Step outside on a September morning and red deer are picking their way across the hillside above Loch Maree before you've even made your first coffee. That's not a postcard. That's Tuesday at Kinlochmaree House.
Built in 1895 and sitting on 1.4 acres at the edge of Kinlochewe village in Ross-shire, this is one of those rare Scottish properties that actually delivers on every promise the Highlands makes. Eight bedrooms, five bathrooms, a self-contained apartment already earning around £28,000 a year in holiday let income, and a garden wall that quite literally borders the Beinn Eighe and Loch Maree Islands National Nature Reserve — the oldest National Nature Reserve in Britain. Properties like this don't appear often. When they do, serious buyers move fast.
The house itself has been taken apart and put back together properly. Not a cosmetic refresh — a ground-up renovation covering new insulation, new heat generation systems, underfloor heating in the kitchen, utility room and family bathroom, double and triple glazing throughout, full re-plumbing, full re-wiring, re-rendering, a new kitchen, and all-new sanitary fittings. The kind of work that means you can move in, light the wood-burning stove in the drawing room, and not spend your first winter dealing with inherited problems.
And yet none of the Victorian bones have been lost. The original pitch pine staircase is still here, its banister worn smooth by 130 years of hands. The flagstone entrance porch. The generous ceiling heights and wide hallway that gives the ground floor that unhurried quality you simply can't retrofit. The drawing room and dining room each have their own wood-burning stoves — on a wet October evening, both rooms glow in a way that makes you for ... click here to read more
