The last remaining merchant's house in Fortrose has been offered for sale at a £700,000 asking price.

Five-bedroom Braemoray also comes with a gallery shop has been sympathetically restored to its former glory by the current owners.

Well placed for access to Fortrose harbour, beach, sailing club and golf course with club house, the Cathedral Square property looks out on the medieval cathedral and beyond to the Moray Firth.

Original period features are retained in every room, including open fireplaces, decorative cornicing and coving and stained glass.

The windows are all double glazed in keeping with the original sash and case style, the stone mullions have been cleaned and repointed and roof has been brought up to date with modern insulation, while the large dining kitchen is fully tiled and has an electric Aga, butler sunk and fitted units.

Braemoray is accessible through to the gallery shop, which has a frontage on Fortrose High Street, but this could be retained or closed off depending on the new owners' preference, and could be let for an estimated £13,000 per annum if not required.

The shop, which includes a jewellery workshop where couples can come to make their own wedding rings, has been trading for 18 years, but has also been run as a popular café in the past. There is also potential to extend into the existing snug room at the back with doors that open out into a courtyard garden directly opposite Fortrose Cathedral.

Alternatively, this snug and kitchen/washroom could be combined with the bedroom above and be utilised as a granny flat or separate holiday let.

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Full details of the property are available at www.yopa.co.uk/properties/details/253937

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