Morvich Estate, one of Scotland's 'finest Highland estates,' has been listed for sale at a guide price of £7.5 million. The estate spans approximately 4,900 acres (nearly 2,000 hectares) and is centred around the historic Grade B Listed Morvich Lodge, a seven-bedroom sporting lodge retaining original period features such as grand reception rooms, open fireplaces, working timber shutters, flagstone flooring, and a traditional Aga.
Estate Overview and Location
Located near Rogart in Sutherland, Morvich Estate combines sporting, environmental, agricultural, and lifestyle opportunities. It includes the main lodge, five additional residential properties, productive farmland, mature woodland, and renowned sporting interests. The estate also offers significant natural capital potential. Situated just 10 miles from Dornoch and around 51 miles from Inverness, it enjoys a secluded setting on the east coast of Sutherland while remaining well connected to transport links. The nearby village of Pittentrail features a local shop, petrol station, primary school, garage, hotel with pub, and village hall.
Residential Properties
Complementing the main lodge are five additional residential properties: a substantial five-bedroom guest lodge currently operated as a successful holiday let, a traditional farmhouse with significant redevelopment potential, two attractive keeper's houses, and Pittentrail Lodge. These offer flexibility for extended family living or accommodation for estate staff. The main lodge is surrounded by mature gardens and a tennis court, with sprawling lawns, mature beds, borders, azaleas, laburnum, and specimen trees.
Landscape and Biodiversity
The estate's diverse landscapes include the River Fleet floodplain providing around 380 acres of good quality in-bye low ground suitable for grazing and arable cropping, extensive native birch, alder, and oak woodland, rolling heather-clad hills, and wetlands. This creates exceptional scenic beauty and biodiversity, with habitats of international importance supporting abundant wildlife.
Sporting and Environmental Opportunities
Morvich is renowned as one of Sutherland's most versatile sporting estates, offering stalking deer, wildfowling across extensive wetlands, and potential for walked-up grouse shooting. There is salmon and sea trout fishing on approximately 2.6 miles of the River Fleet, along with brown trout fishing on several hill lochs. The estate also offers scope for future environmental initiatives and long-term stewardship.
Rod Christie from Galbraith commented: 'Morvich is an exceptional estate which offers an enormous range of potential uses. It includes a stunning seven-bedroom lodge and several other estate houses, wonderfully diverse sporting and farming opportunities and magnificent highland scenery including heather clad hills looking out to the Dornoch Firth. For the environmentalist, the estate’s varied and rich habitats, including wetlands of international importance, support an abundance of wildlife while offering scope for future environmental initiatives and long-term stewardship. In essence, Morvich is everything you would want from an iconic Highland Estate.'
