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Speybank House

SOUP, CHUTNEY AND STRAWBERRY PRESERVE: Baxters’
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legacy will certainly be a delicious one. But the Scottish culinary
empire has more to gift the next generation than a iconic selection of
tins and jars. How about somewhere to live?
As abodes go, the mammoth Baxter family home in Fochabers
is far from humble. Speybank House, thought to have been built
by the Duke of Richmond in the 1800s, served for many years as a
hotel, until the late Gordon Baxter took over in 1964 and converted
the grand Georgian building into today’s sprawling, two-and-a-half-
The widest selection storey residence. The eight-bedroom house is proud of its history,
of homes of distinction on Royal Deeside from the original pitched slate roofs, open fireplaces, working
and across the North East servants’ bells and ornate cornicing, to the marks left by its more
recent life in the spotlight, from the Last Cast bar installed on the
ground level to the vast kitchen in the rear, where Ena Baxter dreamt
up her recipes and where the brand’s ad campaigns where filmed.
The Morayshire property, however, is not short of potential
for change. Sitting in almost five acres of land and surrounded
by extensive private gardens, Speybank could easily return to its
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outbuilding carefully converted into a separate two-bedroom home
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