Watch PropertyPiper's Croft, Killiecrankie PH16 5LW
5 Bed Detached Bungalow - Offers Over £440,000
Piper’s Croft is a desirable five-bedroom house situated in peaceful woodland to the north of Killiecrankie.
This attractive property is ideally suited as a family home but would also make a delightful holiday house.
It has a slightly elevated position with fields to the rear and benefits from having solar panels which generate power which is plugged into the National Grid. It has oil central heating and a stove in the living room which historically also heated the radiators and water.
The house is approached via a short driveway. There are several external entrances with the most convenient being to the side, adjacent to the garage. A corridor leads through to a doorway into the main body of the house.
There is a well proportioned dining room with an arched doorway through to the adjacent kitchen. This consists of a good range of wall and floor units with a breakfast bar, integrated electric oven, ceramic hob and dishwasher. This is turn leads through to a spacious living room with large windows to the southwest and views of the garden, trees and hills beyond. There is a stove set in a “Fyffestone” fireplace and built in shelving to the sides. A small garden room is accessed to the side and opens via patio doors onto a covered patio area.
A good sized utility room houses the oil-fired boiler, sink, additional kitchen units and a washing machine with space for additional white good as required.
To the opposite end of the house, there are two double bedrooms, one with built in wardrobe and the other, an L-shaped room which has been latterly used as an office. This room was originally split into two and has two doors into it, so a partition wall could easily be reinstated if desired. There is an attractive sun room which again looks out over the garden and views. The downstairs accommodation is completed by a fully tiled bathroom, consisting of a bath with electric shower over, WC, WHB in vanity unit and a heated towel rail.
A stair leads from the central hallway to the upper floor where there are two double bedrooms and a single bedroom and a shower room with shower cubicle, electric shower, WC and recessed WHB. The controls for the solar panels are in the cupboards within this room.
Externally, there is an integrated double garage with electric doors (Note - one door requires adjustment in order to be used)
The approach via the tarred driveway leads to a spacious parking area adjacent to the house and there is an old timber garage to the side of the driveway.
There is a large garden all round the house and is an attractive mixture of cultivated and woodlands zones. It is partially laid to lawn with many shrubs and trees. The rear boundary is lined with conifers and large boulders and there are hedges and a drying area. To the front there are steps down to the lower garden where there are a variety of trees.
Piper’s Croft is located just north of Killiecrankie so is not far from the Killiecrankie Visitor Centre where there is a cafe and easy access to the historic Soldier's Leap and the extensive network of footpaths and cycle ways.
Blair Atholl with its historic castle is three miles to the north and offers a village shop and train station with the House of Bruar a little beyond.
Pitlochry is a short drive to the south, where there are schools, shops, cafes, hotels and the famous Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Killiecrankie has a bus service to Pitlochry which itself connects by bus and train to the Central Belt to the south and Inverness to the north.
Directions
From our office in Pitlochry, travel north on the B8019 to Killiecrankie. Pass through the village and pass the national speed limit signs and continue onwards on a long straight section. As the road turns slightly to the right, watch for a sign indicating a turn off to the right, as you come to some houses immediately take the sharp turning to the right and double back up the hill. Ignore driveways on the right, continue up hill until the road turns sharply left, Piper’s Croft is immediately on the left through a tall gate and is clearly marked.
- EPC Rating: D
- Council Tax Band: G
- Tenure: Freehold
- PSPC Ref: 962337
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Pitlochry, Kenmore
HIGHLAND Perthshire is widely acknowledged to be among the most scenic areas Scotland has to offer, acting as the gateway to the Cairngorm National Park, where development is strictly controlled.
Pitlochry lies in the shadow of 2759 feet Ben Vrackie and has long been a key halt on the north-south route linking the Lowlands with the Highlands, with her railway station dating back to the Victorian era.
Villas and the occasional extravagant tower dot the hillside and while it thrives as a year-round holiday destination encouraged by the Theatre in the Hills, The Etape Caledonia and The Enchanted Forest, a strong sense of community endures.
Like Pitlochry, the nearby town of Aberfeldy boasts a distillery and its own secondary school, along with an impressive recreation centre. Poet Robert Burns Birks o Aberfeldy helped put the town on the tourist map.
Kenmore, a village which can justifiably lay claim to be the prettiest in Perthshire, is tucked between the expanse of Loch Tay and the river which emerges from it en route to the North Sea.
Dunkeld is instantly identifiable thanks to its 1809 Thomas Telford designed, seven arch bridge linking with Birnam on the southern bank of the Tay, a medieval cathedral and the cluster of restored whitewashed cottages around The Cross and ornate Atholl Memorial Fountain.
Properties in both Dunkeld and Birnam, which were by-passed by the A9 in the 1970s, tend to generate immediate interest when they come onto the market.
Many of them date back to 18th Century reconstruction demanded after all but a handful of older homes were destroyed by a battle in 1689.
Set within a National Scenic Area, theres no shortage of trails to explore, with The Hermitage and its magnificent trees and folly just a few miles up-river.
The railway station on the outskirts of Birnam provides an alternative to road links with Perth and the Royal School of Dunkeld can trace its history back 450 years and more.
Both villages have a thriving cultural scene and a visit to the pioneering Community Orchard near the bridge is always fruitful in the autumn months.
Stanley, near the River Tay, is one of the Big Countys planned villages, dating back to the 1780s.
It was developed on the back of the nearby six-storey cotton mills which provided local employment for nearly 200 years before finally shutting down in 1989. These listed buildings have been transformed from industrial heritage into in-demand apartments.
Nearby villages like Luncarty, four miles north of the Fair City, have been mushrooming - with the commute to Perth promising to be made even easier with ongoing A9 improvements.
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