SOME grand Scottish estates are making market waves but if they prove too rich for your blood, head for a laird’s house in Aber-deenshire. The Kinrara estate on Speyside, including some of the UK’s most sensitive and important habitats, has a grouse moor, stalking and salmon and trout fishing, runs to more than 9,300 acres. Kinrara, for sale through Galbraith, has forestry, farming and conservation elements, too, forming part of the Monadhliath range of hills.
Kinrara House, once part of the estate, was built in the late 1700s by the Duchess of Gordon. Loyal to the monarchy, the Duchess toured the villages of Scotland recruiting troops, who reputedly took the King’s Shilling from between her lips, eventually leading to the formation of the Gordon Highlanders.
John Bound of Galbraith says:…
