Buyers of Skiddaw House in the Lake District will have to walk to it or drive more than three miles cross-country.Credit: Tim StewartSet in 3.45 acres, the six-bedroom pad is 1,550ft up a mountain and surrounded by other peaks — with no other building in sight. Owned by a farmer, it is billed as the “ultimate, off-grid, escape from it all bolt-hole”.Built in 1829 as a gamekeeper’s lodge, it has been used as a shooting cabin and hikers’ refuge.
Mitchells Land Agency head Andrew Wright said he expects "a lot of interest" in such an "inspiring, one-of-a-kind property". He said: "To look at it, it is quite a plain property - because it is on the side of a mountain. You don't look at any other property.Most read in Money