Inside A Castle Home, Restored After 430 Years | WSJ Mansion

[@howardmckenna]

That castle couldn't have had better owners. Beautiful.

[@billhosko7723]

100% you are!

[@dima97]

Finally someone who keeps the beauty of these historic places and doesn't just paint the whole house white.

[@-OBELUS-]

...or gray.

[@dima97]

@@-OBELUS- seriously

[@geoffdundee]

@dima97 ......many historic places were originally painted pink or bright ochre yellow/orange.

[@dima97]

@@geoffdundee I'm talking about white or gray not orange or pink. Please learn to read

[@geoffdundee]

@@dima97 ......whites boring..............better with traditional colours like i mentioned previously.

[@infraredthomas]

I applaud the owners on their ingenuity, dedication and hard work that brought this building back from being lost. From the decor to exterior, they really considered what was appropriate for the house/castle and grounds - no garish upgrading/modern elements. And to think, most, if not all, of their work was done without followers on social media.

[@mickhughes6327]

It's evident that a lot of blood, sweat, tears and love have gone into the renovation of this stunning home. A true credit to the owners' commitment and skills.

[@twisted_void]

Honestly. 1.26 mil is a lot of money but for a place like this, it is a steal. In London, for same amount you would get a spacious apartment. Here you get a mini castle in amazing condition.

[@forward_ever_ever2595]

Not to mention a healthy environment

[@pedrosaulmx]

Whats an Yearly estimated cost for a place like this... including a cleaning service. LOL

[@CommanderStarblaster]

Or not so spacious apartment depending on the part of London you're talking about.

[@kaibrunnenG]

LOL. 1.26mil is a bargain for the castle, guess house and the full huge garden. The only reason it's that low price because it's so far away from amenities have fun doing grocery when you are so far away. Probably more ideal for a vacation rental than a live in.

[@craigthescott5074]

I would have guessed a lot more for this work of art.

[@6ixConfessions]

I hope it's heritage listed. It would be a crime if the next owners were to destroy the integrity of such a glorious & faithfully restored beautiful old home.

[@bluelagoon1980]

I looked it up, it has an A listing (only 8% of such properties in Scotland are grade A). And they won an award for the restoration work in 1973, so they did it to a very high standard.

[@6ixConfessions]

@@bluelagoon1980 Good to know, thank you. It is a beautiful home by any standard.

[@godfreyberry1599]

This family's commitment to preserving something quite special is of the highest order imaginable. Lives truly well lived.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

It's so refreshing to see a castle (or chateau) renovation that has eschewed modernisation in favour of period pieces of furniture, stoves etc, and art. I almost weep when I see some of them.

[@timothyj1966]

For sure... sometimes it's just Criminal! Was pleasantly surprised. This Family got it just right!

[@peterbellini6102]

Beauty and commitment; a rare thing indeed. But oh those stone stairs! Hats off to the Ellingtons...

[@motoflyte]

I love it when real people restore something, working hard to do so.

[@hansfranklin5070]

Thank you for sharing your magnificent home! Above and beyond in renovating it in it's original splendor!

[@channel.INSPIREDINSIGHT]

It's a very beautiful castle! It's nice to look at houses like this! *A real work of art*

[@carltwidle9046]

Stunning castle. All the hard work has payed off. I hope it will be looked after in time and remain the beautiful building it is.

[@mrs.anonymous6291]

This truly is one of the most beautiful, elegant, whimsical, enchanting, breathtaking re-models that I have ever seen!!!! Bravo to you and your family for not compromising the History nor the original woodwork, fireplaces, stair cases and moldings etc, etc ...

[@HeyMJ.]

An incredible, historic property that’s move-in ready.. Beautiful!

[@CallMeJAR1]

Man, those castles were built to last generations.

[@cw7422]

What a fantastic thing to do. I went to a lot of castles in Scotland during my 7.5 years there when I was a Navy brat and a sailor myself. Great video.

[@incyphe]

Bless these wonderful folks

[@mesovogue]

Magnificent. I am so glad there are people who can preserve these places.

