Try the house speciality

20/01/2012

Why go for run-of-the mill when you can have a stunning home with that little extra something?

By Jenny Shields. What distinguishes one property from another when a house-hunter, weighed down with brochures, red-eyed from too many hours on estate agents’ websites or footsore from too many viewings, finally tries to make sense of it all?

There can be a good overall impression, or perhaps the thought of living at a general address or being in the catchment area of a really good school.

But sometimes it’s just a single feature that is remembered – the one thing that makes it stand out, head and shoulders above any other property that clinches the sale.

City centre apartments can be much of a muchness. New ones are often over-stylised while traditional ones can look a bit dated. However, one for sale on Miller Street, in the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant City, will win you over.

It would bd an attractive proposition anyway but the magnificent cupola makes it something extra special.

The building, a formerly library and now A-listed, was divided into apartments three years ago.

The elegant apartment now for sale occupies two floors, giving a generous 1,300 sq ft of living space. On the lower level is a reception hall, a large dining kitchen, a bathroom and two en suite double bedrooms. On the upper level is a large sitting room on one level and the circular copula that drenches the whole place with natural light.

D.J. Alexander is looking for offers in the region of £275,000.

DAILY MAIL, 20 January 2012