New golfing hotel to open on Jura

Australian millionaire Greg Coffey bought the estate for £3.5 million in 2010 and has since spent an estimated £50m renovating Jura House and farm buildings into luxury accommodation. The millionaire has spent a further £20m on building an 18-hole golf course on the estate.

The estate is due to welcome its first paying guests in April with Jura House available for £20,000 a night, while a two-bedroom apartment in the old farm buildings, now known as The Quadrangle, will cost over £5,000 a night.

Jura House has been decorated in historic Scottish country house style by London-based interior designer Louise Jones, The Scotsman reports.

A total of 85 workers, almost half the island’s 190 population, were recruited to help make the project become a reality. The golf course has been forged out along the cliff tops of Ardfin Estate, with rough peat land dug out and replaced with imported soil and specialist grass brought in from Yorkshire for the greens.