Country estate of the month

GLENSTRIVEN ESTATE, DUNOON, ARGYLL

This residential and sporting estate is set on the Cowal Peninsula. The main property, Glenstriven House, has 10 bedrooms with views over Loch Striven. There are also four other cottages and houses in the sale, including a lochside cottage, a galleried lodge house and a converted smokehouse. Among the outbuildings are a panelled shoot room and a keeper’s maisonette. The estate even has its own private pub, the Glenstriven Arms, which was converted from an old generator building. There are just over 1,000 acres in total, including coastal gardens, 834 acres of hill and 79 acres of woods. The sport includes a high-bird pheasant shoot and red and roe deer stalking. There is sailing and sea fishing and the estate has its own pier and slipway. Glenstriven is 49 miles from Glasgow.

Agents: Strutt & Parker and John Clegg & Co Tel: 0131 718 4593 or 0131 229 8800

Offers: in excess of £2.785m