Lochside House, West Glen Road, Houston, Johnstone

Lochside House is a peaceful and spacious rural home set within a privately managed estate offering more than 4,200 sq ft of light-filled flexible accommodation arranged over two floors. Designed with both grandeur and practicality in mind, the home is ideally suited as a prestigious family residence, a country retreat, or an exclusive international base in Scotland. Delivering an exceptional combination of modern comfort and natural splendour along with an elegant and practical living and entertaining environment, this property maximizes stunning lochside views.

Featuring quality fixtures and fittings, generously proportioned rooms, and with all six of its bedrooms benefitting from their own luxurious en-suite. The underfloor heating sits beneath a wealth of beautiful hardwood flooring on the ground floor, seamlessly combining style and functionality. The accommodation flows from a welcoming part double-height reception hall with useful storage, cloakroom, patio doors to the garden and galleried landing. It comprises a vaulted cathedral ceilinged formal lounge with fireplace, full-height and picture glazing, patio doors to the garden, and two high placement windows adding architectural grandeur and flooding the room with natural light. A expansive dining room also provides patio doors to the rear terrace. The kitchen/breakfast room opens into a vaulted sitting room with feature fireplace, a large sky lantern and its own access to the rear terrace. It provides a range of wall and base units including a large central island with breakfast bar, allowing for ample space to entertain and socialise with its modern integrated appliances, space for a sizeable table, patio doors to the rear terrace and a neighbouring fitted utility room with Belfast sink. This area of open layout allows families to interact while cooking, eating, and relaxing, fostering a connected atmosphere.

The ground floor accommodation is completed by a principle bedroom wing, featuring a double-height vaulted bedroom with patio doors to the garden, a large fitted dressing room, and an elegant bathroom with Porcelanosa fittings including a roll-top bath, shower and twin sinks. There are also two further double bedrooms, one currently configured as a study and the other with patio doors to the garden. Both share Jack and Jill access to an en suite shower room.

On the first floor a generous galleried landing with further storage opens to three large bedrooms all with en suite shower/bathrooms.

The home has been upgraded with solar panels and air-source heat pumps, both sized generously enough to make the property both sustainable and cost-efficient. There is also a large underground gas tank, used solely for one of the feature fireplaces and the kitchens gas hob. There is an opportunity to go totally off-grid with the installation of small hydroelectric turbine (subject to usual permissions).

This property has 3 acres of land.