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Boat House For Sale
Lake Windermere
£2,250,000 ~ Or A Different One At £300,000?
In essence, this article is about one boat house for sale in the Lake District. But what caught our eye were the social media comments on the estate agent’s site about the price of £2,250,000 being far higher than many readers on social media would expect!
^^ Boat House For Sale, Lake Windermere: £2,250,000 ^^
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So in our own Unique Property Bulletin approach to helping make our readers’ ideal homes affordable, we have added two alternates. Aiming to provide affordable alternatives for you to consider…
(i). Lake Windermere boat house, £2,250,000.
(ii). Turnkey ready boat house: £300,000. Saving £1,950,000.
(iii). Boat house loch: £95,000. Saving £2,155,000.
For today, 1st October 2025, our first candidate boat house is the one at £2,250,000. Whether or not it is in your financial comfort zone, if you are into boat houses, then this Lake Windermere beauty is well worth studying…
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The Boat House, Pullwoods,
Ambleside, The Lake District, LA22 0HZ
Going by comments on social media, the £2,250,000 guide price seems hefty, even by Lake District standards.
Without doubt, this is a picture postcard building with an interior that has been renovated to a very high standard.
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^^ Boat House For Sale, Lake Windermere: £2,250,000 ^^
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Across at our Unique Property Mischief Club, the mantra would be…
“You can either afford this easily, or if not, then just go and build one yourself for £95,000”
There are quite a few folk who can afford the £2,250,000 and fair play to them.
However, one of our jobs at Unique Property Bulletin is to make sure all of our readers, whatever the size of bank balance, can at some point, get a crack at buying or building their dream property ~ and at an affordable price. Hence we do feature buildings and islands, where it has cost us pennies to live to prove affordable unique homes are possible.
For example, our house near a boat!
This Was Our Unique Property Home
In The 1980s & 1990s
At £5 A Year Rent
Yes, you did read that correctly: “five pounds a year in rent.”
^^ We Will Feature This £5 (Five Pounds) A Year ^^
^^ Island Adventure Soon ^^
^^ Photo Courtesy of Travel Scotland & Paul White ^^
^^ Alamy Copyright Fee Paid: Here ^^
To be clear, the island in the picture above is NOT for sale. It is included to give an idea of what else is available and at the other end of the price spectrum. Indeed, the £5 a year rent was good, but the magical financial result was…
The savings account grew by £52,335 during the 9 years on Davaar Island. How? By NOT needing to pay a mortgage!.That is pretty much “Rule 1” here… get rid of your mortgage as soon as practicably possible. The £52,335 saved up is proof this rule can be good for you.
If you haven’t sorted out your purchase funds, then disappointment and misery can follow. No funds equals no unique home purchase. Please spare yourself the grief of missing out on the place you would like to call home.
In 2008 our editor did offer on this Portland Boat House. But it is important not to get carried away with emotion and over-bid. The £495,000 was still an eye watering amount, especially as 17 years ago half a million pounds was a serious amount of cash. A lot to consider paying when our buyer had rented an island house near boats at £5 a year for 9 years ~ and had a padlock on his wallet most days!
^^ Duke of Portland Boat House, Ullswater, Lake District ^^
Current Rentals: Click Here.
Our Editor's Bid In 2008: Click Here.
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It may seem a glib thing to state, but after 40 years writing Unique Property Bulletin, we would respectfully suggest that there is limited logic in the commentariat on social media getting bent out of shape at a property price.
Yes a significant number of folk are actively working to ensure housing is affordable for their children, grandchildren and the next generation (more on affordable houses in future posts). But for this diminutive boat house, either a millionaire will buy it at £2,250,000, or have aag good old haggle at the price!
From our perspective is a simple question:-
If you could afford a boat house at a price you are comfortable with, then would you go that way?
If yes, then take comfort from the design initiatives and layout, plus quality of this Pullford Boat House example.
Why? Even if you cannot afford, or are uncomfortable with coughing up £2,250,000, you can still see inspiration in this building for the occasion if/when you decide to buy your own boat house at a more digestible level of between £100,000 to £300,000 as we shall narrate in the second half of this article.
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We have a very good example with a similar sort of coastal property to this £2,250,000 boat house gem. Our alternate, as regular readers will know cost us just £5- (five pounds) rent a year.
What is too expensive and what is too inexpensive?
Before a brief mention of the five-pound property and dissonance at this two and a quarter million pound eyewaterer, perhaps have a look at the video of Pullwoods Boat House in Ambleside…
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..A lot has been packed into what is a very small footprint at the shoreline of the Lake Windermere…
Here at UPB-HQ we have a serious soft spot for boat houses. The crew have bid on several.
