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Wednesday, 01/Oct/2008
Islay House on Historic Scotland
Since Islay House was put on the market last year economic conditions haven't exactly been favourable (does that count as understatement of the week?). I don't know what the very latest is, but in July the asking price was reduced to £1,750,000, the price Islay House is currently listed at. Even at that price I guess it will be difficult to sell and I haven't heard anything further about a potential community buyout either, which is sad considering some information I recently found on Historic Scotland:
Islay House is listed on the Historic Scotland website with quite a lot of information about the gardens and the house. The overview description reads:
A late 18th century picturesque landscape extended and elaborated in the 19th century, which lay at the centre of major agricultural and landscape development on Islay. In any context this is a large and ambitious eighteenth and nineteenth century landscape with many elements of great interest, however on Islay it is of outstanding importance.
The Site History provides a lot of information and background, although it isn't fully up to date with the development of the Islay House Community Garden project. There is a Photo Gallery with a variety of pictures mainly of the gardens.
Definitely worth exploring further!
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