[@XxXenosxX]

Great work by the owners bringing that back to life

[@Most_like_of_1st_start_builder]

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[@rethundralegna4138]

So beautiful. I hope the castle continues to be well-kept for the next humdreds of years and never let destructive modernization touch it.

[@PhD777]

Absolutely beautiful home! A gorgeous fortified manor/tower house! Ya'll should be very proud to have and to have restored such a piece of history! Wonderful!

[@user-tt5xj5ib1e]

It's such a warm and inviting home, you can see all the work and love they put into the place :) 😃😍😃

[@a.z.2707]

Sale agreed on 1.1m euro, what a bargain deal the new owner got. In Scotland 1m euro houses are not even close to what this castle offers

[@kindlydude]

Darn!! Has it been sold? ...I was counting on winning the lottery to buy it. 😜😉☺

[@tammywilliams2035]

Absolutely fantastic video. Loved it. Thank you

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hello Tammy, how’re you doing today?

[@zapfanzapfan]

What a fantastic little castle!

[@carmenslee6234]

What a wonderful building.

[@joshhoffman1975]

What a incredible legacy Ms Ellington and her hard work, wonderful eye and taste have left! The timber ceiling are wonderful, but I like the dining room the best! 🎉❤😃

[@TheBTG88]

That ‘timber’ ceiling is actually sandstone.

[@kindlydude]

@@TheBTG88 Perhaps he meant in the library ...but my favorite room (we only saw the kitchen, library, a smallish bedroom and the Great Hall) ...was the Great Hall with its vaulted sandstone ceiling. I wish they had said exactly how old the castle was ...or perhaps I missed it.

[@tonics7121]

Magnificent. What vision the two of you had. A gift, certainly.

[@kv7654]

Wow! What a great price !!!

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hello how are you doing?

[@8ballphil150]

the home is magnificent .

[@paulpowell4871]

Blessings to you and your family. what a great couple and life you had.

[@olgabolesny4673]

Love this castle, well done🌹🌹🌹

[@dan49781]

What a dream.

[@I-Know-Best]

this video literally made me book a ticket to Aberdeen in September just to see this place

[@Dogasaurus]

Pack for cold & rain. It can be glorious at that time of year & the days are still amazingly long - you could read a newspaper in the garden at 10pm at my grandmother's house in August - but, to relocate & paraphrase the famous Twain observation, the longest winter many will ever experience is a summer in Scotland, never mind autumn. Winter ?! Fuhgeddaboutit...... My brother & I used to spit on the inside top windowpane at night so we'd know how cold it had been by how far down the spittle got before freezing.Looking at all that exposed stone & the vaulted ceiling at Towie Barclay makes me shiver, whether from sense memory or fear of the heating bill, I can't say. No wonder whisky translates as water of life. Just a poetic description of antifreeze.( And yes, I know that whisky doesn't actually keep you warm. Spare me your dreich Sassenach science.)

[@I-Know-Best]

@@Dogasaurus Im from SoCal so Im ready for some cooling winds to get away from this dry heat

[@Dogasaurus]

@@I-Know-Best I'm quite sure you'll experience some "cooling" winds off The North Sea or The Cairngorms...lol.. Also quite sure you'll be enchanted in spite of the weather.

[@kindlydude]

@@Dogasaurus 😉😆🤣 ...when did (Mark?) Twain's quote end and yours begin? That was quite a description of Scotland's weather!

[@Dogasaurus]

@@kindlydude Once experienced, never forgotten...lol...Not familiar with Shania's work, but I believe it was Mark who wrote that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Witty, but not quite as evocative as the spit story, if I do say so myself.

[@annaelisavettavonnedozza9607]

They truly put blood, sweat, & tears into that place. They love & respected it ❤❤❤

[@Catcrazy333]

Now enjoy the fruits of your labor .. .Just Lovely ‼️

[@johnklinekurtz]

Hard to pick a favorite part of the great job, but I like the Ceiling Trusses in the Carriage Room a lot!!!

[@dyinteriors]

I adore this home! Just fabulous!

[@ginoasci2876]

We took a wire brush and a chisel and cleaned every stone. I LOVE THIS WOMAN !!!! Bless her heart !!!