You can see the difficulty in this listing.
The price is likely right if the holiday-letting were to be your preferred option, and yes, quite a lot of our readers are into that business.
A lot of the time, letting out a spare part of your building or land can mean the difference between being skint or having a reasonable life where the word “holiday” does get mentioned occasionally! Especially if you work for yourself all hours of the day and an annual holiday is a long, distant memory.
Kind of ironic in a way. A spare building on your land gives you the grace to holiday away from home.
Photos On This Page With Appreciation To:
Fine & Country Homes.
Agent Contact: 01539 889962.
The inside is a high specification finish, whilst the exterior, from the 1890s, is respected and preserved…

Photos On This Page With Appreciation To:
Fine & Country Homes.
Agent Contact: 01539 889962.
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The Social Media Comments Still
Need Addressed!
Comments on social media tend to be robust and plain speaking at times. Here are the highest ranking comments about the Lake Windermere Boathouse for sale at £2,250,000…
^^ These Are Posts on Rightmove, Not Our Social Media ^^
Here at Unique Property Bulletin, the spectrum of unusual properties, and often moreson the prices… from £5,000 to £5,000,000 will trigger the “daft price” type of rcomment and rection.
=> We think the price is on the high side, but what will hppen is someone will offer what tey think the Boat House is worth.
If buyer and seller agree,, then the deal is done!
But there is another way!
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ut across at the Mischief Club, we have approached the boat house desires with a lateral thought solution ~ by bidding on actual reservoirs ~ £95,000 will get you a 27 acre beauty: Click Here.
Returning to the smaller stretch of water at Lake Windermere at 22 times the price of the reservoir up north at £95,000, the quality of renovation in Pullwood’s Boat House is sublime…
Click Here
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As well as new unique property featured every day, we will be experimenting with Youtube.
This is one of the first efforts.
Just a wee chat with Russ McLean.
Before clicking onto the video, Russ suggests you may want to put subtitles up? He wasn’t keen on mentioning this problem, but after he got hit on the head with a 5,000 ton ship, a stroke reulted. In his day, that would be kept discreet and private.
However, the consultant neurologist says it can help other stroke survivors know that there is life to b lived after a crack on the head!
Apologies for any slur… no alcohol was consumed!
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Part 1: Daily Unique Property For You…
*^^ Our Daily Unique Property For You To Think About ^^
.have had an*ere Unique Property Bulletin started. It cost our editor, Russ McLean £5 a year…
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^^ The Old Lookout, Davaar Island, Kintyre, Argyll ^^
^^ Copyright Holder: Paul White. Thank you. Alamy Fee Paid: Click Here ^^
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^^ Friends Still Visit The Old Lookout Coastguard Station On Davaar Island ^^
It is owned by Mr & Mrs Turner and can be booked…
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Although there have been several, very welcome renovations since our very first endeavour to make the rooms and building habitable in the 1980. This was part of the £5 deal with Mr Turner Senior when first we leased the building in 1984/1985.
Low rent at £5 a year, in exchange for modest renovation work.
The Old Lookout: Lounge & Bedroom
Before Renovation Work
^^ Davaar Island: Old Lookout After Renovations ^^
^^ Davaar Island & The Dhorlin Causeway ^^
^^Photo Courtesy of Simon Butterworth. Alamy Fee Paid: Here ^^
^^ Davaar Island: Old Lookout After Renovations ^^
^^ & With The Island of Arran Just Across The Water ^^
=> Turbocharge your savings to the point were you have ample funds for a handsome deposit to place on your own house purchase/mortgage arrangements are included in the index page..=> In the several years our editor lived here (at £5 a year), he put themoney that would have “normally” earmarked for Normal” rent into savings..
=> £39,741
=> in savings from living a simple, off-grid life on an island at £5 a year.
^^ Photo Courtesy of Allan Wright. Alamy Fee Paid: Click Here ^^
“All we need now is a quarter of a million pounds!”
^^ There Is A Useful Lesson At This Point ^^
^^ That Being Onsite Or Nearby Helps Find Wonderful Unique Property Bargains ^^
=> So one day, whilst back on the mainland (from Davaar Island) and driving up to the Claonaig-Lochranza ferry to go back to the island of Arran and visit family, the old Landrover seemed to instinctively pull into the layby and behind an old stable was found this tasty morsel…
^^ Very Old Baraskomel House + Separate Steading (Barn) ^^ ^^ An Offer Over £19,000 Was Sought ^^ ^^ To Buy or Not To Buy?
