An entire private island on the west coast of the west coast of Scotland, completed with a ruined castle, a working farm and a group of holiday homes outside the net, reaches the market for the first time in almost 80 years.
Shuna, an island of 1,100 hectares in the inland hebrides, is offered for about $ 7.44 million, marking the end of an age for a family that has been administered since World War II.
The Gully family has owned the island since 1945, when Viscountess Selby, who went to the war, entered a real estate agency in London and asked -a little famous, if they had “islands in the books”.
As the family legend happens, they had one. She bought her without a view and moved her family to the advanced of the Atlantic.
“It was a very traumatic time for many people and was looking for a new beginning,” his grandson, Jim Gully, told Bloomberg. “They thought it was a fairly eccentric question.”
Shuna has approximately 3 kilometers for 1.5 miles, Shuna has dramatic coasts, isolated coves, white sandy beaches and rich biodiversity, from red deer and fallen to eagles, stamps and dolphins.
It can only be accessed by boat or helicopter, without cars, roads or full cell service, an increasingly rare recoil of modernity.
“It has really been a dream island and an important part of all our lives,” Gully said. He and his brother were enrolled on the island for his grandfather. “It was such an idyllic place to grow and explore and have adventures.”
The island is currently supporting a modest tourism business. Seven rural houses, rented seasonally from April to October, can accommodate up to 52 guests.
Each includes its own boat and the activities range from the sheep meeting to the archery.
“It is a very simple and relaxed configuration,” Gully said, emphasizing that many guests return year after year, they often cover generations.
The power is supplied by solar panels, wind turbines and generators, as Shuna is out of the national mains. There is also an eighth house historically used by the island’s caregivers, who have managed the island for the last dozen years.
The most amazing structure of the island, however, is its castle, or what is left.
Built in 1911 by George Buckley, a New Zealand adventurer who made a fortune during the Australian golden rush, the turret mansion aimed to be the prototype of a new type of castle -style homes in the United States.
But fate intervened.
“The plans for this went down with the Titanic,” Gully told BBC Scotland News. “He stopped many flat roof castles built in America.”
Buckley, who had recently returned from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition, did not save any expenses. Runners estimate that the cost of the original construction would be the equivalent of about $ 13.6 million to $ 40.9 million.
But in the 1980’s, the design of the Pla del Castell roof did not show a party for the Scottish climate and fell in poor condition.
“But I guess only having the flat roof was not a terribly good design feature in Scotland,” Gully told Bloomberg.
Gully, who lived in the castle as a child, remembers moving the furniture to find safe points where he would not fall on the floor.
“It still seems very impressive although there are trees growing through the windows,” he told the BBC.
The history of the island extends far beyond the 20th century. Archaeological findings suggest human settlement until 9,000 years ago. In the fourteenth century, it was donated by Robert el Bruce to Clan Campbell and then passed to the Macleans.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, its population reached 80 years, evidenced today by lime kilns, burial mounds and the ruins of the old farms.
Jim Gully’s father, Edward, at the age of 80, has moved to the island of Seil nearby and the family is ready to transmit Shuna to a new generation.
“We did what we can with the island,” Gully told Bloomberg. “We have not had a lot of funds to invest in transforming it. So the idea that someone can come and invest and return to life the island is exciting.”
Alex Collins, by Sotheby International Realty and Knight Frank, who sell the property, say that the interest has gone from those looking for a Boutique hospitality company to the achievement of defenders and families in search of an isolated multigenerational compound.
The list suggests that Shuna would be “perfectly adequate” for a well -being destination.
Whether you buy or a children’s conservation park or for a luxury ecological withdrawal, the next chapter on the island is still written. But for the Gully family, the page is activating a defining part of their legacy.
“It has been an important part of our lives,” Gully told the BBC. “Without a doubt sad that all this is over, but it has a relief for my father.”
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