Skiddaw House on the market for first time, along with 1,214 hectares of Lake District land – including three mountaintops
In popular fiction a century ago, it was described as “one of the loneliest dwelling-places in all the British Isles” and was the setting for a wild and melodramatic murder.
The estate agent selling it today more positively describes it as an “inspiring, one-of-a-kind property” but concedes it is still “the most remote house in England”.
