OFFERS OVER £310k

AYR featured recently on the BBC2 television programme Escape to the Perfect Town as an example of a market town where desirable meets affordable to offer the best of town and country lifestyles. One of the properties highlighted was The Coach House, a charming circa-1870 converted former coach house on leafy Bellvue Avenue, only a 10 minute walk from the town centre and the beach, and easily commutable to Glasgow.

Combining character and kerb appeal, this two-storey property is deceptively spacious and with four bedrooms, two reception rooms, dining kitchen, cloakroom, bathroom and refitted master en-suite, it would suit family buyers, investors and downsizers

– the latter in particular, perhaps, given it also has an attached garage/utility and lowmaintenance, walled patio garden with a very pretty, detached garden sunroom. On the ground floor are living room with fireplace and door out to the garden, formal dining room – and the undoubted hero of the piece, a very bright kitchen with a large glazed roof section and dazzling contemporary units. The kitchen has doors to both the garden and into the attached garage, part of which serves as a utility and houses laundry appliances.

Upstairs, the dual aspect master bedroom impresses with an entire wall of built-in wardrobes and a super-stylish en suite shower room. There are three more double bedrooms (one with fitted storage) and a bathroom.

The enclosed patio garden and summerhouse/sunroom provide a picturesque finishing touch to this quirky and characterful home newly on the market with Slater Hogg & Howison in Ayr at offers over £310,000.

It is unsurprising that this attractive, historic home caught the eye of TV producers recently