(Caldwell) Springfield

Balblair, Dingwall, Highland, IV7 8LE

Offers Over £350,000

2.81 acres

Bedroom Count icon 4

Reception Count icon 1

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  • A charming, detached cottage with attached steading.
  • Four Bedrooms. One Reception Room.
  • Requiring a degree of modernisation but retaining many original features.
  • Well-tended garden.
  • Mature mixed woodland and paddock.
  • Attached steading with development potential.
  • Beautiful countryside and mountain views.
  • About 1.14 hectares (2.81 acres) in all.

The property is situated in the scattered farming community of Resolis, near Balblair on the Black Isle, a peninsula north of Inverness. A general store can be found in the nearby village of Culbokie which also has a popular Inn serving food and beverages. The nearby coastal villages of Fortrose and Cromarty have a good range of independent shops, restaurants and amenities, while Inverness about 30 minutes’ drive away, has all the facilities of a modern city including its airport with regular flights to the south and Europe. Primary schooling is available at Resolis Primary School and secondary schooling at the highly regarded Fortrose Academy with a free school bus available. The Black Isle has fertile rolling countryside with a beautiful coastline of raised beaches and prominent headlands. The area has a number of way-marked cycle trails and walks, while the coastal villages offer sheltered harbours, and Fortrose has a historic links golf course. The cottage is in an ideal setting to enjoy the best the area has to offer with regular sightings of deer and red kites, beautiful walks and the nearby RSPB Udale Nature Reserve.A charming former farm cottage believed to originate from the early 1800’s the property is in a stunning setting on the popular Black Isle with views to the rear over the neighbouring farmland reaching to the hills and mountains of Easter Ross. The property has been in the same ownership for 45 years and although requiring a degree of modernisation has well proportioned, versatile accommodation spread over two floors. Appealing to a wide range of purchasers including those with an interest in acquiring a property with smallholding potential, the cottage has a useful attached stone and timber-built steading under a corrugated iron roof, which could hold the possibility for conversion subject to gaining the relevant consents. Viewing is by prior appointment only through the Selling Agents, Galbraith