[@sophiesacaben]

Magnificent!!! 👏

[@andrewsdrmike]

Beautiful

[@rickenbacker472]

Awesome house.

[@janoginski5557]

It is a Tower House, not a Castle. Apologies for being pedantic. The asking price, if that is a fixed price is an absolute bargain. And what a lovely location.

[@lisaburke6331]

what a beautiful, imaginative place to grow up🥰

[@dilshaddealwis6543]

What a wonderful restoration that can be carried on for generations. Absolutely wonderful labour of love. I pray the new owners will care for it the way you have and be the custodians of this magnificent home.

[@_PJW_]

Glorious. What a triumph!

[@TKOin2life]

The perfect castle. I love it.

[@fernandsimard4112]

This is beautiful... Bravo.... That castle couldn't have had better owners. Beautiful.Beautiful and beautiful.... Thanks....

[@steffan1830]

Beautiful. What a labor of love

[@EleyReiHer]

I love that they handle the treasure with special care! It is impossible to do every part of the preservation by the owner but voila - boy would it ever be lovelier than this! The setting of the garden compliments the whole look

[@Adrian_Conradie]

Wow! Beautiful 😍 👌🏻

[@mJ-sm4ss]

I would love to win mega millions or Powerball and move right outta the USA! This place would be perfect!

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Looking very nice...

[@cloisterene]

Thank you so much for preserving this estate with all the love you put into it, and for sharing its enchanting beauty with us.

[@deniseroe5891]

This is a fantasy of mine. It is beautiful! Would love to be able to take a old Manor home and restore it. Congratulations on a beautiful castle.

[@camfrancisco]

Spectacular

[@puddysue]

You have done a spectacular job! Thank you for restoring such a stupendous place!!!!!!

[@DanaDakota]

Magnificent ❤️👑

[@davidwayne9982]

It's GORGEOUS--- as long as it's warm in winter and cool in summer- it's PERFECT!!! I'd love to have one like that over here somewhere..

[@DonAl9114]

What a wonderful place to be. Let’s hope the right new owner moves in and preserves these beautiful buildings. 😊😊

[@trippydippy-j5n]

Good to see a couple who truly care about the home they have, a great lesson for those who make the stupendous mistake of trying to modernise a Castle. They are called "Castle's" for very good and obvious reasons.

[@agyozdowski1382]

wow beautiful

[@claiborneeastjr4129]

I must say your restorative skills are beyond awesome. This castle is absolutely awesome in all respects, and I really admire (and envy) your work, time, labor, skills, devotion, and patience in restoring this magnificent castle. What an architectural masterpiece. You should be so proud of your accomplishments.

[@JJ-er1ng]

Wish my HoA would allow me to renovate my place to be like this.

[@keithss67]

Wonderful

[@Erik-gg2vb]

$1.26 million, that's cheap. Won't even get you a starter home in the beach cites of southern ca.

[@cmvdoo]

Work of a lifetime, a lifetime of work. Big compliment with the achievement.

[@reejoyce6305]

Oh my goodness, this place is AMAZING ..thankyou for sharing

[@veronicaroach3667]

Oh wow - selling this will be such a wrench for this lady - I hope the next buyer will include her in their plans - let her visit if she wants to - be kind- she has done so much for this building & history in general, it's a wonderful life's work ! I wish i could buy it myself, it is a beautiful place ! I like it a lot becasuse it is such a reasonable size, so many ancient places like this are huge beyond belief & must be very uncomfotable to live in really & almost nobody can afford servants as in days of yore !

[@kindlydude]

Assuming she is staying in Scotland (if both daughters still live there she probably will) ...if I had the money I;d rent it out as a b& b and hire her to greet the guests and book them into their rooms and give her the choice of which room or cottage to live in. One would need a cook/chef, gardener/maintenance man, and cleaning lady for laundry, etc. to make a go of it.

[@victorortiz193]

Omg the arches in the hall, beautiful...

