The ultimate home for a golfer: luxuriously restored former home of a Scottish whisky dynasty and Field Marshall Haig for sale

Enjoy the finest that contemporary country living has to offer for the price of a central London flat, including an Art Deco cinema, wine cellar and a walled garden.
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Becky Davies4 January 2018

A house that has everything for country living in the grandest of style has gone on the market for the price of a two-bedroom flat in Marylebone.

Trade in a modest-sized £1.75million London home for eight bedrooms — all en suite of course — a cinema and five acres of landscaped grounds, including a walled garden, summer house and two Victorian-style glasshouses.

There’s also a library, a wine cellar, a 900sq ft two-bedroom lodge for any guests you might want to keep at arm’s length, a stable yard and a four-car garage.

The recently restored, grade C listed, house was built in 1860 for the Haig family, the oldest distillers in Scotland and was clearly designed to be the most imposing of residences, with its battlemented tower sitting right over the front door.

Its most famous resident was Field Marshal Douglas Haig, who led many battles during the First World War, including the notorious Battle of the Somme and the Third Battle of Ypres.

Eden Mansion, covering 8,500sq ft, could easily make a permanent home, but thanks to its location could also make the ultimate in golf properties because it is just a few minutes’ drive from the world-famous St Andrews course.

Not only does it sit in the most splendid of gardens, but sits around a central courtyard, providing plenty of light on both sides to the vast rooms.

The house is currently being run as a boutique hotel and the owners have spent the last four years on a no expense spared restoration, while providing all mod cons for modern living.

The house sits in five acres of landscaped gardens and grounds. (Savills)

The grand reception hall leads to the morning room, with two bay windows, which in turn leads into the library with its French doors to the gardens.

The drawing room also has bay windows as well as a splendid chandelier, and there is not only a dining kitchen but a servery one, both fitted with highest-spec equipment, including four ovens, an Aga and a pantry.

There’s no need to wash and dry your clothes in the kitchen in this property; it’s got a utility room complete with another fridge-freezer.

This room leads to cosy snug overlooking a terrace, should the vast dimensions of the main reception rooms ever get too much.

Enjoy elegant living in one of the seven reception rooms.
Savills

Down a corridor lies the newly installed cinema room, finished in Art Deco style, bringing that nostalgic pre-war Odeon feel to your screenings.

One of the bedroom suites is also on the ground floor, complete with dressing room, while the other seven bedrooms are upstairs, the entire building floored in polished oak.

Outside, there are terraces and patios galore, mature trees and shrubs, but the star of the show is the walled garden, complete with central fountain and two huge glasshouses divided by a garden room for enjoying the best of the winter sun in the warmth.

The tower also has a roof terrace which would make an ideal spot for star-gazing, with views unfettered by trees and the buildings.

An 1890 lodge is also grade C listed and has been renovated to include not only two bedrooms, a kitchen and bathroom, but a dining room and sitting room.

Leuchars station is a mile down the road, with regular trains to Kings Cross taking as little as six hours.

However, a much more romantic journey would be the six times a week sleeper train that leaves Leuchars at 11.25pm and gets you into Euston for 7am.

Eden Mansion is for sale through Savills for £1.75million