House For Sale £585,000
• A fine, grand, Victorian House (1865).
• Approximately 244m2 (2,625ft2).
• Formerly the home of Sir William Burrell.
• Southerly views over The River Clyde.
• Extensively improved since acquired by clients in 2007.
• Excellent Dining Kitchen alteration/extension (2008) with outside Balcony Deck.
• Four Public Rooms including wonderful original Drawing Room.
• Four Bedrooms, Boxroom, Bathroom (ensuite), Shower Room.
• Laundry Room. Cellar with four rooms/areas.
• Gas central heating. Alarm. Double Garage.
• Sizeable garden (approximately third acre).
• Bowling – home to Bowling Basin Marina and Forth and Clyde Canal.
• Great location for commuting (nearby A82, Bowling Railway Station).
Elmbank is a handsome Detached, sandstone, Victorian House (1865) positioned at the end of a discreetly located little road in the Village of Bowling, located between the towns of Old Kilpatrick and Dumbarton. Set to the north of The River Clyde its elevated setting, at the head of its garden, affords fine southerly aspects over The Clyde and beyond its southern shores towards Erskine and Mar Hall Golf Courses. Distant views are afforded to the Renfrewshire Hills, the Kilpatrick Hills providing a northerly backdrop to Bowling itself.
Our clients acquired Elmbank in 2007 and immediately set upon a significant programme of upgrading which included a successful integration of former ancillary rooms (Larder, Boiler Room, WC, and Maid’s Room), plus extension, to create the brilliant Dining Kitchen one sees now. Ata Studio Architects were commissioned to undertake the design work in 2008 and the result creates the ‘heart of the home’ that nearly all families keenly seek. Contemporary sanitaryware was fitted to both the Shower Room (ground floor) and the Bathroom (first floor) where the latter provides an ensuite arrangement to Bedroom 2. A new gas central heating system was installed (all pipes and radiators) in 2008. Since then, the boilers have been renewed again (2017 & 2018)– the house has a two-boiler system, one to service each floor. The house is alarmed.
Our clients, drawn to the house 15 years ago due to both its excellent base for commuting (car and rail), and for the property’s wonderful original features and character, have decorated the subjects with taste and empathy to its origins. Almost all rooms have working shutters, there are four fireplaces (three original marble we understand, two painted) and in many areas, beautiful plaster cornice work. All this exhibits most proudly in Elmbank’s stunning first floor Drawing Room – a simply beautiful room.
The accommodation falls over ground and first floors but there is a clever access, from the kitchen to an extremely useful cellar level (see floor plan). Generously proportioned, the main accommodation of Elmbank extends to some 244m2 (2,625ft2), the cellar level some 43m2 (463ft2).
Ground Floor
• Entrance Vestibule – With a substantial storm door and original mosaic tiled floor.
• Hall – A grand space and staircase.
• Lounge – A day-to-day living room with bay window to the south. Suspected marble fireplace(painted)with a living flame coal effect gas fire.
• Dining Room – A lovely room with double aspect (south and east). Currently used as a bedroom. Reproduction Adam style fireplace. Elaborate ceiling cornice.
• Study – North and east aspects. The fitted bookshelves will be included.
• Dining Kitchen – A splendid room, the dining area a contemporary space with full height glass walls, and door, on two sides and an exposed stone wall to the third. The door provides access to an impressively designed sun deck/balcony overlooking the rear garden and providing aspects over The Clyde. Kitchen units are Shaker design (cream coloured) and have granite worksurfaces and upstands. Centrally, there is a metal topped unit/worksurface that contains the cleverly designed door/hatch access to the cellar level. Appliances in the kitchen include a black Rangemaster stove with five gas hobs, Rangemaster cooker hood, dishwasher by John Lewis, American style fridge freezer by Daewoo (water and ice dispenser).
• Sun Deck Balcony – Very imaginatively designed and wrapping around the dining area glazed walls. There are designed galvanised steel ‘fin’ balustrade that continues to a staircase that takes one down to the property’s rear garden. Providing a wind shelter is a glass screen to the northerly side of the deck.
• Laundry Room – Cabinets, wall shelves, laundry pulley, Samsung washing machine. The boilers are in this room.
• Bedroom 4 – A ground floor double bedroom with window to the north.
• Shower Room – Three-piece contemporary white suite with a large shower enclosure featuring a thermostatic shower. Towel radiator.
First Floor
• Staircase – The original stone staircase (painted and carpeted), with original iron balustrade (painted) and wooden handrails ascends past a half landing window to the upper hall.
• Hall – With deep store cupboard.
• Drawing Room – What a room. Amazing ceiling. South facing bay window with wonderful views across The Clyde. Grey marble fireplace with open fire.
