Updated: July 17 2021, 8.18am
Muirhead Steading sits in a U-shape around its own central courtyard. A two acre garden sprawls to the rear. Behind that, the River Tay flows serenely past.
Owner Alan McGregor explains: “We’re on a farm track in the middle of the countryside. Yet the M90 is two miles away, Perth is about five miles and Edinburgh is an hour from here.”
The former chief executive of St Andrews Links Trust and his wife Jennifer bought Muirhead Steading in 1992, when the couple moved to Scotland after living in Cambridgeshire.
Muirhead Steading was built just over 30 years ago, though it looks like it could be much older. “The chap who built it was a serial renovator and doer-upper,” Alan says. “It was built between around 1988-1990. At that time most new houses were timber frame but he built ours the traditional way, with double skin brickwork. He also put in high ceilings, which give a nice feeling of space.”