The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Last Victorian hunting lodge built in Scotland up for sale
‘Magnificent’ home comes with 163 acres of land
The last Victorian shooting lodge to be built in Scotland is up for sale.
Glenmarkie Lodge was built a year before the death of Queen Victoria, whose love of the Highlands encouraged Britain’s rich and powerful to follow in her footsteps.
The 1900 property near Blairgowrie is built on the tip of a beautiful glen and comes with 163 acres of land.
The nine bedroomed lodge was built for the Cox family, who owned a jute works in Dundee, which was for a time the largest in the world.
The Camperdown Works, owned by the family, employed over 14,000 people in the late 19th Century, and housed 200 power looms.
And the lodge, located at the gateway to the magnificent Cairngorms National Park would have provided a stunning getaway.
The price for the property is only available on application but it last sold 12 years ago.
General house price inflation suggests a figure in excess of £1.7 million but it could be much more as Highland lodges with less than a fifth of the land have sold for £1.5m recently.
Fully and sympathetically restored between 1998 and 2005 to capture its Victorian design and origins, the property has four reception rooms and eight bathrooms.
Also included is an indoor 10m long heated swimming pool.
Stone gate piers lead into a courtyard at the back of the house and from the front stone steps lead up to wooden front doors, over which there is a date stone of 1900.
The Cox family’s decision to build Glenmarkie followed massive investment in Highland property during the reign of Victoria.
After choosing Balmoral Castle as a holiday home during her reign, Queen Victoria set the Scottish Highlands as a fashionable destination for the wealthy.
The Cox’s Camperdown Works is now famous for its 282 foot high brick chimney, known as “Cox’s Stack”, which is Scotland’s tallest surviving industrial chimney.
Savills, who are selling the property, state: “Glenmarkie Lodge is a magnificent late Victorian shooting lodge. It was built for the Cox family, who had a successful jute business in Dundee, and is reputed to be the last Victorian shooting lodge built in Scotland.”