• Bedroom 1 – South facing. Suspected marble fireplace that has been painted.
• Bedroom 2 – North facing. Free standing Ikea wardrobes here. This bedroom has an en-suite facility to the family bathroom.
• Bathroom – With doors to Bedroom 2 (ensuite) and to the hall. Similar in design to the shower room downstairs. Towel radiator.
• Bedroom 3 – Another generous double bedroom with south aspect.
• Boxroom – Side window to the east. A useful little room that could make a small Study/Computer Nook.
Cellar Level
• Accessed from the kitchen, a staircase leads directly into the first of four rooms. This and another are sizeable general stores, one is a Wine Cellar, and the final room is a drylined storeroom with central heating radiator. This room also has a hatch door to access the remainder of Elmbank’s sub floor.
Central Heating
• There is a mains gas central heating system with two boilers (one for each floor of the house). One is a Vokera Mynute 35HE, the other is a Mynute i30. Both are system boilers. There is a large capacity (300 litre) Santon Premier Plus unvented hot water cylinder for hot water. All serviced annually.
Alarm
• The security alarm system is a monitored system and serviced annually.
Double Garage
• A detached double garage with power, light and water tap installed. Window and access door to the rear garden. Set at the end of a tarmac drive providing off-road parking for three cars.
Garden
• The garden extends to approximately a third of an acre, most of which lies to the southerly side of the house where it slopes downwards to the foot of the plot. The garden off Manse Road is screened by an original stone garden wall into which is set three sets of modern gates – one a double width driveway gate, the others two pedestrian gates. There is a small lawn to the front with attractive border planting and a ‘secret’ patio tucked away behind the garage and the front wall. The side garden has a patio outside of the study. By this is a shrubbery and an area of grass that slopes. The east boundary has high hedge and fencing and there are established mature trees for privacy.
• The rear garden is most of the ground and lies to grass. The immediate area to the house is level and this then slopes to the foot of the plot where there is an iron fence/railing. A fence makes a boundary to the east and a stone wall to the west beside which are wooden steps leading down the garden. A variety of trees provide interest and screening.
Council Tax Band G
EPC Band D
Freehold
Bowling
The village of Bowling has a Railway Station on the North Clyde Line providing regular services to Glasgow’s West End and City Centre (Queen Street) as well as westbound to Dumbarton and on to Helensburgh. Schooling is at Gavinburn Primary (Old Kilpatrick) and Clydebank High School. Glasgow is noted for the quality of its private independent schooling (High School of Glasgow, Glasgow Academy, Kelvinside Academy and St Aloysius with Helensburgh home to Lomond School. In Kilmacolm, easily reached via the Erskine Bridge, is St Columbus). Bowling is just off the A82 Great Western Road which provides a ready dual carriageway link to Glasgow north and the West End or via the nearby Erskine Bridge to the south of The River Clyde. Glasgow City Centre is approximately 18 miles via the Erskine Bridge (no traffic lights) and some 12 miles via Great Western Road. The West End is 11 miles away, Erskine Bridge only 4 miles and Glasgow Airport some 11 miles.
Forth and Clyde Canal and the National Cycle Route
The Forth and Clyde Canal connects central Scotland and runs from Grangemouth in the East to Bowling Basin in the West. And joined by the Union Canal at Falkirk. Operated by Scottish Canals it passes through some of Scotland’s Industrial Heritage as well as wonderful expanses of rural corridors. In addition to the Canal providing a route for boats its towpath provides some 35 miles of easy terrain for walkers, runners, and cyclists. Bowling Basin (or Marina) is the Western Gateway to the Canal and is fast developing into a lovely leisure and tourist destination. Through it passes National Cycle Route 7 which also runs past the southern boundary of Elmbank’s garden. Route 7 takes you through, and to, some of Scotland’s most dramatic scenery including Loch Lomond as well as eastbound into Glasgow City.
Sir William Burrell
William Burrell was a Shipping Magnate, running the family business, with his brother, following the death of their father. William Burrell was one of the world’s greatest art collectors, the sale of the Burrell Fleet enabling him to fully concentrate on his passion. The splendid culmination of his efforts is Glasgow’s newly refurbished Burrell Collection at Pollock Country Park (). Sir William’s parents, William and Isabella, owned Elmbank and young William lived there from is late teenage years (1878) to his early 30s (1892).
Sat Nav Ref: G60 5AA – On travelling into Bowling, pay heed for Manse Road as it is tucked away off the Main Road. Manse Road is not particularly wide. Elmbank is the last house on the left-hand side. On arriving by car continue into the country lane at the end of Manse Road whereupon you will find a turning bay thereafter. One can make a turn here and come back down Manse Road parking on the left-hand side opposite the gates to Elmbank.
