The combination of tradition and modern style, with just the right amount of quirkiness, makes this top floor flat one to be at the top of your viewing list.
Tradition comes by way of the generous dimensions and high ceilings of the main apartments, timber-framed double-glazed sash windows, internal doors in their natural wood finishes, and a working fireplace and decorative ceiling rose and cornice work in the lounge. The style is in those most important of areas; the kitchen and the bathroom. Slate isn’t just for roofs and has been deployed to most excellent effect in the walls of the latter.
Briefly, the accommodation comprises: a welcoming hall, a substantial lounge with boxroom, a spacious dining kitchen, two double bedrooms and bathroom. There is also a well-maintained back green.
The flat is just a few minutes’ walk from the hustle and bustle of Easter Road, with its variety of local independent shops and cafes. For more major food shopping, there are a choice of supermarkets on Easter Road and a Sainsbury’s along at Meadowbank.
The city centre can be reached on foot and it is also a short walk to and from the Scottish Parliament. The No 35 bus runs down to Ocean Terminal and over to Heriot-Watt University and many other services can be caught in London Road, meaning that car ownership isn’t essential when it comes to getting round town. For those who do have a car, parking is by residents’ permit.
The Omnicentre, the Playhouse and the bars and restaurants of Leith Walk are also within walking distance. Montgomery Street Park is just over the road, London Road Gardens are pretty much round the corner and you can walk to Holyrood Park in five minutes and even the top of Arthur’s Seat in another twenty.
Also close by is Meadowbank Sports Centre with its gym, fitness studios, games halls, squash courts, 3G sports pitches and indoor and outdoor athletics tracks. Those who don’t mind running the risk of spoiling a good walk will find Craigentinny Golf Course within reach by car. It’s also easy to get down to Portobello and its beach.
The property has recently been redecorated and is in walk-in condition. A new gas fired central heating boiler is being fitted.
A well-kept common stair, with door entry system, leads to the top landing. Being closest to the cupola means that you have something approaching a greenhouse at your disposal and buyers with green fingers may wish to follow the sellers’ example and make the final few steps to the property ones that have a pleasant horticultural feel to them. The room takes light from a transom light over the wooden entrance door and the other apartments. The traditional doorbell remains as an aesthetic feature, its previous purpose supplanted by the perhaps more security-serving entryphone. A deep walk-in wardrobe provides a vast amount of immediately accessible storage, with two levels of shelving and plentiful hanging space; a light will help with rummaging in the far away recesses.
4.85 m X 3.68 m / 15’11” X 12’1″
Situated to the front of the property, with a large window, this is a very pleasant formal sitting area. The working fire, with its cast iron hearth and surround and wooden mantle, forms the centrepiece of the room, but the eye will also be taken by the large decorative ceiling rose and cornicework. A traditional tenement flat wouldn’t be the same without a boxroom and you won’t be disappointed here, with advantage having been taken of the available space to create a very handy home office area, in turn allowing the other rooms to be kept as they are.
5.82 m X 3.05 m / 19’1″ X 10’0″
The southerly aspect means that this everyday room is particularly bright and sunny and it is certainly somewhere that you will want to spend a lot of every day. The resident chef shouldn’t need too much persuasion to try their hand at the latest culinary creation. The units incorporate two pan drawers and otherwise provide very good storage. Slate is deployed to stylish and practical effect in the work surfaces and its source adds to the je ne sais quoi: reclaimed pool tables! Meals can be enjoyed in the spacious dining area that easily accommodates even a substantial table. A Bosch three quarter dishwasher will help with the post-prandial clean up, as will task lighting over the sink. The flooring is natural linoleum and illumination comes by way of ceiling-mounted spots set in an oval and twin rise and fall lights, with LED lighting under the wall cabinets. There is another large walk-in airing cupboard housing the boiler. The main room also has a shelved press used as a pantry, with internal lighting. The skirting boards have been taken back to their natural wood finish.
3.76 m X 3.45 m / 12’4″ X 11’4″
This is a substantial main sleeping apartment The window receives morning and evening sunlight and there is also a transom light over the door from the hall. There is an attractive decorative cornice.
3.3 m X 2.72 m / 10’10” X 8’11”
This pleasant second double is quietly situated to the rear of the flat and enjoys a view down into the garden. As with the kitchen, the south-facing situation makes it naturally bright during the day and it also enjoys an attractive view of trees and London Road Church.
The simple contrast of slate grey and white works perfectly here, making the functional very fashionable. The suite comprises a bespoke, shaped Carron bath with a rainfall shower over, a wall-mounted wash hand basin with mixer tap and a floating WC with a push button flush for the concealed cistern. A myriad of ceiling-mounted spotlights might allow the more imaginative to believe that their relaxing soak in the bath after a long hard day was taking place under the stars. Storage comes in the form of a split level corner cupboard and there is also a heated rail for the towels. And there’s also a treat for the feet: the electric underfloor heating set beneath the slate tiling.
There is a well-kept shared garden and drying green behind the tenement. A pleasant lawn has borders with mature dwarf conifers and trees.