E ilEan a igas EilEan aigas invErnEss-shirE, scotland Inverness 15 miles ~ Inverness Airport 26 miles (All distances are approximate) EXCEPTIONAL HOUSE SITUATED ON A PRIVATE ISLAND ON THE RIVER BEAULY 1 2 Mansion house comprising: reception hall, 5 reception rooms, library, cinema, 6 principal bedroom suites and 3 further bedrooms Outstanding policies with specimen trees and woodland sporting lodge (4 en suite bedrooms) gate lodge (3 bedrooms) Estate Office with flat (1 bed) Former farmhouse and steading Barn comprising garaging and storage 76 acres parkland and 460 acres woodlands and policies single bank salmon and trout fishing on the River Beauly 2.5 acre trout loch about 546 acres (221 hectares) in total for sale as a whole Brodies LLP ~ Edinburgh Savills ~ Edinburgh 15 Atholl Crescent Wemyss House Edinburgh 8 Wemyss Place EH3 8HA Edinburgh EH3 6DH [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0) 131 228 3777 +44 (0) 131 247 3720 3 situation Eilean Aigas’s extraordinary seclusion and privacy bely its accessibility. Beauly, the nearest village, is only about four miles away and Inverness about 15 miles. Inverness Airport is about 26 miles to the east, with direct services to major UK airports and Amsterdam, with connections to worldwide destinations. There is a sleeper rail service from Inverness to London, six nights a week. Inverness provides a wide range of shops, supermarkets and professional services. The north of Scotland is noted for its great wildernesses and field sports, including pheasant, partridge and grouse shooting. Red, roe and fallow deer stalking is also readily available. Only a short distance to the south is the popular skiing area at Aviemore in the Cairngorms, a National Park of great beauty. The locality also has great appeal for the golfer, with the nearby Aigas (9 hole course), as well as Inverness, Royal Dornoch, Nairn and Castle Stuart in the wider area. 4 5 6 historical & architEctural notEs Eilean Aigas is a magical, wooded family estate”. As part of the divorce edge technology; every modern hewn from American Heart pine logs island of some 60 acres on the settlement she exchanged the island convenience, from entertainment salvaged from the Savannah River in River Beauly, about 15 miles west of for his London house. systems to security systems, has been the Carolinas. Sunk in transit in 1700, Inverness. For centuries, until 1995, discreetly installed. they had been under water for four The present owners bought the it was a possession of the Frasers centuries and were almost petrified. island in 2003 and acquired almost Inspiration for the design was drawn, of Lovat and has played host to The attention to detail throughout the 500 acres of farmland and woodland not from traditional Scottish baronial numerous luminaries over the years. project was exemplary and can rarely on the “mainland” to the east and sources, but from the Anglo-Dutch In 1839 Lord Lovat built a house have been seen matched. north, which ensures that the island, influenced classical country house on the island for the Sobieski Stuart always a sanctuary, now enjoys a tradition, epitomised by Belton House, Despite its scale the house is easily brothers, antiquarians who claimed quite extraordinary level of privacy and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the managed and it functions admirably to be direct descendants of Prince security, almost completely hidden Dutch House at Kew, Kingston Lacy both as an impressive house in which Charles Edward Stuart. This house from the outside world. In addition to and even the Governor’s Palace to host large house parties as well still stands and has been renovated as the commissioning of a magnificent in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. as a comfortable family home. The a guest house for the main house. At new mansion house, the 1839 house Details from all of these, and more, standard of the works undertaken is one time Eilean Aigas was the summer has been renovated for use as a guest were incorporated into the final to an extraordinarily high specification, retreat of the Conservative statesman house and a new gate lodge and design. The 22 massive chimney such that Eilean Aigas could even be and prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, estate office have been built to protect stacks were influenced by ones seen used as a corporate venue. and was rented by Sir Compton the entrance. on a building near Bruges, while Mackenzie in the 1930s. His wife, the superb plasterwork owes much The result is almost certainly the Faith, described how “...on the north The new mansion house, completed to the pattern books