EPC Rating: D
Council Tax Band: G
• Approximately 244m2 (2,625ft2).
• Formerly the home of Sir William Burrell.
• Southerly views over The River Clyde.
• Extensively improved since acquired by clients in 2007.
• Excellent Dining Kitchen alteration/extension (2008) with outside Balcony Deck.
• Four Public Rooms including wonderful original Drawing Room.
• Four Bedrooms, Boxroom, Bathroom (ensuite), Shower Room.
• Laundry Room. Cellar with four rooms/areas.
• Gas central heating. Alarm. Double Garage.
• Sizeable garden (approximately third acre).
• Bowling – home to Bowling Basin Marina and Forth and Clyde Canal.
• Great location for commuting (nearby A82, Bowling Railway Station).
Elmbank is a handsome Detached, sandstone, Victorian House (1865) positioned at the end of a discreetly located little road in the Village of Bowling, located between the towns of Old Kilpatrick and Dumbarton. Set to the north of The River Clyde its elevated setting, at the head of its garden, affords fine southerly aspects over The Clyde and beyond its southern shores towards Erskine and Mar Hall Golf Courses. Distant views are afforded to the Renfrewshire Hills, the Kilpatrick Hills providing a northerly backdrop to Bowling itself.
Our clients acquired Elmbank in 2007 and immediately set upon a significant programme of upgrading which included a successful integration of former ancillary rooms (Larder, Boiler Room, WC, and Maid’s Room), plus extension, to create the brilliant Dining Kitchen one sees now. Ata Studio Architects were commissioned to undertake the design work in 2008 and the result creates the ‘heart of the home’ that nearly all families keenly seek. Contemporary sanitaryware was fitted to both the Shower Room (ground floor) and the Bathroom (first floor) where the latter provides an ensuite arrangement to Bedroom 2. A new gas central heating system was installed (all pipes and radiators) in 2008. Since then, the boilers have been renewed again (2017 & 2018)– the house has a two-boiler system, one to service each floor. The house is alarmed.
Our clients, drawn to the house 15 years ago due to both its excellent base for commuting (car and rail), and for the property’s wonderful original features and character, have decorated the subjects with taste and empathy to its origins. Almost all rooms have working shutters, there are four fireplaces (three original marble we understand, two painted) and in many areas, beautiful plaster cornice work. All this exhibits most proudly in Elmbank’s stunning first floor Drawing Room – a simply beautiful room.
The accommodation falls over ground and first floors but there is a clever access, from the kitchen to an extremely useful cellar level (see floor plan). Generously proportioned, the main accommodation of Elmbank extends to some 244m2 (2,625ft2), the cellar level some 43m2 (463ft2).
Ground Floor
• Entrance Vestibule – With a substantial storm door and original mosaic tiled floor.
• Hall – A grand space and staircase.
• Lounge – A day-to-day living room with bay window to the south. Suspected marble fireplace(painted)with a living flame coal effect gas fire.
• Dining Room – A lovely room with double aspect (south and east). Currently used as a bedroom. Reproduction Adam style fireplace. Elaborate ceiling cornice.
• Study – North and east aspects. The fitted bookshelves will be included.
• Dining Kitchen – A splendid room, the dining area a contemporary space with full height glass walls, and door, on two sides and an exposed stone wall to the third. The door provides access to an impressively designed sun deck/balcony overlooking the rear garden and providing aspects over The Clyde. Kitchen units are Shaker design (cream coloured) and have granite worksurfaces and upstands. Centrally, there is a metal topped unit/worksurface that contains the cleverly designed door/hatch access to the cellar level. Appliances in the kitchen include a black Rangemaster stove with five gas hobs, Rangemaster cooker hood, dishwasher by John Lewis, American style fridge freezer by Daewoo (water and ice dispenser).
• Sun Deck Balcony – Very imaginatively designed and wrapping around the dining area glazed walls. There are designed galvanised steel ‘fin’ balustrade that continues to a staircase that takes one down to the property’s rear garden. Providing a wind shelter is a glass screen to the northerly side of the deck.
• Laundry Room – Cabinets, wall shelves, laundry pulley, Samsung washing machine. The boilers are in this room.
• Bedroom 4 – A ground floor double bedroom with window to the north.
• Shower Room – Three-piece contemporary white suite with a large shower enclosure featuring a thermostatic shower. Towel radiator.
First Floor
• Staircase – The original stone staircase (painted and carpeted), with original iron balustrade (painted) and wooden handrails ascends past a half landing window to the upper hall.
• Hall – With deep store cupboard.
• Drawing Room – What a room. Amazing ceiling. South facing bay window with wonderful views across The Clyde. Grey marble fireplace with open fire.
• Bedroom 1 – South facing. Suspected marble fireplace that has been painted.
