Archbishop's hunting lodge and 8,000-acre estate for sale for over £18.5m

An 8,000-acre estate in the Borders has gone on the market for £18.5m.

The Bowland Estate, near Galashiels, is centred around the B-listed 19th-century Bowland House.

Designed by James Gillespie Graham, the castellated Tudor-Gotic mansion features 16 bedrooms, ten bathrooms and four reception rooms.

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The house has a gun room, wine cellars, and a “meticulously restored and maintained” half-acre walled garden that supplies Edinburgh restaurants with “more unusual” produce.

Bowland House was originally built by the Archbishop of St Andrews as a hunting lodge and is thought to be shown as “Bullen House” on Roy’s Military Map of 1747-55.

The original building was incorporated into the current house during the renovations by Gillespie Graham.

There are also five cottages, a three-bedroom gatehouse at the bottom of the drive to the house, and various outbuildings.

It’s four miles north of Galashiels and 32 miles south of Edinburgh.

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The estate can be bought whole or split into eight lots, and it includes six farms and 4,400 acres of grouse moorland.

Caddonhead Moorland has 16 lines of grouse butts, a gamekeeper’s cottage and two shoot bothies along with some pasture and woodland.

Overall, the listing comprises of over 20 cottages and farmhouses suitable for letting.

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