Highland Estate for sale in Scotland

Billionaire Brendan Clouston has actually slashed £12million from the price tag of his Inverness-shire estate as he prepares to go on it to auction

Eilean Aigas island (kept), owned by Mr Clouston (right), is spread-over 546 acres and functions a mansion, a gate household and lodge

Through crucial gap: The four-storey mansion, featuring this gold coloured sitting room, had been integrated 2006 from the eastern side of the area

Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) requested a compulsory purchase order for a tiny piece of Mr Clouston's estate, which lies in a slim strip between Eskadale and Hughton back 2011.

The vitality leaders required their land to broaden a roadway so it could accommodate traffic taking care of the controversial Beauly Denny overhead energy range improvement.

Mr Clouston, a friend of Bill Gates, not spends much time at Eilean Aigas and it has relocated to their home in Channel Islands.

Evelyn Channing of Savill's in Edinburgh stated: 'It in fact is an extraordinary residence, very imposing and grand but hidden and personal in addition.'

The area, which can be accessed by a connection, features the mansion, a gate home and searching lodge, that are enclosed by adult woodland and parkland.

As well as the island, the estate is sold with virtually 500 miles of farmland and woodland on 'mainland' towards the eastern and north.

For hundreds of years the website was in the ownership associated with Frasers of Lovat, in line with the auctions.

Over the years it has played number to several dignitaries, including Sir Robert Peel, the Conservative Prime Minister, just who utilized the island as their summertime retreat.

The four-storey mansion-house, modelled in the original hunting lodge, had been completed in 2007 and sits on a top lender above a river from the east side of the area.

It took six years to build and it is spread-over 28, 000ft.

Peacefully: Savills, that attempting to sell the estate, said the design 'creates a calm atmosphere and tranquillity'

The beautiful residential property has languished regarding the home marketplace unsold for three years. Pictured: The mansion's lavish dinning space

The island property was at the center of a dispute with Scottish and Southern Energy; right, the house features numerous open fires

Logs for available fires tend to be earned via service lifts to individual spaces with right back stairs permitting staff and friends to move around without imposing on main reception areas.

inside attempting to sell notes from Savills it stated the look 'creates a peaceful atmosphere and tranquillity in equilibrium using surroundings'.

Mr Clouston aided fund the local campaign team Pylon stress and provided research during the public query into SSE's programs.

In 2012, a spokesman for Mr Clouston verified the brand new power line had added to his decision to sell the island property.

Eilean Aigas is certainly going under the hammer in London on September 21.

Mr Clouston couldn't be reached for remark.

WHO IS THE RECLUSIVE BILLIONAIRE OWNER OF EILEAN AIGAS ISLAND HOME?

Brendan Clouston is a Canadian-born businessman, whose buddies are reputed to add Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, and had been a non-executive manager associated with UK organization Wireless Infrastructure Group.

He formerly invested 15 years at Tele-Communications Inc - America's biggest cable operator - including six years as main running officer.

In the belated 1990s, Mr Clouston and his Canadian partner, Judy - who have two young ones collectively - moved to the UK and bought an 1840s, mock-Jacobean manor in the Dorset village of Chedington. However, an unannounced fireworks party to commemorate their partner's birthday plus a seemingly obsessive desire to have secrecy couldn't endear him to neighborhood residents.

The couple later bought Eilean Aigas in the River Beauly, a secluded 60-acre island escape with a eight-bedroom Victorian lodge. With regards to proceeded the market in 2001 it had been described as the epitome of an intimate hideaway.

Mr Clouston later became active in the promotion from the Beauly Denny power line scheme, calling the range to-be placed underground in the Beauly location. He had been especially worried about the impact on wildlife including red kites, honey buzzards and ospreys in Ruttle Wood.