

Musselburgh · EH21
42 Craighall Avenue, EH21 8FQ
The ground floor is thoughtfully arranged around a superb dining kitchen, featuring extensive worktop space, excellent storage, a range of integrated appliances and ample room for family dining. A door from the kitchen provides direct access to the outdoor areas, creating a seamless connection between indoor and outdoor living.
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Property DescriptionSituated within a modern development in the popular coastal town of Musselburgh, this impressive detached family home offers spacious and versatile accommodation ideally suited to contemporary family living.The ground floor is thoughtfully arranged around a superb dining kitchen, featuring extensive worktop space, excellent storage, a range of integrated appliances and ample room for family dining. A door from the kitchen provides direct access to the outdoor areas, creating a seamless connection between indoor and outdoor living. To the rear, the generous sitting room is flooded with natural light and benefits from patio doors opening onto the private rear garden, offering an ideal setting for both everyday family life and entertaining. Completing the ground floor is a highly versatile additional room, perfect as a fifth bedroom, snug, playroom or home office, alongside a convenient WC.Upstairs, the property offers four well-proportioned bedrooms, three of which are spacious doubles. The principal bedroom enjoys the added luxury of an en-suite shower room, while all three double bedrooms benefit from built-in wardrobes, providing excellent storage. A contemporary family bathroom serves the remaining accommodation, and access to the loft space offers further practical storage solutions.Externally, the property continues to impress with a private front garden and an enclosed rear garden, ideal for children, pets and outdoor entertaining. A single garage and double driveway provide excellent off-street parking and additional storage.The Local AreaSituated on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, on the banks of The River Esk, Musselburgh is a popular and historic East Lothian coastal town directly adjacent to Edinburgh. Famous for its world renowned race course, as well as the Musselburgh Links golf course, it enjoys an enviable location that offers easy access to Edinburgh as well as to the countryside and beaches of East Lothian.Along with golf and horse racing, the town benefits from a seafront and harbour as well as the Musselburgh Lagoons which has a recently expanded nature reserve and walking routes. As the largest town in East Lothian, Musselburgh enjoys an array of local and well known high street shops, cafes, bakeries and restaurants including Luca's famous ice cream parlour and East Coast, an award winning fish and chip shop / restaurant. There is a large Tesco within a short walk of the property, and Fort Kinnaird Retail Park is in easy reach.Loretto School, one of the UK's leading independent schools, is a short walk from the property with Queen Margaret University less than a 10 minute drive.Edinburgh Waverley train station is one stop (7 minutes) from Musselburgh station which also provides regular trains to other destinations such as North Berwick and further afield. Musselburgh is a hub for the East Lothian bus network providing excellent transport links.ExtrasAll blinds, light fittings, fitted flooring, and integrated appliances are included in the sale price. The wall-mounted shelves and storage in the sitting room are not included in the sale.
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0.5 milesto Musselburgh Rail Station
Approximate straight-line distance · DfT NaPTAN · 13 Sept 2026Background air quality
- Fine particles · PM₂.₅
- 4.8 µg/m³ · Meets the WHO guideline
- Nitrogen dioxide · NO₂
- 7.1 µg/m³ · Meets the WHO guideline
Annual background levels. For scale: the WHO 2021 guideline is 5 µg/m³ for PM₂.₅ and 10 for NO₂; the UK legal limit is 20 and 40. Lower is better; this is a 1 km model, not a reading at the door.
Defra · 2024 annual model · 1 km areaLocal information is approximate. Distances are straight-line estimates from the available location. Broadband describes postcode coverage, not the speed or service available at this home; check the address with a provider. Air quality is a modelled annual background estimate.
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