Texans with a taste for the regal life can buy a Scottish castle — no passport required.
A lakeside estate modeled after Scotland’s Buchanan Castle hit the market for $4.75 million in Fort Worth. The 3-acre spread, dubbed Facade Nord, sits along Eagle Mountain Lake and pairs medieval flair with modern convenience, including elevator access across four stories, according to MySA.com and first reported in Mansion Global.Â
The home was listed Sept. 25 by Keller Williams Fort Worth broker Kristen Holle.
Built in 1998 by the late attorney Eugene Gittings de Bullet who died in January, the 6,600-square-foot main residence features four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms and cathedral-style living areas illuminated by chandeliers. Excluding other buildings on the property, the price comes out to about $724 per square foot.Â
That’s nowhere near the city’s highest asking price record — listed this year — for the 8,000-square-foot River Hills estate at 3736 Aviemore Drive for just under $17 million, or $2,125 per square foot.
Gittings de Bullet designed the home after learning Buchanan Castle was part of his ancestral lineage — and he set out to recreate its turrets, towers and stone grandeur on Texas soil, Holle said.
The property also includes a carriage house with a kitchen and bathroom, a lakeside guest house and a boathouse and dock extending into Eagle Mountain Lake.Â
The estate’s location 30 minutes from downtown Fort Worth offers seclusion and as well as city access.Â
That proximity has only grown more valuable as Fort Worth cements itself as one of Texas’ fastest-growing urban hubs. The city’s population jumped 2.3 percent year-over-year, recently surpassing Austin among the state’s four largest cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Cowtown edged out a growth rate of 7.7 percent from 2020 to 2024.Â
— Eric Weilbacher
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