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FENWICK is a popular East Ayrshire village located just off the M77, only a ten minute-drive from The Avenue Shopping Centre and other amenities in the affluent suburb of Newton Mearns – a small compromise in exchange for being able to buy more house for your money.
Known historically for weaving, homes in the village are predominantly traditional terraced cottages with the more recent addition of modern detached villas. Situated at the end of a terraced row on Main Street, Parkend is the former genre, a traditional character cottage sympathetically improved to emphasise the original features associated with a home of this age and genre.
The cottage also has a less obvious special feature – a sizeable enclosed and landscaped rear garden housing a very pretty detached timber summer house with mains water, electricity and a paved patio.
For a home-based worker this could be an ideal office, although it could suit myriad alternative uses.
Configured over two levels, the cottage’s 16ft entrance hall leads to a dual aspect living room with an exposed stone fireplace wall (multi-fuel stove) and painted beamed ceiling, study, large bathroom with freestanding oval bath and at the end of the hall, a partially open-plan kitchen and family dining room with French door access to an adjacent flagged stone patio and garden beyond.
Stairs lead up to the first-floor landing, which houses two dormer bedrooms (both 19ft in length) and a beautifully appointed, fully tiled shower room with Velux window.
Velux/roof windows have been used
to great effect to supplement natural light throughout the cottage, an effect enhanced by the light contemporary décor.
Fitted with Shaker-style units and solid oak work surfaces, the kitchen is an obvious hub for family living and the dining/family area overlooks the garden on two sides.
The enclosed garden is a key feature comprising central lawn bordered by mature trees and shrubs with the addition of a terrace next to the kitchen – and a second terrace next to the 20ft summerhouse. Parkend also has a small enclosed front garden and is centrally situated within the village, which offers easy access onto Stewarton Road and the M77.
Ready to move into, this delightful character cottage is for sale at offers over £249,995 with MSM Solicitors/Estate Agents in Partick, Glasgow.