[@Kim.E347]

What a beautiful job you did restoring it and making it into a perfect home! ❤

[@cathyreardon8979]

Very sorry about the loss of your husband,father. 😔. Beautiful castle.❤ God Bless. Cathy, Ohio,U.S.A. 🇺🇲

[@Holidaygal]

Marc Ellington’s music career was accelerating when he left Oregon US to avoid the draft. He recorded a series of solo albums and collaborated with Fairport Convention and The Byrds.

[@kindlydude]

I miss the old fashioned hippie anti-war liberals ...who were actually anti-war. There's no organized opposition to the current neo-con/neo-lib fiasco (a handful worth of Vietnams ...several hundreds of thousands of needless dead) ...happening now. 🤨😒🙄🤕😢

[@Spock_Rogers]

​@@kindlydudeChris Hedges, Code Pink, Noam Chomsky and others are still fighting. The whole country has shifted to the pro-war right wing, but there are still people fighting. We can't give up. 🕊️

[@boomsuga]

$1.26 mill that’s a decent price for a castle. That’s an average home price in Toronto

[@KellyfromMemphis]

IKR!

[@carolweaver3269]

Spectacular Castle and have to say, you both have done a splendid job restoring it and it is sad your family could not continue on holding on to this lovely castle! Wish I had this money, as it is not really asking too much I do not feel, and if you wanted to stay on and enjoy all your days here, but with others taking over the work and the part of taking care of it all, You love this castle and have worked hard with your husband and positive you miss him and it is hard, but even if you lived in one of the smaller areas that visitors would use normally would maybe something that would be of interest and you would desire to know you wer home and able to spend many more years here and help the owners if they have questions? Some people would maybe write a book, as so many do. It takes so much money an time of course and people need to realize this when they buy it as they will want to be sure to keep it up properly and it is interesting what more they will think to do, as one would want to keep most all of it quite the same. But truly with a castle there is always more needing to be done. Ther is a thing now called " Work a ways', and people who are, in between jobs, or they would like to. exchange work for living with a room and bathroom and to eat, would work for you. But they would need very good vetting of course.

[@alliedavidson4175]

Oooooooooooo, chills up my spine. I want this place!

[@mgithaiga1]

I wish I quarantined in the Towie Barclay Castled during the COVID-19 pandemic

[@brintonsdad]

Amazing, what a wonderful family.

[@Prinlu739]

Stunning!!

[@warninghamburg]

What a wonderful house. So much history.

[@fionasaunders7646]

Very tastefully done and a enormous credit to you and your late husband, though I am sad that your leaving it. All the very best to you and your family.

[@alaahamza62]

absolutely stunning ,, it worth the 1.26 million ...

[@Novilicious]

Hope the new owners will take care of it as beautifully as the old owners have

[@geoffdundee]

beautiful and clearly well loved

[@sanyun1257]

Wowowowow😊

[@riaanpotgieter475]

😳 Super awesome!!! Truly awesome job that these homeowners have done to restore this Castle. ❤️🌹

[@yrokelyod3471]

Amazing restoration job. If I had the money, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

[@YoutubeCrittic]

What a beautiful place to grow-up..I'm so jealous. 🏰

[@spinnetti]

Dang... What a dream! If I thought I could keep it up myself, I'd love to buy something like that.

[@williamwaits]

Not a bad price

[@foreverteuk]

Nuuuuu don't sell :( So much memories

[@thelongdarkteatimeofthesou4497]

Tbh... they did such a good job with this. Hope the next owners respect the place just as much.

[@stratobee]

Nice mid-atlantic/scottish dialect from the daughter. Hadn't heard that hybrid before.

[@auro1986]

wsj stays here when visiting scottland

[@KellyfromMemphis]

For the lovely weather and the highest murder rate per capita in Europe…

[@aa-xg3ct]

@@KellyfromMemphis LOL...England and Wales 11.7 and Scotland 9.5 per million.

[@deepwaters2334]

Honestly that is a steal for a property so large with so much history.

[@wardmacleod3765]

WELL DONE

[@joe-vl3nd]

Beautiful 👍🇬🇧

[@connection7405]

Looks beautiful, especially the outdoors. I wonder how it smells inside? These usually have that old smell somehow