THE most remote house in England — with no road, mains electricity, phone signal or internet — is on sale for £1.5million.
Buyers of Skiddaw House in the Lake District will have to walk to it or drive more than three miles cross-country.
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Set 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”.
Solar panels provide power, water comes from a spring and it is heated by wood-burning stoves.
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.
“It is an exceptionally rare opportunity to purchase somewhere as remote and peaceful as this.
“This is the only time the house has ever been sold on the open market since the property was built.
“It has only ever been sold before as part of a much larger farm.”
But the buyer of the “plain” two-storey house, ten miles from Keswick, will have to wait until 2027 to move in as it is currently leased as a youth hostel.
Properties in the area go for £490,535 on average, according to Zoopla.
Brits are flocking to live in locations in the country as the pandemic has freed millions of people from office desks and allowed them to work from home.
Households with poor broadband speeds – which is often the case in rural locations – are set to get vouchers worth £1,500 each to help install faster internet.
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