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Last chance to buy England’s most remote property and slice of Lake District ….

by CWH
13 November 2022
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Skiddaw House

If you want to buy England’s most remote property and the largest amount of Lake District land on the market – you only have 10 days to put in an offer.

Skiddaw House and a large swathe of Skiddaw Forest was put on the open market in September by Mitchells Land Agency – but it looks as though no buyers for this unique deal have come forward as they remain for sale and now the agents have added a closing date for applications.

No asking price as been revealed publicly – those interested will only find out when they approach the agency to buy it.

On offer is around 3,000 acres of Skiddaw Forest – including the summits of Skiddaw, Great Calva and Little Calva – plus Skiddaw House.

In September, Andrew Wright, head of Mitchell’s Land Agency, said: “It is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind property, being one of the largest areas of the Lake District National Park ever to be sold. This is the only time the property has been sold on the open market since the property was built and we expect a lot of interest.”

Skiddaw House was previously put up for sale last year, without the 3,000 acres.

The Skiddaw Forest moorland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Skiddaw Forest

Mitchells said: “The expanse of land currently enjoys substantial payments from two separate Higher Level Stewardship schemes which end in 2024, with a possible option for an agreement extension going into 2025.

“Both schemes seek to restore upland bird and dwarf heathland habitats as well as the peatland bogs which
are scattered across the land. It is anticipated that this block will be invited into DEFRA’s forthcoming Environmental Land Management Scheme with opportunities to enter either the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Local Nature Recovery and Local landscape recovery tiers.”

Shooting and fishing rights are included in the sale.

Skiddaw Forest

England’s most remote property

Skiddaw House is the only dwelling in Skiddaw Forest and is England’s remotest property. Currently a YHA bunkhouse, it is off-grid and only accessible by foot or 4×4.

Built as a gamekeeper’s lodge by the Earl of Egremont in 1829, writers John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hugh Walpole were hugely influenced by this starkly magnificent countryside. After spending time exploring the area, Walpole was inspired to pen his gruesome thriller, The Fortress, which he set in Skiddaw House.

Skiddaw House

Over the years tenancy shepherds came and went with the longest resident being Dalton Pearson who made Skiddaw House his home for 12 years, from 1957 to 1969, with a goat, five dogs and a cat for company.

A long spell followed where the property remained empty until 1986 when it was converted into what was to become Britain’s highest youth hostel.

Skiddaw House is powered by the sun, watered by a natural spring and ingeniously heated by sheep’s wool insulation and wood burning stoves.

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