Bob Dylan, famously dubbed as one in every of America’s ‘biggest songwriters’, is well a family title for a lot of – however do you know that he owns a longtime house within the Scottish Highlands? The truth is, it is up on the market proper now, and we have got an insider take a look at what precisely he is had cooking up on this superb property.
It isn’t every single day you get a tour of a celeb house, a lot much less a tour of a 60s music icon’s house. This stately mansion, often called Aultmore Home in Nethy Bridge within the Cairngorm Nationwide Park in Scotland has been an prolonged house to the artist for the final 17 years. Nevertheless, after being unable to go to because the pandemic, Bob Dylan has determined to listing the property on the market.
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Inside Bob Dylan’s Scottish Highland property
Knight Frank has listed Bob Dylan’s elegant, totally refurbished Highland nation home, accepting gives in extra of £3 million. The 18,357 sq. toes manor boasts a extremely beneficiant 16 bedrooms with stunning backyard views, 11 loos, and 4 reception rooms, on 25 acres of land – and it is really superb.
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Approached by way of a personal tree-lined driveway, the Edwardian Nation manor was initially accomplished in 1914 and has been meticulously maintained, retaining most of the options and designs on its exterior, together with massive home windows and a sublime columned central block flanked by two stone gazebos.
The property underwent important renovations from 2007 to 2008, with substantial upgrades made to the interior wiring, heating, and sizzling water methods to enhance the standard of life within the house, nonetheless, its interval components stay. Upon simply first look alone, it is a treasure to the attention that merely can’t be missed.
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The within, nonetheless, is a complete different surprise in itself. The doorway corridor encompasses a limestone staircase with wrought iron and picket bannisters, with 4 reception rooms boasting beautiful Adam-style marble fireplaces. The billiard room, drawing room, sitting room, and eating room, however, are totally outfitted with dreamy open fireplaces.
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The interval craftsmanship of the house has additionally been closely retained, with superbly detailed plasterwork on ceilings and archways, and timber flooring and facings all through. It is actually a lesson for our personal interval lounge concepts, you recognize, minus the utter ‘grandness’ of all of it.
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In an property this huge, you already know that entertaining areas won’t ever fall brief. A number of leisure areas within the Highland house embody a lounge and backyard room, to not point out its large 25 acres of landscaped grounds boasting stunning gardens with fountains, statues, and even three cottages which have been rented to holidaymakers.
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Not solely that, however the property has additionally been obtainable as a marriage venue and was featured in BBC’s Monarch of the Glen, proving the property’s excessive recognition for historic and architectural significance.
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Surprisingly, all through the home tour, we got here throughout no recording studios and the like, and even nods to Bob Dylan’s profession all through the property, indicating that it was extra probably a vacation house to step away from all of the insanity that comes with the profession.
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It is a fantastic property, to say the least – and fairly the enjoyable truth for whoever will get to snag this house subsequent. Oh, what we would give to have the ability to boast that our properties was once occupied by an icon within the music trade. Now, that is a dialog starter.
