7 bed detached house for sale

Gatehouse Of Fleet, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway DG7

A traditionally agricultural estate in one of the most picturesque valleys in the Scottish Southern Uplands offering potential for the redevelopment of some spectacularly situated residential properties together with a variety of future land uses.

Residential property

Two substantial traditional stone and slate farmhouses and two cottages in both habitable and uninhabitable condition and in each case requiring varying extents of capital expenditure for their restoration as principal and supplementary residences serving the estate.

Estate and farm buildings

Three separate ranges of traditional stone and slate farm buildings which are now largely obsolete for agricultural use together with some 20th Century agricultural buildings in a mixed state of repair.

Agricultural land

Land of mixed grade and use dominated by open hill ground on the western slopes of the Water of Fleet valley complemented and enclosed by permanent pasture and grass leys in the valley
bottom. Farmed on an in-hand basis under grazing agreements.

Existing and potential forestry/woodland

About 69 acres of existing mature conifer plantations established to provide shelter and as pheasant coverts for a driven shoot together with about 214 acres of existing broadleaf/native
woodland. Extensive potential for the establishment of further native woodland together with associated carbon accreditation subject to consultation with, and consent from, Scottish Forestry.

With the Water of Fleet forming its western boundary, Cally Estate lies on the western side of a valley which is amongst the lesser known natural historical delights of the Scottish Southern Uplands.

Draining the eastern slopes of the imposing 2,366-foot peak of Cairnsmore of Fleet, the Big Water of Fleet is formed from the confluence of several hill burns at the heart of the Galloway Hills. On leaving its extensively afforested headwaters, the river follows a southerly course through a beautiful landscape characterised by open hill ground of heather and mixed grasses with extensive areas of native deciduous woodland interspersed with stands of coniferous woodland planted for both agricultural and sporting purposes.Draining the eastern slopes of the imposing 2,366-foot peak
of Cairnsmore of Fleet, the Big Water of Fleet is formed from the confluence of several hill burns at the heart of the Galloway Hills. On leaving its extensively afforested headwaters, the river follows a southerly course through a beautiful landscape
characterised by open hill ground of heather and mixed grasses with extensive areas of native deciduous woodland interspersed with stands of coniferous woodland planted for both agricultural and sporting purposes.

Joined by its principal tributary, the Little Water of Fleet beside the ancient oak wood of Castramon (a Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserve), the Water of Fleet continues its largely woodland-clad course through an agricultural landscape of improving quality to the village of Gatehouse-of-Fleet where
it meets its tidal waters. From here it passes an 18th Century harbour (Port Macadam) and then drains into the Irish Sea via Fleet and Wigtown Bays.