The best sporting estates for sale

The best sporting estates for sale – from a private island on the market for the first time in 80 years to a 19th-century castle set in 3,702 acres in Argyll and Bute.

Sporting estates for sale: Shuna Island, Arduaine, Oban
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Mullardoch Estate, Inverness-shire

This 4,261.7-acre estate is currently run as a mixed conservation and sporting area and has four off-grid cabins, deer stalking, grouse and ptarmigan shooting. The land includes Caledonian pine woods and two Monros, Tom a’ Choinich and Tom Creagach.

Price: £1.85m+ Galbraith Group 01334-659980

Glengorm Estate, Glengorm, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute

A 19th-century, B-listed castle set in 3,702 acres that includes seashore, hill grazing, red-deer stalking, a pedigree livestock farm, a herd of Highland cattle, a holiday-letting business and 17 estate properties.

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Price: £9m+ Savills 0131-247 3720

Ruie & Keanchulish Estate, Ullapool, Ross-shire

A coastal estate with a substantial lodge house overlooking Ardmair Bay. The estate includes two cottages, farm buildings, deer stalking, salmon and trout fishing, and an established shoot with ten drives focusing on duck, French partridge and pheasant. 9-bed lodge, two 3-bed cottages, woodland, peatland, 7,807 acres.

Price: £4.5m+ Strutt & Parker 01463-719171

Culverlands, Burghfield Common, Berkshire

A Grade II-listed Georgian house set in grounds with grassland planted within a Countryside Stewardship Scheme, providing good cover for the family shoot. 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 4 receptions, breakfast kitchen, study office, home cinema, gym, 2-bed lodge, stable courtyard, tennis court, swimming pool, landscaped gardens, woodland, paddocks, farmland, 15.5 acre vineyard, 146.3 acres.

Price: £7.25m Knight Frank 01256-630978

Shuna Island, Arduaine, Oban, Argyll and Bute

This west-coast island has come onto the market for the first time in 80 years. The estate comprises around 1,110 acres of grounds that include a castle that fell into disrepair in the 1980s, a main house, seven holiday lets, a boat house with two bedrooms, and a livestock farm. It comes with sporting rights for shooting and stalking within the grounds, which also include a helipad, slipway, pontoon, woodland and shoreline.

Price: £5.5m+ Knight Frank 0131-222 9600

Bryn Bella, Saron, near Denbigh, Denbighshire

A renovated house overlooking the Vale of Clwyd with new stables, a manège and paddocks. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 receptions, study, conservatory, kitchen, open-fronted store, gardens, parking, pasture, 8.8 acres.

Price: £795,000 Jackson-Stops 01244-328361

Wark Estate, Wark, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland

An agricultural and residential estate on the River Tweed with a main house, three cottages, farm buildings and commercial workshops. It comes with two salmon beats, a low ground shoot and roe-deer stalking. 6-bed main house, 2 receptions and gardens. Arable land, grass and rough grazing, woodland, fishing rights, 967.8 acres.

Price: £1.3m+-£13.5m+. Available in lots. Savills 0131-247 3720

The Oldcastle Estate, Dallington, East Sussex

A Grade II-listed house with farmland and woodland that’s ideal for a family shoot. It has exposed wall and ceiling timbers and log-burning stoves. 10 bedrooms, 2 receptions, kitchen, 3-bed annexe, 3 barns, walled garden, tennis court, outdoor swimming pool, two 2-bed cottages, 3-bed cottage, 4-bed farmhouse, 336.5 acres.

Price: £7,035,000. Available in lots. Knight Frank 020-3869 4570


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