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Tasteful friends, do you want to live like an American actress who married the grandson of a queen and failed as a duchess?

If you have an extremely rich father-in-law you're willing to blackmail into buying this for you, or you'll write a tell-all and ensure he'll never see his son again, then all this can be yours.

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by Anonymousreply 10March 26, 2020 10:50 AM

It’s rather stony.

by Anonymousreply 1March 25, 2020 10:54 PM

Castle on the outside, McMansion on the inside :(

by Anonymousreply 2March 26, 2020 2:55 AM

Did they deliberately try to eradicate all the original features ? Previous owner a footballer or middle eastern ?

by Anonymousreply 3March 26, 2020 4:05 AM

Really nice exterior, though.

by Anonymousreply 4March 26, 2020 9:56 AM

Why is the interior so hideous and cheap looking?

by Anonymousreply 5March 26, 2020 10:07 AM

OP, I really hope that Meghan and Harry have a restraining order against you, because your obsession with them is not normal.

And one day you’re going to visit them in their little stone house and climb through an open window. You’re a very sick personality, OP. Get help.

by Anonymousreply 6March 26, 2020 10:11 AM

OP's pickie was taken on the one day a year it was sunny in Scotland.

by Anonymousreply 7March 26, 2020 10:11 AM

I'm a rather innocent person, with some questions. It seems obvious who the prior inhabitants were, but I've never read anything that would connect them. Who were the prior inhabitants? I'm not being disingenuous.

by Anonymousreply 8March 26, 2020 10:16 AM

Nice grounds and views inside looks like a bordello.

by Anonymousreply 9March 26, 2020 10:22 AM

Of all of the Robert Adam houses, this one has some of the least exceptional interiors. The spaces are nice, of course, but not up to what the expectation of the architect's name brings. It's an interesting design, a massive fortification of massive impact, but not. In fact, the main block of the house is fairly modest in size compared to many country houses. It originally had ten bedrooms (again, a big house, but not by country house standards). The U-shaped forecourt has stables to the block on the right and domestic working spaces (kitchens, etc.) to the block on the left, with some carryover domestic spaces houses in the connecting parts nearest the house proper (a breakfast room, a secondary dining room, etc.)

The spaces are all about volumes and spare details, a bit opposite to Adam's more famous works, but they are elegant in the same sort of bold, spare aesthetic of the stone exterior. It's a pity these can't be appreciated well for the interiors: evidently a used car salesman won the lotto and furnished it all in one exhausting day from a designer who drove up in a white van with some swatches and a Wayfair catalogue. It's awful, the kitchen worse, and the worst of all are the fucking curtains and the valances that crop off the tops of the Palladian windows - the best design feature of the interior lost to coke den curtains.

I suppose it would be a good property for OP's clients, huge and flashy on the outside, low maintenance and Footballers' Wives on the inside, and separate wings to house teams and influencers and pesky children and childcarers.

For that money, I'd buy a big fucking splendid pile of a townhouse on Moray Place in Edinburgh, not out under the flypath of the airport.

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