Accommodation

First Floor

Private staircase and entrance.

Hall, Drawing Room, kitchen.

Four bedrooms and two bathrooms

Outside Space

Private garden

Off street parking to rear of the property

Private Garage.

Description

This is a handsome red sandstone Victorian detached property on one of Inverleith’s most desirable streets. With its spacious open feel and views over the Botanics, the apartment offers a solid and attractive stone property in a prime location. 

Entry is to the side, up stone steps to the front door, flanked by flower beds and shared with only one other apartment. Once inside, a carpeted wide solid staircase illuminated by a window leads up to the apartment.

Hall

The solid timber door leads directly into a light and welcoming hall which has a large stained-glass window to the east. Rooms lead off the nicely proportioned square hall.

Drawing Room

Directly on the right-hand side is the south facing Drawing Room. With its original parquet floor, beautiful classic fireplace with copper hearth, panelled walls and a triple bay window overlooking the Botanics as well as two further windows, one to the front and one to the west, this is a wonderfully atmospheric reception room boasting so many period features.

Double Bedroom One / Living Room 

Also overlooking the Botanics and light with great proportions, this room could be used as a sitting room or as a bedroom as it is now. Period fireplace. Carpeted.

Double Bedroom with ensuite bathroom

Double bedroom to the rear. Walk in cupboard. Secondary glazing. Enormous ensuite bathroom with bath and shower. Requiring modernisation.

Hall Cupboard for storage

Kitchen

A semi glazed door leads to the kitchen. The kitchen has a mixture of wall mounted and undercounter units, Linoleum floor as well as a cupboard housing the recently installed Worcester boiler. Gas cooker and Neff Oven. In perfectly good working order but a buyer may wish to upgrade or move the kitchen altogether.

Family Bathroom

Bathroom with bath and white sanitary ware. Window to rear. Linoleum tile effect floor.

Carpeted stairs lead down to bedrooms three and four

One single and one double bedroom; one facing east and the other west.

Fitted wardrobes in both

Laundry Cupboard

Outside Space 

Side Garden

The side driveway to the property belongs to 30a and its neighbours whilst the front garden is under the ownership of the main door owners.

There is a private driveway for all three properties as well as three garages (one for each owner) and a parking area to the rear.

The main door to 30a is approached from the side, up three steps and flanked by attractive flower beds.

Private rear garden

To the rear of the property accessed by its own gate and crazy paving is the private garden owned by 30a. The garden is a substantial size, flat and light with a good area laid to lawn as well as borders and established beds to the sides. There is a privet hedge bordering the garden to one side and a wall on the other as well as mature trees giving privacy and seclusion. Summer house at the rear.

Situation

Inverleith Place is situated in an affluent and highly sought-after residential area, within easy walking distance of the City’s financial and business districts, abundant shopping establishments, boutiques and bars - and cosmopolitan Stockbridge, which is renowned for its village atmosphere, artisan shops, cafés and restaurants.

Inverleith is well served by Waitrose and Tesco supermarkets; highly regarded restaurants, cafés, independent shops and local producers at Goldenacre and Canonmills and a number of larger stores, including Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer, a short drive away at Craigleith Retail Park.

The property is situated close to the Royal Botanic Garden and a short distance from other recreational facilities and green spaces including Inverleith Park; the Grange Cricket, Tennis & Squash Club; Edinburgh Academicals Rugby Club; Westwoods Health Club; the Water of Leith Walkway and Edinburgh’s cycle network which links the City Centre to the coastline at Newhaven.

The property lies within the catchment area for highly regarded schools including Broughton Primary and Drummond High School with private schooling options including The Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College and Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools in close proximity. Inverleith Place benefits from easy access to the City’s efficient bus and tram services, Scotland’s Motorway Network, Waverley Station and Edinburgh’s international airport.

General Remarks:

Proof and Source of Funds / Anti Money Laundering

Under the HMRC Anti Money Laundering legislation all offers to purchase a property on a cash basis or subject to mortgage require evidence of source of funds. This may include evidence of bank statements/funding source, mortgage or confirmation from a solicitor the purchaser has the funds to conclude the transaction. All individuals involved in the transaction are required to produce proof of identity and proof of address. This is acceptable either as original or certified documents.

Fixtures and Fittings:

Only appliances specifically mentioned in the sales particulars are included in the sale price. In all other aspects the treatment of fixtures and fittings within the relevant Conveyancing Standard Clauses apply. Washing machine, tumble dryer, fridge freezer, curtains and light fittings to be included in the sale. Certain items of furniture available by negotiation.

Services:

Gas central heating, mains water, gas and electricity, broadband, telephone (subject to telephone providers’ regulations.)

Postcode:

EH3 5QB

Outgoings:

Council Tax Band Category: 

EPC:

Viewing:

By appointment through Rettie & Co, 11 Wemyss Place, Edinburgh EH3 6DH. Tel: 0131 220 4160.

Misrepresentations:

1.       The property is sold with all faults and defects, whether of condition or otherwise and neither the seller nor Rettie & Co, the selling agent, are responsible for such faults and defects, nor for any statement contained in the particulars of the property prepared by the said agent.

2.       The Purchaser(s) shall be deemed to acknowledge that he has not entered into contract in reliance on the said statements, that he has satisfied himself as to the content of each of the said statements by inspection or otherwise and that no warranty or representation has been made by the seller or the said agents in relation to or in connection with the property.

3.      Any error, omission or mis-statement in any of the said statements shall not entitle the purchaser(s) to rescind or to be discharged from this contract, nor entitle either party to compensation or damages nor in any circumstances to give either party any cause for action. 

Particulars prepared October 2022 – First Issue.