Ardfin Estate buys Jura hotel from the McCallums

The Jura hotel, located on the Isle of Jura, has been sold to the Ardfin Estate for an undisclosed sum after inviting offers of over £1.2m.

Cath and Andy McCallum have owned and operated the hotel for the past 11 years. They, along with their family, will remain on the Inner Hebridean island to pursue new interests.

The hotel is located in the village of Craighouse on Jura, with open sea views over Small Isles Bay, and includes 17 bedrooms, two bars, a restaurant, lounge and alfresco terrace. It also has its own biomass system, solar panel energy and staff accommodation.

Willie MacDonald, general manager at Ardfin Estate, said: "Ardfin Estate are delighted to be the new owners of Jura hotel and intend to continue the operation in the same vein as the previous owners and hopefully, if possible, build on the success that Andy and Cath McCallum have had in their 11 years of owning the hotel."

Alistair Letham, hotel and leisure consultant at Graham + Sibbald, which oversaw the sale, said: "The availability of the Jura hotel for sale, almost unique in this idyllic island location, attracted interest from a wide range of potential buyers and hoteliers. The purchase by the local Ardfin Estate not only secures the future of the Jura hotel – an essential element of this island's community – but also offers excellent business growth opportunities when "marrying" the Jura hotel with hotel and leisure/sporting facilities at Ardfin."

Jura is one of the least densely populated islands in Scotland and is also home to extensive deer forests, the Jura whisky distillery and Barnhill, where George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel 1984.