Rose Hill Cottage 20 Hillside Terrace, Selkirk, The Scottish Borders, TD7 4LT
Offers Over £280,000

Rose Hill Cottage is a charming 3 bed detached period (circa 1870) property, ideally suited as a family home, set back from the road and located just a stone’s throw from the High School. Full of character and benefiting from several pleasing features, which really must be seen to appreciate fully, the accommodation is comfortably sized and well presented, with an unusually spacious garden room - reached from the breakfasting kitchen, enhancing the living space and creating great flexibility. The delightful mature enclosed gardens to front sides and rear come into their own during the summer months and are a good size but relatively easily kept. The house is fitted with gas central heating, the sitting room and kitchen both have log burners, the windows are predominantly double glazed and there are good storage facilities.

Positioned around six miles from Railway stations in either Galashiels or Tweedbank, both providing a regular train service to Edinburgh with free parking at Tweedbank, Selkirk enjoys excellent access to Edinburgh and other Border towns via the A7 and is well served by public transport. There are lovely riverside walks along the Ettrick River as well as recreational amenities including the Leisure Centre, rugby ground, cricket club and nearby Golf course.

The accommodation consists of:- Hall, Sitting Room with fireplace, stylish Breakfasting Kitchen, Garden Room, Shower Room, Utility Room. Three Bedrooms, Bathroom. Two large eaves cupboards. Useful deep under eaves ledge, large enough for small desk.

Externally, the house is enclosed to the front by a stone wall for privacy, with a gate leading into the garden. The exterior photographs used were taken in the summertime (June 2023) and demonstrate just how lovely the garden is when the trees are in leaf and the flowers and shrubs in bloom. A large timber outbuilding, which could suit as a small garage, is split to give shed and workshop areas, and additionally there is a summer house, a greenhouse and a tool store. Off road parking is available to the front.

Edinburgh 43 miles. Tweedbank 7 miles. Melrose 8 miles. Hawick 10.7 miles. Galashiels 6 miles.
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EPC : D56

Council Tax Band : D

Location:

Selkirk is a popular and bustling market town, situated on the banks of the Ettrick Water, and caters well for every day needs with a good selection of independent shops, hotels and pubs plus a Co-op supermarket and several places to eat. Local tourist attractions include Bowhill House and Country Park, Ian Stark Equestrian Centre, Philiphaugh Visitor Centre and Abbotsford House, the former home of Sir Walter Scott, with its award-winning visitor centre. Local sports teams include Selkirk Rugby Football Club and Selkirk Cricket Club and there is also a swimming pool, and a nine-hole golf course not far from the house. Local festivals include the historic Common Ridings held in the summer which is of particular note.

Selkirk sits in an easily accessible area and can be reached by the A7 which runs through the town and provides links to Edinburgh or the north of England. The area is also served by the Borders Railway which runs from Tweedbank to Edinburgh, with a station in Galashiels and the terminus in Tweedbank, both of which are approximately six miles away, the latter offering free parking. There is also a bus service, which passes through the town and runs from the Interchange in Galashiels with links to Carlisle in the South, as well as Edinburgh in the North and the other Border towns.

Directions:

For those with satellite navigation the postcode for the property is: TD7 4LT. Travelling North bound into Selkirk on the A7, Rose Hill Cottage (20 Hillside Terrace) sits on the left hand side of the road, just before the High School on the right. From the town centre southbound, it is on the right just before the junction with Taits Hill.