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Orchil Castle Braco • by Gleneagles • Perthshire Selling Agent Savills 8 Wemyss Place Edinburgh EH 3 6 DH Tel: 0131 247 3700 [email protected] Solicitors Jameson & Mackay 1 Charlotte Street Perth PH 1 5 LP Tel: 01738 630350 [email protected] ORCHIL CASTLE BRACO • BY GLENEAGLES • PERTHSHIRE • FK 15 9 LF Braco 3 miles, Gleneagles Hotel 6 miles, Perth 21 miles, Stirling 17 miles Glasgow 42 miles, Edinburgh 49 Miles, Edinburgh Airport 46 miles MAGNIFICENT SCOTS BARONIAL CASTLE WITH OUTSTANDING SETTING AND VIEWS Reception Hall • 3 Principal Reception Rooms • Kitchen • Ancillary Rooms 3 Bedroom Flat in Wing • Basement Stores Master Bedroom with Dressing Room and Bathroom 3 Further Bedrooms and 2 Bathrooms Second Floor and Tower Rooms requiring refurbishment Large Storage Shed 2 Bedroom Cottage Parkland With Loch and Boathouse About 21 Acres LOT 2 Long Tree Lined Drive with Woodland and Walled Garden • About 35 Acres About 56 Acres In All SITUATION Orchil Castle has a magnificent setting in 21 acres of its own The country club associated with the hotel has three golf There is a railway station at Gleneagles with an overnight parkland with panoramic views over its own loch to the courses – The King’s, The Queen’s and The PGA Centenary sleeper service direct to London Euston and a daily direct Orchil Hills. Course. There are many other facilities at Gleneagles, just a service to London King’s Cross, taking just under six hours. few of which are the spa and leisure club, riding school, The town of Dunblane, nearby, has services to both The castle is one of several properties which originally shooting school, falconry and both indoor and outdoor Edinburgh and Glasgow. formed the Orchil Estate. Each property is set in its own tennis courts. Gleneagles is also home to Scotland’s only beautiful grounds. The castle owns over 56 acres in total two-star Michelin restaurant. There are several good schools in the area including including the south driveway and woodland. Morrison’s Academy and Ardvreck (a preparatory school) in Other golf courses in reach include the Old Course at St nearby Crieff; also Glenalmond, Strathallan, Dollar Braco is the nearest village. The house is also well placed for Andrews, Loch Lomond and Carnoustie. Academy and Kilgraston, all of which accept both boarding the towns of Crieff and Auchterarder and for Gleneagles and day pupils. Hotel. Gleneagles was host to the 2014 Ryder Cup and has Auchterarder and Crieff provide a good range of shops. The won awards as the Best Golf Resort in the World and as larger towns of Perth and Stirling are both within 20 miles. The property is well positioned for access to the Highlands, Scotland's Best Hotel Spa. Glasgow and Edinburgh and their airports are within 50 with hill walking, mountaineering, skiing and water sports miles with fast links via the A9 and motorway network. all available just to the north. ORCHIL CASTLE South Facade West Facade East Facade North Facade ORCHIL CASTLE West View HISTORY Orchil Estate was acquired by Rev John McDougall of Following this, the house was sold to an addiction Dundee and his wife in 1867. They commissioned the well rehabilitation organisation and then to the Elim Pentecostal known architect Andrew Heiton Junior to build Orchil Church of America. Students were brought from America in Castle; it is considered Heiton’s most ambitious and the summers for bible study tours but they were also put to successful country house. work on the house itself. It was sold to a developer in 1993 but remained in a ruinous state. The castle passed into the ownership of Rev Thomas Crawford in 1907. In 1917 the interior of the house was The house was returned to private ownership in 1995 and the largely destroyed by fire. When the Crawfords rebuilt the process of restoration began. The ground and first floors are interior they added the stained glass windows in the hall now mainly restored, but the upper floors and basement where the initials TC (Thomas Crawford) and EJC require refurbishment. (Elizabeth Jane Crawford) form part of the design. In 1927 the estate was sold to the Dawson family. It has been DESCRIPTION claimed that the then Dukes of Kent and York were frequent Orchil House has magnificent exteriors with a main tower, visitors and that Colonel Dawson was known to keep watch crow stepped gables and turrets with spires. All four facades for German war planes from the castle tower. In 1947 the are impressive and each presents a charmingly different estate was sold again, this time to the Drummond Moray aspect of the outstanding architecture. To the rear is an family and was resold in lots between 1949 and 1953. Orchil archway leading to a pretty courtyard enclosed within the U Castle was described in the sale particulars as 'the finest shape of the castle. country house in Scotland'. The interiors, accessed off a large reception hall, are most After the war the