^^ Very Old Baraskomel House + Separate Steading (Barn) ^^
^^ The “Extra” Barn Can Be Seen Lower Left ^^
Russ Was Fond of Saying…
“You can see my hoose fae here!”
Turns out the folk who owned it were from Harrogate in Yorkshire, kindred spirits to Scots in many ways. Especially with padlocks on wallets, purses and sporrans. Apparently the “offers over” £19,000 meant £29,000 or £25,000 minimum.
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In the end, a cheque for £22,500 was agreed and the rest is history.
Conveyance inbound…
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& Title Deeds…
Click Here
So even when a casual digression about London property and ferries is on the page, it is worth keeping alert dear readers as this property may well be for sale again if you fancy?
Just keep an eye on our main social media page…
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& Follow/Subscribe To Avoid Missing Tasty Property Morsels
We will cover this old wreck and what you might like to do with it in a future edition.
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Being There!
Looking back, and the principle about being onsite still stands.
The old wreck above for £19,000 was actually lived in (the barn with the roof was dry-lined and made VERY comfortable as it helped a lot if there had been a part or a nice meal in town and the tide had just started to cover the causeway, so getting onto the island was a challenge. It was very helpful to have a bed + coffee making facilities to kip in on the mainland at Baraskomel until the tide had come fully in and gone out (this is an excellent remedy for island living).
The views from the Baraskomel home were just as good, looking towards the Old Lookout Station as they were from the opposite side of Campbeltown Loch…
^^ View From Baraskomel Home Looking Towards Davaar Island ^^
Unfortunately… actually that should be fortunately: a nice unique lighthouse station came up for sale in another part of the country, so a quick sale was arranged of Russ’ Baraskomel home. Having bought a very modest abode for £22,500 it was a very pleasant surprise to be offered £46,000 (proof for doubters: click here).
=> The Angels’ Share funds just took another big financial bump of an increase:-)
Click Here To View Ferry Petition SUPPORTING CalMac
| Petition PE188 | |
| Petition calling for the Scottish Parliament to enable Caledonian MacBrayne the state owned Scottish Ferry company to take over the Campbeltown to Ballycastle route which is critically important to the fragile economies of Argyll and Antrim.
Petitioner: Mr Russ McLean |
Click Here To View Covering Letter To Scottish Parliament SUPPORTING CalMac
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Someone must have been listening, as the ferry service still exists to this day (2025: here). Though could do with a boost since CalMac Ferries and their shipbuilders ran into difficulties (here).
This has caused one of our Unique Property Mischief Club projects… the Sannox Hotel purchase/renovation on the island of Arran some discomfort too.
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^^ Sannox Hotel Renovation ^^
^^ This Is One of Nine Unique Property Projects ^^
^^ Sannox Hotel Renovation ^^
^^ After The Pandemic + Ferry Problems ^^
^^ Plus The Managing Director's Stroke/TBI - Being Hit On The Head By The Ferry ^^
^^ This Renovation Is Relaunching In July/August 2025 ^^
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^^ Sannox Hotel Renovation ^^
^^ This Renovation Is Relaunching In July/August 2025 ^^
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^^ Sannox Hotel Renovation ^^
^^ This Renovation Is Relaunching In July/August 2025 ^^
=> So it is likely the Sannox Hotel will be leased to a suitable hotelier/restaurateur, or sold.
=> Though for sure, with Russ moving across to Sannox Hotel in the summer to oversea the final 10% to 15% of renovation works, we will be taking the restoration across the finish line to re-opening.
=> The question for our whole organisation is whether to move our north office (“1”) below from the east coast to the west cost?
^^ Plans Are Coming Right At Last ^^
^^ The Three Unique Property Bulletin Locations ^^
^^ Should Help Prove The Benefit of Our ^^
^^ Two-Summers-No-Winters Philosophy For UPB Members ^^
Righty oh, for this nascent DRAFT chapter of the new “Unique Property Manual“ we draw this first iteration to a close.
In the next few days, we will institute a dedicated segment at the top of this page to post the unique property “finds” we make and link them to the top for you… with a fresh property every couple of days.
The main text and video VLOGS of this page (at the lower segment) will now be nudged towards an online “Unique Property Manual” with all the techniques we use to find unusual property. That way, you should be able to achieve our aim for you and all of readers…
For our next chapter, we move onto the “bank heist.” That term came from one of the Calum’s List + Creditcare Money Advice Charity clients.
