Bob Dylan puts Highland mansion retreat up for sale

US vocalist songwriter Bob Dylan is selling his Scottish Highland retreat.

The 82-year-old down hits specified arsenic Blowin' successful the Wind and Like a Rolling Stone has owned Aultmore House and property for 17 years.

The spot successful Nethy Bridge successful the Cairngorm National Park has gone connected the marketplace for offers implicit £3m.

The 16-bedroom A-Listed stately location was purchased by Dylan and his member David Zimmerman for £2.2m. They person not visited since the pandemic.

The main location has respective reception rooms, including a euphony room, 11 bathrooms and a further 7 attic bedrooms.

In the grounds determination are cottages, a ample greenhouse, walled garden, follies, fountain and croquet lawn.

Tom Stewart-Moore, from property agents Knight Frank, said the Nobel laureate was selling up arsenic helium had not been capable to usage the spot successful caller years.

"Up until astir pre-Covid times, Bob and his member would usually spell determination for a fewer weeks a year," Mr Stewart-Moore said.

"They bought it due to the fact that it's stunningly beauteous and, astir importantly, very, precise private."

The Edwardian mansion acceptable successful 25 acres, was built betwixt 1911 and 1914 arsenic a vacation location for Archibald Merrilees, a lad of the Scottish merchant who co-founded Russia's archetypal section store successful the mid-19th century.

The location was sold successful 1922 erstwhile the family's fortunes declined successful the Russian revolution.

It past saw periods of usage arsenic a hunting lodge, World War Two convalescent infirmary and a finishing schoolhouse owned by a New Zealand-born spy who survived imprisonment successful Colditz.

It was sold to the instrumentalist via his brother, who was acting arsenic his agent, successful 2006.

Prior to that it was a luxury B&B and wedding venue, and adjacent featured successful the TV play Monarch of the Glen.

Despite its celebrated owner, Aultmore House has remained disposable for holidays and events, and has 3 cottages which are rented retired for astir £900 per week.

It is tucked distant astatine the extremity of a tree-lined driveway 13 miles from Aviemore, amongst the forests to the north-east of Nethy Bridge with uninterrupted views of the Cairngorm mountains.

The Scottish countryside and civilization featured successful Dylan's enactment and helium has agelong acknowledged his indebtedness to Scottish people music.

"My heart's successful the Highlands wherever I roam / That's wherever I'll beryllium erstwhile I get called home," helium sang connected the opus Highlands from his Grammy award-winning 1997 medium Time Out of Mind.

In 2004, Dylan was awarded an honorary doctorate successful euphony from the University of St Andrews.

He chose Robert Burns' 'A Red, Red Rose', written successful 1794, arsenic 1 of his all-time favourites and has said Scottish folklorist Hamish Henderson's opus The 51st (Highland) Division's Farewell to Sicily influenced his opus the Times They Are A Changin'.