• Bedroom 2 – North facing. Free standing Ikea wardrobes here. This bedroom has an en-suite facility to the family bathroom.
• Bathroom – With doors to Bedroom 2 (ensuite) and to the hall. Similar in design to the shower room downstairs. Towel radiator.
• Bedroom 3 – Another generous double bedroom with south aspect.
• Boxroom – Side window to the east. A useful little room that could make a small Study/Computer Nook.
Cellar Level
• Accessed from the kitchen, a staircase leads directly into the first of four rooms. This and another are sizeable general stores, one is a Wine Cellar, and the final room is a drylined storeroom with central heating radiator. This room also has a hatch door to access the remainder of Elmbank’s sub floor.
Central Heating
• There is a mains gas central heating system with two boilers (one for each floor of the house). One is a Vokera Mynute 35HE, the other is a Mynute i30. Both are system boilers. There is a large capacity (300 litre) Santon Premier Plus unvented hot water cylinder for hot water. All serviced annually.
Alarm
• The security alarm system is a monitored system and serviced annually.
Double Garage
• A detached double garage with power, light and water tap installed. Window and access door to the rear garden. Set at the end of a tarmac drive providing off-road parking for three cars.
Garden
• The garden extends to approximately a third of an acre, most of which lies to the southerly side of the house where it slopes downwards to the foot of the plot. The garden off Manse Road is screened by an original stone garden wall into which is set three sets of modern gates – one a double width driveway gate, the others two pedestrian gates. There is a small lawn to the front with attractive border planting and a ‘secret’ patio tucked away behind the garage and the front wall. The side garden has a patio outside of the study. By this is a shrubbery and an area of grass that slopes. The east boundary has high hedge and fencing and there are established mature trees for privacy.
• The rear garden is most of the ground and lies to grass. The immediate area to the house is level and this then slopes to the foot of the plot where there is an iron fence/railing. A fence makes a boundary to the east and a stone wall to the west beside which are wooden steps leading down the garden. A variety of trees provide interest and screening.
Council Tax Band G
EPC Band D
Freehold
Bowling
The village of Bowling has a Railway Station on the North Clyde Line providing regular services to Glasgow’s West End and City Centre (Queen Street) as well as westbound to Dumbarton and on to Helensburgh. Schooling is at Gavinburn Primary (Old Kilpatrick) and Clydebank High School. Glasgow is noted for the quality of its private independent schooling (High School of Glasgow, Glasgow Academy, Kelvinside Academy and St Aloysius with Helensburgh home to Lomond School. In Kilmacolm, easily reached via the Erskine Bridge, is St Columbus). Bowling is just off the A82 Great Western Road which provides a ready dual carriageway link to Glasgow north and the West End or via the nearby Erskine Bridge to the south of The River Clyde. Glasgow City Centre is approximately 18 miles via the Erskine Bridge (no traffic lights) and some 12 miles via Great Western Road. The West End is 11 miles away, Erskine Bridge only 4 miles and Glasgow Airport some 11 miles.
Forth and Clyde Canal and the National Cycle Route
The Forth and Clyde Canal connects central Scotland and runs from Grangemouth in the East to Bowling Basin in the West. And joined by the Union Canal at Falkirk. Operated by Scottish Canals it passes through some of Scotland’s Industrial Heritage as well as wonderful expanses of rural corridors. In addition to the Canal providing a route for boats its towpath provides some 35 miles of easy terrain for walkers, runners, and cyclists. Bowling Basin (or Marina) is the Western Gateway to the Canal and is fast developing into a lovely leisure and tourist destination. Through it passes National Cycle Route 7 which also runs past the southern boundary of Elmbank’s garden. Route 7 takes you through, and to, some of Scotland’s most dramatic scenery including Loch Lomond as well as eastbound into Glasgow City.
Sir William Burrell
William Burrell was a Shipping Magnate, running the family business, with his brother, following the death of their father. William Burrell was one of the world’s greatest art collectors, the sale of the Burrell Fleet enabling him to fully concentrate on his passion. The splendid culmination of his efforts is Glasgow’s newly refurbished Burrell Collection at Pollock Country Park (). Sir William’s parents, William and Isabella, owned Elmbank and young William lived there from is late teenage years (1878) to his early 30s (1892).
Sat Nav Ref: G60 5AA – On travelling into Bowling, pay heed for Manse Road as it is tucked away off the Main Road. Manse Road is not particularly wide. Elmbank is the last house on the left-hand side. On arriving by car continue into the country lane at the end of Manse Road whereupon you will find a turning bay thereafter. One can make a turn here and come back down Manse Road parking on the left-hand side opposite the gates to Elmbank.
EPC Rating: D
Council Tax Band: G