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Chapter 2 of The Now Free
Unique Property Manual
We Banned Mortgages
On All Of Our Buildings
Curious?
^^ Jackie & Russell Calum McLean ^^
A very good friend, Michael Moore taught Russ McLean how to work internet websites. But Mick said to Russ that he should not to use his real name on the internet.
Russ felt uncomfortable not using his real name. so instead deployed a midway solution…
Russ used his middle name “Calum” when on Mick’s websites.
In amongst all of the money advice charity part of what Russ and the crew were doing, this happened…
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^^ Michael Moore Registered This Website ^^
By the time Russ (Calum) found out, it was too late to change the name to anything else.
Below is an excerpt of the registered charity (that was helped into existence in the 1990s by Unique Property Bulletin’s core team of subscribers).
The Creditcare Debt Advice Association “charity” years were from 1996 to 2007.
However, due to demand, that continued after the trustees had asked the Charity Commissioner to deregister the charity (both trustees were police officers and sticklers for correct procedure), the demand grew like an avalanche
Alert readers will be aware that at this time, there followed a world banking crisis.
That put a new level of high demand on services that community members knew were available at the harbourmaster’s office (of all obscure places).
So the trustees continued the debt advice association in accordance with the Memorandum & Articles of the Association.
But just as a more simpler “not-for-profit” association.
This matters now, in 2025, because the Land Reform Act and Community Empowerment Act make it possible for a statutorily constituted community association to “repossess” bank buildings where “harm” has been, or is being done to the community.
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^^ A Friend of Russ, During His Time Working In London ^^ ^^ Took His Own Life ^^ ^^ The Best We Could Do Was Establish This Charity ^^
Perhaps it might be helpful to upload one of our TEST video VLOG to see if it might help to see some of the folk that volunteer with Unique Property Bulletin and engage with how, why, what, where we got here to a site about something very far removed to the first charity born and registered from these Unique Property pages.
One aspect is our BAN on mortgages as described here…
We Make No Apologies
For Repeating This Picture
The message at this byline will help you get the unique home
for which you are making a lot of effort to achieve.
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Add into the mix, a group of approximately 585 shareholders from our “Unique Property plc” days between the late 1990s/early 2,000s and we were certainly in a position to buy bank buildings as part of our…
“Unique Property Mischief” projects.
All of this ended up with a series of LEGAL bank heists to assist various charities and projects that have been born from Unique Property Bulletin.
In a very kind response on one of the “PTSD” days some of our team get, the Unique Property Bulletin Ltd., book keeper very thoughtfully put this together…
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^^ None Too Shabby For An Eccentric Blog ^^
^^ As Completed By 11 Volunteers + 1,000s of You Guys Reading This ^^
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped with this over the past 40 years.
As part of this Unique Property Bulletin website’s evolution, we are adding a new video log (VLOG) from Russ to see a YouTube format of articles might make them more digestible. Indeed, Russ has a question about a new, bespoke YouTube channel for Unique Property Bulletin, for which he raises a number of points that YouTube might make it easier to digest an thereby our readers will improve their chances of…
Well Worth Repeating These Words.
This current YouTube VLOG in the next segment from Russ McLean, proposes a real size double-decker bus be purchased for the purpose of touring around the UK and visiting owners of unique property. All of whom will have reached an agreement to interview (as opposed to being “doorstepped” by television crew).
=> Plus, of course, a video or each newly visited unusual property.
=> A particular emphasis is sought for those in the midst of renovation of their unique homes.
The resultant video footage, plus VLOG work at video + VLOG (and aerial drone) will be capable of broadcast quality edit/processing and transmission from the edit-suite within the space afforded by a double-decker bus and interview studio within the vehicle.
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PLEASE FORGIVE RUSS BEING GROGGY
IN THIS NEXT VIDEO
It was 4am in the morning and the he had just awoken from a PTSD riddled nightmare echoing back to service as a police officer and having to attend post mortems of youngsters, which, when conflated with the death of his younger brother Jason McLean from leukaemia – brothers were 2 years and 6 years respectively, and possibly accounts for the first five minutes of this video being a little subdued.
However, never underestimate the healing power of a strong cup of coffee at 4am and the curative remedy of talking away for 30 minutes whilst the cortisol and adrenaline in his bloodstream subside/dissipate.
This is NOT typical of how these
VLOGS are progressing.
It is still early days yet…
^^ Russ McLean, Director: Unique Property Bulletin Ltd ^^
^^ 4am Middle of The Night ^^
^^ Test Vlog ^^
Please be patient, we are still working to get these videos into a workable state so they provide some benefit for our readers.
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