Wreck Of The Week

The Property: A Grade A listed folly built around 1840

The Place: Keltneybridge, Kenmore, Perthshire PH15

The Price: OIEO £150,000

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The Pain: Well, it’s in a pretty poor state and needs complete renovation – and that includes renewing the services (water, septic tank, mains electricity).

It’s Grade A listed – Grade I in England – so you will be restricted in what you can do.

The Scottish Offers Over system means it will probably fetch a lot more than £150,000 and the price of the renovation is estimated at around £60,000.

The Gain: This really is a one off – a unique and quirky home that looks a bit like a Chinese pavilion.

Some wonderful original features are still intact, notably the slate roof and the high piend-roofed portico at the front with undulating eaves and distinctive rustic log colonnades, painted in a striking red.

The underside of the portico is elaborately decorated and there are other unusual decorative elements in the stonework of the building. The agent reckons when finished it will be worth up to £250,000.

It’s most likely going to be a lifestyle purchase and would make a fantastic second home – the surrounding countryside is beautiful and there are numerous facilities to keep you entertained: nine and 18 hole golf courses, sailing and watersports, salmon and trout fishing on lochs and rivers, climbing and walking.

Rustic Lodge lies approximately 1.7 miles east of Kenmore, an 18th century planned settlement at the mouth of Loch Tay. The village provides local shopping, post office, hotel and church.

The Agent: Savills (Tel: 01738 477525)