A Victorian farmhouse at the very heart of the Lindsay estate — sensitively restored, hung with the family’s own art, and made for long weekends with the people you love.
Incharvie has had significant work done to it, and all of it in the spirit of keeping. The stonework and proportions of the Victorian farmhouse remain; inside, the rooms have been reworked for the way families and friends actually spend time together. A large kitchen opens into a generous dining and living space, and beyond it lies a smart sitting room — a place to gather rather than pass through. There are four bedrooms and three bathrooms, sleeping eight.
Throughout the house you will find paintings and pieces from the Lindsay family’s own collection, hung as they would be at home.
The farmhouse stands on an old horse steading, and the estate’s own horses wander around the building — often in view from the kitchen table. Beyond, the views run out over arable farmland, the working landscape of the Lindsay estate.
For a group of friends, Incharvie makes a natural base for a few competitive days of golf: the links of the East Neuk — Dumbarnie, Elie, Lundin, Kingsbarns, Crail and, within around half an hour, the Old Course at St Andrews — are all within reach, and the house has room to gather over supper afterwards.
For a family, it is a weekend built around long lunches, good food from the harbours of the East Neuk, and an early morning in the wood-fired sauna on the sand at Elie before breakfast.
Elie’s harbour and beach, the Fife Coastal Path and the fishing villages of the East Neuk are a short drive away, with St Andrews under half an hour.
On around 20 days each year, guests staying at Incharvie can add a morning’s roe stalking on the estate — £500 per stay, arranged with the estate’s stalker. It is an old rhythm of estate life, and part of how the land is looked after today.
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