The Old Byre, Knoydart
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Bathrooms
- 3
Description
A Rare Knoydart Escape: Your Own Home at the Edge of the Wild.
The Old Byre, Inverie rests on Knoydart, a secluded peninsula where rugged mountains embrace the sea. With no roads leading in, you arrive by boat or on foot, and once you arrive, time seems to pause.
Knoydart is not just a place to buy a house; it is a place where you embrace an entirely new way of life.
The Old Byre, with its origins stretching back around 130 years, has been transformed into a charming stone-built, single-storey home. Inside, you will find a spacious reception room with a log burner and exposed stone walls, a generous kitchen perfect for dining and breakfast, a walk-in boiler room, a utility room with appliances, a welcoming hallway, five double bedrooms, and three shower rooms featuring oversized shower cabinets.
The house has double glazing and oil fired central heating (under floor).
A loft room, accessed from outside, offers excellent storage space for all your needs.
Expansive private gardens stretch out at the front, lush with lawn, while a decked terrace at the rear invites you to relax with woodland as your backdrop.
An open garage shelters the trailer and rib, and also offers practical storage for logs, sports gear, and garden tools.
To the front, breathtaking views of the sea and mountains greet you each day.
It should be noted that the following items can form part of the sale:
1. A Land Rover Defender (an L registration so 1st August 1993 to 31st July 1994).
2. A private mooring opposite The Old Forge pub and proximate to the ferry pier.
3. A trailer and rib with engine.
4. All appliances and furniture within the house
5. All bedding, towels, crockery, cutlery etc.
This is a rare chance to secure a full-time residence, a holiday retreat, or even a potential business venture. Inverie, the main settlement, is home to around 120 residents. The Old Forge pub proudly holds a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most remote pub in mainland UK.
Knoydart, as noted earlier, is separated from the UK mainland's road network. Most visitors arrive by ferry from Mallaig or embark on a 14-mile trek across wild terrain. The dramatic, untamed landscape is a major draw, with four Munros and countless Corbetts waiting to be explored.
It is worth noting that for any party residing in London or travelling to the UK via London, the journey to Mallaig could be by rail with the Caledonia Sleeper departing from London Euston to Fort William then catching a daytime ScotRail train onward to Mallaig with this taking you across the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct.
EER band C
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Property details
- Tenure
- Freehold
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- Date Posted
- 2026-08-14
Utilities & Restrictions
Utilities
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- Water
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- Heating
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Rights & Restrictions
- Public Rights of Way
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- Private Rights of Way
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- Listed Property
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.
Property Features
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- Parking
- Parking Available
- Garden
- Garden
Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.
Connectivity
Broadband
Available at this postcode
Under 10 Mbps here
Suitable for
- Basic browsing & email
Mobile signal
Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.
Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.
Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.
Nearest Schools
Primary
- Inverie Primary School732 metres
- Pupils
- 9
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Mallaig Primary School5.5 miles
- Pupils
- 70
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Lady Lovat Primary School6.7 miles
- Pupils
- 11
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Bun-Sgoil Shleite7.4 miles
- Pupils
- 56
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Arisaig Primary School10 miles
- Pupils
- 29
- Type
- Non-denominational
Secondary
- Mallaig High School5.7 miles
- Pupils
- 101
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Plockton High School20 miles
- Pupils
- 213
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Ardnamurchan High School24 miles
- Pupils
- 126
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Lochaber High School27 miles
- Pupils
- 839
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Portree High School32 miles
- Pupils
- 494
- Type
- Non-denominational
Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.
Schools are just the start: planning activity, heritage and any flood history here are in the full report.
Amenities
Supermarket
GP surgery
Pharmacy
Walking trail
Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.
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Getting Around
Nearest station
Nearest bus stop
Typical drive times
Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.
Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.
Flood Risk
From SEPA flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.
Rivers and the sea
Surface water
The detail behind these bandings
The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.
- Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
- Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
- Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
- Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
- Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
- Ground risks (included in the full report)
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