Place Farm, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, KA25

Place Farm is situated west of Kilbirnie town in North Ayrshire. It is nestled in the Garnock Valley with lovely elevated views, around 23 miles south west of Glasgow and approximately 15 miles from Glasgow Airport. Kilbirnie is well served with excellent local amenities including primary schooling, leisure club, library and a supermarket. Secondary schooling is available at the Garnock Community Campus which also has excellent leisure facilities including a swimming pool. The surrounding rolling Ayrshire countryside, offers a network of country lanes, ideal for walking, cycling and hacking, including Clyde Muirshiel Country Park (5 miles). More locally and adjacent to Place Farm is Kilbirnie Place Golf Club. Beith and Lochwinnoch both have courses available. Fishing is available at Kilbirnie Loch which is well stocked with rainbow and brown trout. There is also a waterski and wakeboard club. A passenger ferry ran across the loch at one time. There are excellent yachting facilities at the marinas at Largs, Ardrossan, Inverkip and Troon.

Place Farm is an attractive substantial two storey cream painted traditional Ayrshire farmhouse of stone and slate semi-detached construction with part felt roof. It is approached from the public road to a tarmac courtyard with parking for several vehicles. The accommodation internally provides versatile living space. On the ground floor, the entrance porch leads to the entrance hall which provides a dining room and open plan sitting room with tiled fireplace, living room with wood burning stove and slate hearth, large kitchen with fitted units, double sink, electric hob and double oven and space for dining area. There is a Rayburn range cooker (not presently working). There is also a useful utility room, downstairs cloakroom and shower room. Stairs lead to a generous bedroom (there is no heating presently in this room) above the kitchen and there are 3 further bedrooms on the first floor. One wing of the house contains a large barn and store which would suit a variety of different uses. The enclosed floor plan shows the accommodation layout.

The rear courtyard is down to tarmac and there are three substantial former farm buildings providing excellent storage. There is also a vehicle inspection pit. There are attractive gardens with an area of lawn and mature planted borders including hydrangeas and hosta.

BUILDINGS
Barn: 14.31m x 6.33m
Stone and slate.

Adjoining car port: 5.46m x 6.21m
Corrugated frame.

General Purpose Shed: 5.35m x 18.3 with two lean tos: 6.5m x 18.3m & 9.0m x 18.3m
Corrugated frame, concrete and earth floor.

Dutch Barn: 6.1m x 19.2m with lean to 10m x 13.2m
With 4 bays, earth floor.

LAND
Place Farm extends to approximately 18.89 acres (7.64 Ha) in total and is a mixture of grazing ground, woodland and shrubs. The land is principally classified Grade 3(1) by the James Hutton Institute and rises from approximately 70m to 100m above sea level at its highest point. Within Lot 1 stands the ruins of Kilbirnie Castle and mansion house as described later. The land is registered under the Basic Payment Scheme as Region 1. The payment for 2024 will be retained by the vendors.

Should the property be sold in lots, the sellers will apportion the entitlements between the Lots 1 and 2.

Lot 2

The paddock extends to 2.18 Ac of Grade 4(1) grazing/silage land.

ACCESS
There is right of access over the drive for the neighbouring properties as marked A - C - D on the enclosed plan. If Lot 2 is sold separately, there will be a Right of Access from A to B marked on the plan.

KILBIRNIE CASTLE
Within the grounds, lie the substantial remains of Kilbirnie Castle which dates to the 1400s, the building was destroyed by fire in May 1757. The 19th Earl of Crawfurd, along with his infant daughter (later of Countess of Eglinton) had little time to escape. Some of the buildings were then retained as a hunting lodge. The approach to the castle from the south was a long straight avenue was bordered by high walls once enclosing large gardens. Kilbirnie Castle is said to be on the site where in 1263 the Scots mustered under Alexander III before fighting Norwegian forces in the Battle of Largs. The building is also known as the Place of Kilbirnie, The Place or Kilbirnie House.

EPC Rating = F