Location

Northumberland Street lies at the heart of the New Town and is one of the most distinguished streets in central Edinburgh.

The property is ideally located for all amenities in the city centre including excellent shopping in George Street, Multrees Walk, Princes Street and Stockbridge.

Nearby Dundas Street is known for its numerous privately owned art galleries, boutiques and cafes.

Waverley Station is situated within a mile of the house and there is an excellent choice of supermarkets and local independent stores in Stockbridge and Comely Bank.

The property is in convenient reach of a variety of excellent local and private schools including The Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriots, Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools and St George's School for Girls.

Residents may apply for access to the delightful Queen Street Gardens, a wonderful, well-maintained parkland amenity close to the house.

Description

60 Northumberland Street is a particularly fine four storey Georgian townhouse offering spacious, comfortable and bright accommodation over lower ground, ground, first and second floors. With south and north aspects there is plenty of natural light throughout the day further enhanced by the delightful cupola crowning the impressive stone stair. The accommodation is beautifully presented having been fully refurbished and modernised by the current owners around ten years ago, yet successfully blends these contemporary fixtures and fittings with many fine period features. These features include the original flagstone floors, working shutters, marble mantelpieces and ornate plaster work. There is a particularly fine reception space, with the dining kitchen and sitting room on the ground floor and the drawing room on the first floor, complemented by five well proportioned bedrooms and three well appointed bathrooms (two en suite) in the upper part of the house, making this is an exceptional family home, with the additional benefit of a fully integral, self-contained three bedroom and two bathroom lower ground floor flat.

The front door opens to the entrance vestibule with beautiful plasterwork, and a part glazed door opening to the inner hall. From here there is access to the beautifully appointed bow-ended dining kitchen to the front of the house. There are a range of solid wood storage cupboards with marble worktops and a generous central island. There is an impressive black marble mantelpiece as well as delightful cornicing and two double glazed astragal windows. The sitting room is set to the rear and is exceptionally comfortable and wonderfully bright, with French doors that open to the south facing patio leading to the garden. This room also benefits from an impressive mantelpiece and plasterwork. Also on the ground floor is a large cloakroom with a WC.

The elegant stone stair with original wrought iron balustrades and mahogany hand rail rises to the first floor where there is a spectacular drawing room with three astragal windows to the front. It is a wonderfully elegant room with a white marble mantelpiece and delicate cornicing. There is a bar within the cupboard and there is a useful utility room adjacent. The principal bedroom is situated to the south facing the rear of the house. Generous in proportion, the room benefits from a walk-in dressing room as well as a luxurious en suite bathroom. There is also an airing cupboard on this floor.

The stair continues up to the second floor where there are four further double bedrooms, one of which benefits from an en suite shower room, as well as a family bathroom.

A stone stair from the ground floor hall leads to the lower ground floor where there is a lockable door, allowing it to be fully integrated or self-contained, with access from the front basement area. Here there is a bright and spacious sitting/dining room with well-appointed modern kitchen off, three bedrooms (one of which has an en suite shower room) and a further bathroom. It is ideally suited to a nanny, relatives, long-term guests or as a rental investment.

To the rear of the house there is a delightful recently landscaped south facing walled garden. Extending from the sitting room there is a wonderful stone patio, perfect for external dining, and providing a direct link from the ground floor to the garden. To the front of the property there is a basement area with direct access to the lower ground floor, and three under-pavement cellars which have been tanked.

The property also benefits from a single garage, unusually situated behind the adjacent house, allowing for a full south facing garden to the rear of this property. There is a door leading from the garage into the garden, and the garage is accessed from Northumberland Street South West Lane.