Argyll estate made famous in McCartney song up for sale

A COUNTRY estate made famous by Sir Paul McCartney's song Mull of Kintyre is up for sale at almost £3million

The 7,360-acre Carskiey Estate forms the Mull of Kintyre, which the former Beatle sang about with his band of the time Wings in the 1977 hit song. The Argyllshire estate, which includes the Edwardian Carskiey House and nine miles of coastline, is up for sale at offers over 2.95million.

McCartney, who lived in nearby High Park Farm, once said of the song: "I certainly loved Scotland enough, so I came up with a song about where we were living; an area called Mull of Kintyre. It was a love song really, imagining I was travelling away and wanting to get back there."

The Carskey Estate, as it was originally called, was the former seat of the MacNeills of Carskey from the early 16th century until it was bought and upgraded in the early 1900s.

Overlooking Carskey Bay, the nine-bedroom house, which has been described as a "wonder of Edwardian design", has been relatively untouched since it was first built except for being rewired in 1989.

It features the Edwardian equivalent of a spa, a hydropathic bathroom with a "ship's deck" floor and shower hoses for fresh and salt water.

The sale also includes nine estate houses and cottages in varying states of repair and a farming business.

The estate has nine miles of coastline and sandy beaches including the crescent-shaped Carskey Bay.