This 16th-century citadel is seeking a new owner who is willing to walk the plank — literally.
In a historic Scottish village, the landmarked Blairlogie Castle has hit the market for $1.76 million.
Among other ancient and quirky features, the abode boasts a top-floor library with a ceiling composed of ship’s timbers, an arch connecting a cottage to the main house — and a blue-painted room that can only be accessed by walking that plank.
That strange fitting appears to be located a few feet above a stair’s landing, the wooden plank connected to its entrance, and nothing that seems to offer any real safeguards against a fall. Not only would a solid bank balance buy the home, but a sense of balance would help as well.
Another curious feature can be found in the cloakroom, where there are original meat hooks hanging from the ceiling, according to the Scotsman, which interviewed its longtime owner Gordon Adam back in May.
Despite these unusual original details, the “property offers comfortable rooms and a sensible layout for modern family occupation,” according to its listing, which is held by Savills and formally billed as a “Historic country house with stunning hillside setting above conservation village.”
The primary residence, entered through a vaulted hallway, has a wine cellar, a kitchen, a sitting room, a dining room, a drawing room, a pantry, and a 500-or-so-year-old oak door and stone fireplaces from the same era.
Spiral stairs lead up to the library, and in all there are six bedrooms and four bathrooms.
The adjacent cottage offers an additional living room with a fuel stove, a bathroom with a sauna and a sloped ceiling.
Also on the 2.6-acre property are stone stables converted for human use, two garages and extensively landscaped gardens including “many unusual plants and specimens,” as well as waterfalls and a large greenhouse and barbecue area.
Blairlogie, the town for which the castle is named, sits below the estate and is “the earliest of Scotland’s officially designated Conservation Areas,” and is defined by a cluster of white houses dating mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries, many with red pan-tile roofs.