fortunes of the house declined somewhat. It impressive. The rooms are large but retain a manageable was used as a foster home for a few years, and was then layout. A self-contained three bedroom flat, with its own bought by a farmer who wanted the land more than the entrance from the courtyard, has been created in the east house. The farmer took up occupancy of the outbuilding wing. There are four bedrooms on the first floor. which had served as the castle’s generator shed and laundry (now the cottage lying to the north of the castle), and allowed his sheep and pigs to roam amongst the marble fireplaces and carved oak panelling on the ground floor of the castle. Hens were kept on the second floor where some of their roosting perches can still be seen today. In 1967 the house caught fire once again, but only the central roof was lost. ORCHIL CASTLE ORCHIL CASTLE ACCOMMODATION Ground Floor From the shared driveway a tarmac drive sweeps up the edge Dining room which requires refurbishment. Stone fireplace Bedroom 2 with fireplace and two south facing windows of the parkland to a parking and turning area to the north of with large solid fuel stove. Bay windows to south and east. overlooking the loch. Bathroom with two windows to south the house. There is a low retaining wall set with thistle- overlooking the loch. Free standing central bath. Shower shaped urns leading to the inner courtyard and back door. East Wing Flat compartment. Wash basin. WC. Fireplace. Tiled floor. On the west side a paved pathway leads across the terraced Corridor with door to spiral stairs and store room off with Heated towel rails. lawn to the main entrance, an arched portico with a stone metal door to strong room. Connecting door to flat. carved coat of arms above. A large brass bell attached to the Bedroom 4 with bay window to south overlooking the loch. stone wall announces the arrival of visitors. Entry is gained Kitchen / living room with raised fireplace with solid fuel Dressing room and bathroom with period tiles, bath, WC by an arched doorway with cast iron railing and thistles to: stove. Fitted floor cupboards with electric cooker and hob, and wash basin. sink, integrated dishwasher. High pitched ceiling. Four large Entrance hall with stone fireplace. Wooden dado panelling. windows giving expansive views to the east. East corridor with undeveloped room and door to corridor Arched doorway to reception hall. with undeveloped room off. Three bedrooms. Bathroom with shower cabinet, WC, wash Anteroom with fireplace. Office with cupboard containing basin and heated towel rail. Second Floor central heating boiler and hot water cylinder and fireplace From the first floor landing there is a curtain to the stairs up with large solid fuel stove. Cloakroom with fitted coat hooks Basement to the second floor. Extensive undeveloped space with and wash basin. Separate WC. Spiral stairs down to large basement with flagstone flooring. plywood flooring and exposed stone walls. Front and side Undecorated but providing useful storage. rooms with original wooden flooring. Two electric hot water Magnificent reception hall with sweeping wooden staircases cylinders serving bathrooms on first floor. to galleried landing above. Central fireplace with large solid First Floor fuel stove, stone surround and wood panelling above. From the reception hall there is a magnificent wide stairway Tower up to the large galleried hall on the first floor. Pitched From second floor spiral stair up to tower room. Curving Drawing room with bay windows to the south and west. ceiling with decorative cornice. Magnificent triple arched bay window with magnificent views to south. Upper tower Fireplace with large solid fuel stove. Decorative cornice work windows. Chapel with stained glass arched window. room with two porthole windows. Half glazed door to and wall panels. battlements. Master bedroom with bay windows to south and west. Sitting room with cast iron fireplace. Glazed door to the Fireplace. En suite bathroom with bay window to west, bath, south with steps to garden. shower compartment, WC, bidet, heated towel rails and tiled floor. Kitchen with wall units with sink, Raeburn oil fired cooker, integrated dishwasher, electric hob, stone tiled floor. Four Passage connecting to dressing room with two large windows large windows giving views over the loch. to west and full wall fitted wardrobes. West corridor to Bedroom 3, boiler cupboard and undeveloped room. ORCHIL CASTLE Entrance Hall ORCHIL CASTLE ORCHIL CASTLE ORCHIL CASTLE ORCHIL CASTLE Gross internal area (approx) 1583.67 sq.m (17047 sq.ft) 3.80 x 1.80 12'6'' x 5'11'' Gross external area (approx) 3.80 x 2.00 35.77 sq.m (385 sq.ft) 4.10 x 3.90 12'6'' x 6'7'' 13'5'' x 12'10'' 3.80 x 2.20 12'6'' x 7'3'' 3.80 x 2.10 Gross internal area (approx) 12'6'' x 6'11'' 3.90 x 2.10 1583.67 sq.m (17047 sq.ft) 12'10'' x 6'11'' Gross external area (approx) 35.77 sq.m (385 sq.ft) Cellar For Identification Only.