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Country house for sale
Glass, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
£5,000,000
Glass, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
£5,000,000
Our Summary
- The estate is managed by Highlands Rewilding primarily for natural capital uplift—biodiversity and carbon-based projects, nature restoration and community prosperity
- Beldorney has several blocks of conifer plantation and an area of native woodland with clear potential for restoration, species rich grasslands and riparian and other wetland vegetation
- The estate also has the potential for further development to re-people this area, containing ten ruined crofts, which have scope for future residential development subject to due diligence and planning consent
- The cottage is uninhabited and in need of full refurbishment
- These buildings may have potential for residential conversion, subject to due diligence and planning consent
- The house was last occupied in 2009 and is in need of a full refurbishment
- Previously a farm for stock rearing, the Mains has strong potential for redevelopment and use as an enterprise hub, with good access via the road to the highway
- However, established figures and models suggest that one might expect up to 80% more carbon in typical soils of these kinds, indicating strong potential for increasing the grassland carbon sink
- CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND BIODIVERSITY UPLIFT OPPORTUNITIESCombining carbon storage in grassland soils, woodland biomass, woodland soils and peat, estimates partly based on measurement and partly on modelling suggest a total in the range of 114,044 to 178,585 tonnes of CO equivalent (tCO2e)
- Together these give a rich and often surprising picture of diversity on the estate, with some areas having enormous value for many different species, such as wetland, native woodland areas, pockets of species-rich grasslands and heathland, and others being notably lacking, providing high future potential for biodiversity uplift
Description
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Here is a summary of the property description in a single paragraph:
Beldorney Estate, a 351-hectare grassland-dominated property in Aberdeenshire, is being sold by Highlands Rewilding, a company focused on nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding. The estate has undergone significant management changes, including regenerative agriculture and ecological restoration, to increase biodiversity and carbon sequestration. The property features a 16th-century tower house, two stone cottages, and a farmhouse, as well as potential for further development. The estate is managed as a multi-habitat open air natural capital laboratory, generating data for natural capital credits. The company is open to selling the estate to a buyer who will continue to manage it in line with their nature recovery goals, or to a buyer who will use the property for their own purposes.