The Old Schoolhouse, Tullynessle is a delightful country property situated in a wonderful rural location, some 3.5 miles north of Alford in Aberdeenshire and close to local amenities yet has easy access to Aberdeen City and the International Airport. As the name suggests, the house was built for the headmaster of the original Tullynessle School in the 1860's, and the ruins of the old village school remain today within the large garden. This area currently provides a lovely sheltered seating area and offers considerable potential having had previous planning permission granted.

The Old Schoolhouse is a most attractive house, granite built with a slate roof and a harled extension to the rear. The house has been thoroughly renovated in 2006 with a rear extension creating the magnificent open plan family room / dining which opens on to the kitchen, and the spacious principal bedroom with en suite above, now providing extensive and well-proportioned accommodation . The original part of the house still retains much of its original character and features, so marries the best of the old and the new.

ACCOMMODATION
A wooden front door opens to a welcoming hallway with access to the main reception rooms and the staircase to the first floor. The study is a lovely double aspect room which has a stone fireplace with Morso wood burning stove and wooden flooring. The sitting room is again another fine double aspect room with picture rail, cast iron fireplace with wooden mantel and wooden flooring. From here French doors lead to the dining room, currently used as a gym, with picture rail, cast iron fireplace with wooden mantel and tiled inserts, wooden flooring and links to both the hallway and the family room. The fabulous family / dining room has large glazed windows with French doors to the garden, a Chinese stone slate floor and a warming corner wood burning stove.

The well-appointed kitchen has wooden wall and floor units with granite worktops and a porcelain sink. Appliances include a Zanussi dishwasher, Rangemaster Toledo cooker with two ovens and a grill and a five ring ceramic hob, SMEG fridge freezer and an AEG four ring ceramic hob. There is a useful island unit / breakfast bar. Off the kitchen is the pantry with fitted storage units, Samsung fridge freezer with water and ice dispenser and a stone slate floor. Beyond is the laundry which has fitted storage units, sink, Grant boiler, plumbing for a washing machine and dryer and a clothes pulley. The back hall has a further entrance door, tiled floor and a cupboard housing a Camray Boulderus boiler. Opposite is a fully tiled shower room with shower cubicle, Roca washbasin with vanity unit and WC.

The staircase, with wooden balustrades and handrail, leads to the first floor landing. The family bathroom has a dado rail, bath, pedestal washbasin, WC and shower cubicle. There are four bedrooms in the front part of the house with bedrooms two and three having wooden floors, while bedroom four has fitted wardrobes. There is a useful store with hanging rails and shelves. To the rear is bedroom five - being the principal bedroom, which has lovely far reaching views, built in wardrobes and an en suite shower room with pedestal washbasin and WC.

The former stables have been converted into a very useful one bedroom apartment, which has considerable potential for Airbnb, or just as useful ancillary guest accommodation or as a home office. This is again stone built with a slate roof. Known as The Stables it has double opening doors with shutters to an open plan living / kitchen with fitted storage cupboards and an Elfin kitchen unit with sink, cooker, Russell Hobbs microwave and fridge with extractor, together with a tiled floor. Folding doors open to the bedroom which has an en suite shower with washbasin with vanity unit and WC. An attic ladder leads to a galleried loft area. Outside is a paved seating area.

Adjacent is a stone built and harled garage with a slate roof, power and light. In addition, there is a useful wooden garden shed, again with power and light, as well as lean to log stores. The gardens are sheltered and private, and mainly to lawn, with rhododendrons and trees. The ruins of the old school currently make a lovely paved seating and entertaining area. Immediately in front of the house is a paved terrace, overlooking the garden, while to the rear, and linked to the family room, is a further paved terrace, sheltered by a bank of rhododendrons.

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