Colin’s £1m mansion... f it for Jack and Victor!
HOME to one of Scotland’s biggest Lottery winners, it could easily have been an eye-watering exhibition of wealth over taste.
Instead, estate agents found the late Colin Weir’s £1million mansion as down-to-earth as a well-loved Craiglang flat.
And despite his will listing ‘artworks’ worth more than £200,000, pride of place on the kitchen wall went to a framed caricature of the Still Game cast.
Mr Weir and his former wife Christine scooped £161million on the Euromillions jackpot in 2011 before splitting.
And now his former home within an area of Ayr known as ‘The Mansions’ is on the market.
‘It’s the last word in luxury – but
I’m fascinated by the cartoon of Still Game characters on the kitchen wall,’ said one property expert yesterday.
‘It’s a million-pound house but it seems Colin’s heart lies in Craiglang. You expect lottery winners’ homes to be over-the-top affairs but Colin’s house has been decorated in subtle tones, conservative almost.’
Mr Weir, who died aged 71 last December, bought the five-bed property when he split with his wife after 38 years of marriage.
It is described as a modern executive villa boasting 4,500sq ft of luxury living, its own internal lift and breathtaking sea views towards the Isle of Arran.
Mr Weir’s will showed that he gifted his share of £3million Frognal House in Troon, Ayrshire, to his ex-wife, 64.
Last week, it was revealed that the former STV cameraman had burned through £40million in just eight years.
Among his possessions outlined in his will were furniture, jewellery and ‘artworks’ worth £212,000.
However, the most prominent art on display is a colour caricature of characters from the smash hit BBC comedy Still Game.
Jack and Victor are flanked by friends including Isa, Methadone Mick, Winston and Navid.
The brochure from selling agents
Corum describes the property – which has an asking price of offers over £995,000 – as ‘a once-in-ageneration opportunity’ to acquire a truly special home in one of the rarest seafront locations’.
There are four public rooms, five bedrooms, four bathrooms and half an acre of landscaped grounds, with ornamental pond.
The brochure adds: ‘The impressive individual design takes full advantage of spectacular, uninterrupted, sea views to the west over the Firth of Clyde to Arran.
‘The stunning garden ground of approximately 0.5 of an acre affords a high degree of privacy.’