Wellhill House is a most attractive country house, which benefits from an attached cottage to the rear, which could be incorporated into the main body of the house or used as a separate annexe as it is at present. The house also has enclosed gardens and paddocks which extend to some 1.58 acres. The earliest part of the house is at the back, believed to have once been a chapel or meeting place in which John Knox (1514-1572) may have preached. It is also thought that the house was built as a wedding present for a member of the Erskine family, who owned the nearby House of Dun from 1375 until 1980. The front part of the house was built later, as a farmhouse, and it is known that the property was used as a manager's house for the former Pugeston Brick Works, which closed in the 1950s.

It is an attractive house, arranged around a courtyard, with the attached cottage, known as Orchard Cottage. The front is stone-built, with the wing to the rear being brick-built. It has a slate roof and has benefitted from a number of improvements in recent years. The back part was refurbished just over 20 years ago, with both the side and courtyard porch being refurbished about ten years ago. A new en suite for the downstairs bedroom, which is currently used as a dining room, was put in some six years ago. The utility room has just been refurbished. The cottage was fully refurbished and extended in the late 1990s, with the en suite for bedroom 3 created some five years ago. The cottage is double glazed and could be used for holiday lets. Planning consent was granted in January 2019 (18/00790/FULL) to extend bedroom three.

ACCOMMODATION
A drive leads up to the side of the house, with gates into the courtyard, and also continues on to Orchard Cottage at the rear. From the front garden there is a porch with a tiled floor. The hallway has two wall lights, a staircase to the first floor and bamboo wooden flooring. To one side is a fine sitting room with a cornice, centre rose, two wall lights, open fireplace with a marble mantel on two stone lions and a multi fuel stove. Opposite is bedroom one, currently used as a dining room, which has a fireplace with wooden mantel and an en suite shower room with washbasin, WC, vanity unit and bidet. The fully fitted kitchen has wall and floor units with wooden worktops and display units, a Corian double sink, and a Stanley double oven range cooker with extractor which is set within a stone and tiled recess. There is ample space for informal dining and a beamed ceiling. The adjacent utility room has units, sink, Lamona fridge/freezer and washing machine, sun tube and door to a side porch with access to the garden. Also off the kitchen is a substantial double glazed courtyard porch linking to the courtyard. Beyond is the living room with a beamed ceiling, dado rail and a large Pugeston brick fireplace housing a multi fuel stove. There is a further porch with a partially glazed door to the garden, a wall light and a shower room with pedestal washbasin, WC and a tiled floor. From the living room steps lead up to an attic room and attic space beyond. Off the stairs is a WC with washbasin with vanity unit, storage units and a tiled floor. The stairs continue to a first floor landing. Bedrooms two and three both have period cast iron fireplaces with wooden mantels, with bedroom three also having a fitted wardrobe. The shower room has a washbasin with vanity unit, WC and tiled floor. The annexe has an impressive and fully fitted kitchen with wall and floor units. Appliances include a Whirlpool microwave, Leisure range cooker with five gas burners, griddle, double oven, grill and warming drawer, together with a Hotpoint dishwasher and Bosch washing machine. There is ample space for informal dining and a tiled floor. An opening leads through to the wood floored sitting room which has a fireplace with wooden mantel and brick surround housing a wood burner. A bedroom passageway leads to three bedrooms and a shower room with washbasin and WC. Bedroom one has a wooden floor, while bedroom two has fitted wardrobes and a glazed door to the courtyard. Bedroom three has an en suite with shower, washbasin, WC and a tiled floor.

GARDEN & GROUNDS
The garden in front of the house is enclosed by a stone dyke and comprises lawn with flower and shrub borders. To the side is another enclosed area of garden which again has lawn, flower and shrub borders, while at the back there is a block paved terrace adjacent to Orchard Cottage, together with further areas of garden with a pond, fruit trees and a block built potting shed. Within the brick paved courtyard is a store (2.95 m x 2.35 m approx.) and steps down into a store under the house. There are two paddocks with post and rail fencing, and both have low level field shelters (2.8 m x 2.2 m approx and 2.2 m x 2.3 m approx).

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