Historic Belmont House put up for sale
Ryan Nicolson
The historic Belmont House in Unst has gone on the market – 25 years after it was restored to its former glory.
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom Georgian building comes with two acres of landscaped grounds – for a price of £395,000.
It celebrated its 25th anniversary of being rescued and restored earlier this year.
The A-listed home and its surrounding grounds were purchased by the newly-formed Belmont Trust for only £5 in 1996 as it fell into disrepair.
The restoration programme cost the trust over £1 million.
In the intervening years Belmont has welcomed over 1,400 guests and hosted weddings, birthdays and family gatherings.
The 18th-century home is listed for sale by Harper Macleod: https://www.estateagencyshetland.co.uk/properties/belmont-house
robert sandison
So restoration cost £ 1 million yet its only worth £395,000 ?
Brian Harris
And how much, if any, of that £1M was money from public sources?