House For Sale £500,000
Castle Street, Dornoch IV25

The Old Bank House was built in 1893 by the
County Clerk of Sutherland, John Leslie. He incorporated offices for himself and a bank. The house is a handsome well-presented sandstone family home offering just under 4,200 sq. Ft. Of light-filled flexible accommodation arranged over two floors with period features including high ceilings and fine cornicing throughout.

The property offers the prospective purchaser
an opportunity to continue the existing B & B/
self catering business or to return the house to
private use as a spacious family home. The main
house ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall accessible from the
garden aspects and includes a spacious sitting
room with feature fireplace, a large wooden floored kitchen/dining room with a selection of units, a range cooker, modern integrated
appliances, space for a sizeable dining table, a
door to the side aspect, a rear hall/utility area
with useful cloakroom and access to the garden.
The ground floor accommodation is completed
by a spacious, at present self catering area,
comprising private entrance into a reception hall, large sitting room with feature fireplace, fitted kitchen/diner with range cooker and a utility room. From the hall there is a bedroom with large en suite bathroom with spa bath and walk-in spa shower and a walk in wardrobe.

From the main house garden entrance door
through a wide archway there is an elegant late
Victorian staircase in pitch pine which leads to
the first floor letting rooms. This offers a large
principal bedroom with double aspect windows
and en suite with Jacuzzi bath and separate
walk-in shower. Three further bedrooms with
en suite bathrooms. A second staircase from
the ground floor leads to a rear aspect study/
bedroom with en suite shower.

Lying on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth,
Dornoch is a former royal burgh and seaside
town in the Highlands of Scotland. The town
offers a good range of amenities including a
cathedral, independent shopping, numerous
bars, cafés and restaurants, Co-op and Spar
stores and services. There is a medical centre
and a nursery, primary and secondary school
campus. The area offers a range of outdoor
pursuits including miles of white sandy beaches
and two links golf courses, one being Royal
Dornoch, ranked No. 10 in the World Top 100
Courses. Nearby Tain also offers a wide range of
shops, cafés and restaurants and is home to the
famed Glenmorangie Distillery.

Communications links are excellent: The nearby
A9 gives easy access to Inverness, Tain station
offers regular direct services to Inverness and
onward connections to Edinburgh, Glasgow and
London.

The property is approached through twin
iron gates bounded by wrought railings to a
tarmacadam driveway providing private parking.
The well-maintained enclosed garden to the
side and rear of the property is laid mainly to
lawn bordered by mature trees, topiary and
shrubs and to the rear features a wraparound
paved terrace, ideal for entertaining.