of the 17th finest new country house to have side rugged purple and grey cliffs in 2007, took six years to build. Built century master, Quellin, and was been built in Scotland this century, flanked the narrow, turbulent river, of stone quarried at Nairn, it is on an commissioned from Hayles and Howe. incomparable in scale and quality of small pine trees hung at all angles over epic scale, with a gross internal floor The entry hall plasterwork alone took build and finish to any other. Eilean the water from rock crevices. Walking area of 28,000 sq ft, offering half a five months to complete. Aigas is a haven for a buyer looking against the stream up on the grassy dozen magnificent reception rooms for seclusion and privacy, in one of the path of the cliff, you suddenly went and eight bedroom suites. The aim of The interior designer was Lady most dramatic and romantic positions downhill and came upon the same the owners, who worked very much Henrietta Spencer Churchill, who imaginable. river, tranquil as a pool.” Lady Antonia “hands on” with the Scottish architects oversaw all the architectural details Fraser (now Pinter) is understood to and craftsmen throughout the project, and the specialist paintwork. She have worked on some of her books in was to create a house that appears to sourced both antique items and a summer house on the island during have evolved over several centuries, bespoke fittings and commissioned her marriage to the late Sir Hugh from as early as the 17th century and others such as the entry hall Fraser MP. Lady Antonia’s diaries, they succeeded-triumphantly. The chandelier, many of the fabrics and published in 2010, reveal that she in result is homogenous and the quality even some of the sanitary ware. fact owned the island, although, she of the workmanship is superb. Behind The wood flooring can justifiably be wrote, “it was in the heart of Hugh’s the traditional facade lies cutting described as unique. The planks were 7 EilEan aigas The island of Eilean Aigas is approached by a private tarmacadam drive leading from the public road and sweeping down through the parkland past the estate office and gate lodge to the stone built bridge, which has electrically operated security gates. The drive continues across the bridge and terminates at a gravelled parking area to the front of the mansion house. The new house is majestically positioned on a high bank above the river, close to the eastern end of the island, and enjoys splendid views up and down the river below and across to the managed policy parkland and mature woodland beyond. Laid out over four floors, the accommodation is as shown on the accompanying floor plans and is of an unrivalled scale and quality of build and finish to any other newly built country house in Scotland. Every conceivable detail has been considered, paying particular attention to the layout and practical management of the house. It is designed to function with house staff going about their duties with minimal disruption to house guests. Logs for open fires are brought in via service lifts to individual rooms. Back stairs allow movement without imposing on the principal reception rooms, thus creating a peaceful ambience and tranquillity in harmony with the surroundings. Vast astragal windows flood each room with natural light, and for sunny days, there is a paved terrace with a wonderful outlook over the river. 8 9 10 11 1212 13 1214 1315 Eilean Aigas Kiltarlity, Beauly FOR IDENTIFICATION ONLY - NOT TO SCALE © HONEYGRAM LTD 2009 Switch Room 6.00 x 4.20 19'9" x 13'9" Log Media Bar Store 2.90 x 2.60 Media Store 9'6" x 8'6" 3.05 x 1.90 Boiler Room boiler 10'0" x 6'3" ore boiler idor 7.25 x 6.70* r St Media Room Games Room g Projection 75 23'9" x 22'0" lla 9'0" Corr 8.75 x 7.15 Lo Room 6.55 x 5.85 (* max) x 28'9" x 23'6" 2.60 x 2.20 Ce Plant Room 21'6" x 19'3" " 8'6" x 7'3" Store Room lower ground Floor 4.40 x 3.05 UP UP 6.85 x 4.50 6.95 x 2. 22'9 14'6" x 10'0" Wine 22'6" x 14'9" Media Room Lobby Garden Hall South Hall South Games Room Hall Rear Corridor NorthRear Corridor South 6.00 x 4.70 North Corridor Corridor 19'9" x 15'6" Mid Hall 5.35 x 4.80 UP UP 05 UP 9'9" 17'6" x 15'6" Lift ng x om WC " WC oni Linen Room Ro Ir 6.65 x 5.40 4.05 x 3. 13'3 21'9" x 17'9" Eilean Aigas KiltExercisear Rolitomy, Beauly FOR IDENT7.00IFIC xAT 5.IO85NONLY-NOTTO SCALE 23'0" x 19'3" ApproximateGross Internal Area = 2,679m² (28,837sqft) © HONEYGRAM LTD 2009 Gross Internal Floor Area (Approx.) Basement 2,679m² (28,837sqft) ground Floor Library 8.15 x5.95 UP 5 9" 26'9" x 19'6" DrawingRoom set Ante Room .3 7' 3.50 x2.60 13.10x10.65* lo x2 "x 11'6"x8'6" aC '0 43'0" x 35'0" 35 in Dining Room 3.