A Scottish castle is being offered for sale for more than 30,000 pounds sterling, equivalent to 37,000 dollars, but there is one condition that spoils the completion of the deal in a quick time, which is the assessment of its current owners that an additional 12 million pounds sterling is required for restoration, according to CNN. .

Castle located Brough Lodge On Fitlar, the fourth largest of the Shetland Islands, and one of the most remote parts of the UK, it can be reached by ferry from mainland Shetland which itself is an hour and a half flight from Edinburgh, or a three and a half hour flight from London.

The island is inhabited by 69 people, according to the websiteFetlar Community Association up from the lowest recorded population in 2009, when it was 48 people, The castle is located on a hillside, overlooking the grasslands of Vitlar, the cliffs extending to the sea, as well as the surrounding islands.

the castle

Brough Lodge was built in 1825 by local merchant Arthur Nicholson in a Gothic style, said to have been influenced by his European tours, and has not been occupied since the 1970s, although it was designed to be protected from the elements about 10 years ago by its current owners, after a campaign Brough Lodge Trust fundraiser.

In addition to the house, there is a courtyard, several gardens and an elliptical tower, once used as an observatory and built on the site of a brochure, the type of Iron Age roundhouse that is unique to Scotland..