A fantastic island off the southern coast of Arran has simply gone up on the market for lower than the value of a four-bedroom home in Edinburgh. The tiny uninhabited island of Pladda comes with its personal lighthouse and helipad in addition to loads of lodging.
Recognisable because the small teardrop-shaped landmass you spy off the coast of Arran on the ferry from Ardrossan to Campbelltown, Pladda is positioned within the Firth of Clyde and is simply about 700m lengthy and simply over 33 acres in dimension.
The £350k sale comes with a former Lighthouse Keeper’s lodging together with two reception rooms, 5 bedrooms and a toilet, in addition to a separate lodging together with a bed room, bathe room, kitchen and sitting room.
Tom Stewart-Moore of property brokers Knight Frank, stated that there's additionally an in depth vary of conventional outbuildings with "improvement potential", alongside a former walled backyard extending to about 2.5 acres and even a helipad.
He added: "From the lighthouse and vary of related buildings, there are dramatic far-reaching views trying South to Ailsa Craig, the Kintyre Peninsula and Northern Eire on a transparent day."
And people apprehensive about having to man the lighthouse needn't, first put in on the island in 1790, the station was totally automated in 1990 and is now remotely monitored from the Northern Lighthouse Boards Headquarters in Edinburgh.
Accessible by boat and helicopter, the island is just below a mile from the close by island of Arran with Glasgow simply accessible from Ardrossan.
Mr Stewart-Moore confirmed that the lodging has not been used in recent times and can must be upgraded.
To the east of the buildings, there are the fantastic intensive former Keeper’s walled gardens. With excessive stone-built partitions, they prolong to about 2.5 acres in whole. Beforehand used to develop fruit and greens for the Keepers, the gardens have now all gone to grass.
The island is a crucial breeding floor and stop-off level for quite a lot of migratory seabirds.
Over 100 species of birds have been recorded on Pladda island previously. The island has profitable breeding colonies of Artic Terns, quite a lot of gull species, Turnstones and Shags.
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