens include a lawn area with a patio terrace for outside dining, and an ornamental pond with display beds and external timber sheds for storage. There is a garage with remote controlled roller doors and vehicular access gained from Rankine Street.
Described by the agents as an elegant period home, it offers accommodation of five principal apartments formed over one and a half stories.
It is a stone cottage with a traditional slate roof, and the accommodation comprises a storm door leading into an entrance vestibule with a timber and glazed door leading to an L-shaped inner reception hallway.
The hallway has a deep store cupboard, access to the ground floor public apartments and stairs to the upper level.
In the lounge is a front-facing bay window formation, a display wall press and a fire surround with a gas fire.
The dining room has space for formal dining table and chairs with a rear-facing window formation and entry to a deep
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The kitchen has a range of white gloss fronted cupboards with an ample worktop surface above.
There is a double-size bedroom on the ground floor level of the property and a spacious family bathroom. On the upper floor of the property, there is a central reception hallway and two spacious double bedrooms both with double glazed bay windows and one has wardrobe storage. Offers over £199,000 are being invited. To find our more visit www. corumproperty.co.uk or call 01505 691400.
You can also visit Corum in person at 2 Windsor Place, Bridge of Weir. Consumers are twice as likely to be very satisfied with the quality of their new home if it was built by a small and medium-sized (SME) house builder, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).
Their research into satisfaction rates among people who bought a home in the past five years shows 36 per cent of buyers were happy with the quality of their new-build home if bought from an SME builder, compared with those whose home was built by one of the top 20 large builders (17 per cent).
Brian Berry, chief executive of the FMB, said: “This research draws a clear distinction between what is being delivered by SMEs and what is being delivered by larger firms.”