Lawhead Road East, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ND | Property for sale | Savills
195.47 sq m
Offers over £830,000(Rp16.918.638.943)

Lawhead Road EastSt. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ND

  • Sold

Key features

  • Sold in August 2023
  • Open plan layout with glazed internal doors & partitions
  • Sun room, kitchen & bathrooms
  • Garage & off street parking
  • Large, private garden

Superbly renovated detached house in excellent residential location

About this property

  • 13 Lawhead Road East is a two storey house which has been extended, updated and remodelled to create an outstanding family home for modern living.

    Works done include smartening up the front façade, adding Trespa Pura cladding to the sun room and creating a new principal bedroom suite. The main living space has been opened up with glazed internal doors giving exceptional natural light. The sun room is open plan to the kitchen / dining room and is divided from the main lounge by a retractable, glazed screen.

    There is Rondo solid oak flooring in the main ground floor rooms to complement the original parquet floor. The glazed doors are Suffolk oak veneer. The sun room has Velfac sliding doors to the garden. The kitchen is by Wren. The bathrooms have Duravit fittings.

    Accommodation

    Porch with tiled floor and glazed door to bright, central hall with understairs cupboard. Study (or bedroom 5) and shower room with electric shower.

    Lounge with log effect gas fire in fireplace with beam over. Retractable, glazed screen with door to L shaped kitchen / dining room / sun room. The Neff kitchen appliances include a 5 ring gas hob, integrated dishwasher and two ovens (one with a microwave facility). Freestanding Bosch fridge freezer. Dining area opening into sunroom with solid fuel stove. Velfac sliding doors.

    Off the kitchen is a side hall with doors to the garage and garden. Laundry cupboard with freestanding Zanussi washing machine, an ironing cupboard and a shelved larder.

    The garage has a roller door, fitted shelves, a sink and a Worcester central heating boiler.

    First floor landing. Principal bedroom overlooking garden with French doors and glass screen. Deep cupboard and built in wardrobes. En suite shower room.

    There are three further bedrooms, one with a fitted wardrobe and another with a built in shelved cupboard.

    Garden

    There is a Tegula cedar block paved parking area in front of the garage with a paved path to the front door. The front lawn is enclosed by a hedge and low wall. The paving continues around both sides of the house and leads into the back garden.

    The main garden is to the rear and is enclosed by a high hedge and fencing. There is Ecoscope Clarity graphite raised decking around the sunroom and a paved pathway. The large central lawn has rose beds and shrub borders around. At the bottom of the garden is a greenhouse and summer house. In the corner is a paved area with a wooden garden shed and a log store.

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My favourite part of this house is the fantastic open plan kitchen and dining space.

Jamie MacnabProperty agent

Local information

  • Lawhead Road East and Lawhead Road West are two streets which form a loop between Hepburn Gardens and Buchanan Gardens to the west of St Andrews. It is a quiet, residential area of detached and semi-detached houses in large gardens.
  • Madras College has moved to a new campus close by which is accessed by a footpath from Buchanan Gardens. The Lade Braes footpath is just off Hepburn Gardens to the north and is a delightful, woodland walkway which runs along the bank of the Kinness Burn from the edge of town all the way into the centre of St Andrews.
  • St Andrews is renowned worldwide as the 'Home of Golf'. There are seven golf courses under the management of the St Andrews Links Trust, including the Old Course, which played host to the 150th Open Championship in 2022. There are many other golf courses in the area including the Duke's Course, St Andrews Bay, Kingsbarns and Dumbarnie, along with traditional links courses at Elie and Crail.
  • St Andrews is also well known for its university which is one of the oldest in Britain, founded in 1413. The historic town has a good range of shops, hotels, restaurants and recreational and cultural facilities which include a cinema and The Byre Theatre. Beyond St Andrews is the East Neuk of Fife, with a spectacular coastline which boasts fishing villages built around picturesque harbours and sandy unspoilt beaches.
  • Access to St Andrews by rail, road and air is good. Leuchars railway station (6 miles) is on the main Aberdeen to London line and provides a fast link to Dundee and Edinburgh. Edinburgh Airport, with a wide range of domestic and international flights, is 50 miles away and Dundee Airport is 15 miles.

Additional information

  • Viewings: Strictly by appointment with Savills - 0131 247 3738
  • Solicitor: Sandy Grant, Thorntons Law LLP, Kinburn Castle, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DR Direct Dial: 01334 468617 Email: SGrant@thorntons-law.co.uk
  • Services: Mains water, electricity, gas and drainage. Central heating and hot water from gas fired boiler.
  • Solar Feed in Tariff: There is a feed in tariff for the solar panels on the roof. The payment for October 2021 to July 2022 was £950.
  • Local Authority & Tax Band: 13 Lawhead Road East is in Fife Council Tax Band G.
  • Fixtures & Fittings: The hanging light fittings in the sun room, lounge and on the stairs are excluded as is the wall light in the study.
  • Directions: From the centre of St Andrews drive east on Hepburn Gardens (B939). Continue on this road, taking the right fork onto Buchanan Gardens. Lawhead Road West is the second turning on the left hand side. Turn immediately left into Lawhead Road East. No 13 is on the left hand side of the street.
  • EPC Rating: D
  • Tenure: Freehold
  • Council Tax Band: G