Listed for £1,195,000
May 16, 2025
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The first floor is home to the outstanding principal bedroom suite, which runs the full easternmost end of the house to capitalise on the morning sun. It has a spacious en suite bathroom with a freestanding bath with a characterful porthole window behind it, and separate shower. There is also an en suite dressing room set into the side turret. There is a further double bedroom on this level, taking the total number of bedrooms to five, with the study included.
The gardens at Cowden House are truly spectacular, and extend to about 3.9 acres in all. The principal garden sits to the front of the house, overlooked by the terrace outside the new extension. Beyond the lawn is a summerhouse with a covered timber decked terrace. This is a special place for outdoor dining and entertaining while enjoying views of the gardens. A further flagstone terrace enclosed by low stone walls sits to the east of the house, with a door into the kitchen. The gardens are provided with shelter and privacy by a variety of mature broadleaf and evergreen trees, including a spectacular copper beech. To the front of the house is a large parking area, overlooked by a double garage, and a hand built, high spec and technology-driven Cultivar greenhouse, installed in 2022. There is also a potting shed and tool store, and a partially walled kitchen garden with three raised beds.
The remains of the original entrance arch for the Cowden Castle estate, including a turreted folly, sit in the upper garden, providing a characterful backdrop above the house. Beyond here is an expanse of lawn, with mature woodland behind it to the north of the property, offering lovely nature walks.
Location
Cowden House sits in a beautiful rural setting, about two miles from the picturesque and highly sought after town of Dollar. The town has an excellent range of services and amenities, including a grocery store, bakery, delicatessen and wine shop. It also has a post office, health centre, dentist and newsagent in addition to several specialist shops, cafés, a pub and a restaurant. Dollar is best known for its long established Academy, which is often billed as one of Scotland’s most respected independent schools. There is also Strathdevon Primary School in the town. Other private schools within reach include Strathallan at Bridge of Earn and the Fairview International School in Bridge of Allan.
Dollar has a vibrant and friendly local community with a variety of sports and arts clubs as well as youth groups. The tennis and squash clubs are both particularly popular and there are golf courses locally at Dollar and Muckhart. The world-renowned golf courses and leisure facilities at Gleneagles Hotel are only about 12 miles away. For those who enjoy the outdoors there are wonderful walks to be enjoyed locally in the Ochil Hills while the more dramatic hills and lochs of Perthshire sit further to the north.
Cowden House is very accessible with excellent commuter links to the major centres of Stirling (13.5 miles), Perth (24 miles), Edinburgh (31 miles) and Glasgow (35 miles), all within easy reach. Edinburgh International Airport is 33 miles away, and Glasgow Airport is 45.5 miles. Halbeath Park and Ride is only 16 miles away, and offers regular services into Edinburgh, as does Inverkeithing railway station (18 miles), which runs commuter services to Edinburgh’s stations at Waverley, Haymarket as well as Edinburgh Gateway and Edinburgh Park.
All distances are approximate.
Square Footage: 4,093 sq ft
Acreage: 3.9 Acres
Additional Info
Services - Mains water and electricity. Private drainage to septic tank. Central heating by LPG fuelled boiler.
Local Authority & tax band - Clackmannanshire Council tax band H
Listing - The folly and connecting wall in the garden are Category C Listed. They are remains of what was part of Cowden Castle’s estate. According to Historic Environment Scotland, “Site of house built 1320 by William Lambert, Archbishop of St. Andrews; remains a moulded 16th century entrance arch with bar-hole set in a wall of circa 1800 with twin gothic recesses, crenelated at top, with crenelated octagonal turret at south end of same date.”
Driveway - The neighbouring property has a right of access over the drive from the main road which is owned by Cowden House. The maintenance costs are split between both houses.
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Fixtures & Fittings - All fitted curtains, carpets, blinds, light fittings and integrated white goods are included in the sale. The island in the kitchen is not fixed, but is included in the sale.
Servitude rights, burdens and wayleaves - The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all servitude rights, burdens, reservations and wayleaves, including rights of access and rights of way, whether public or private, light, support, drainage, water and wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cable, drains and water, gas and other pipes, whether contained in the Title Deeds or informally constituted and whether referred to in the General Remarks and Stipulations or not. The Purchaser(s) will be held to have satisfied himself as to the nature of all such servitude rights and others.
Photographs: MAY 2025
Brochure Code: 250513