Britain's greatest lottery winners have bought the mansion they purchased shortly after scooping their £161 million jackpot.
Euromillions winners Colin and Christine Weir bought Knock Home, in Ayrshire, after spending years renovating the property.
The couple purchased the house, which has a walled backyard and views over the Firth of Clyde, for £850,000 in August 2011 - only a month after their win.
Euromillions winners Colin and Christine Weir bought Knock Home (pictured), in Ayrshire, after spending years renovating the property
The couple purchased the house, which has a walled backyard and views over the Firth of Clyde, for £850,000 in August 2011 - only a month after their win
Knock Home was the primary massive buy of Colin and Christine Weir after their record-breaking lottery win
Nevertheless, now they've determined to sell-up and at last transfer in to Frognal Home in Troon, which they purchased for greater than £3million, in February 2014.
The palatial house is a far cry from the three-bedroom £200,000 home they'd in Largs, north Ayrshire, the place they have been dwelling once they received their fortune.
On the time the couple stated they meant to maintain their 'good wee home' as a fundamental dwelling. However it isn't identified in the event that they nonetheless personal the property, though it's thought they might have gifted it to a buddy.
Knock Home, which has 5 bedrooms and a three-bedroom gatehouse on the property for visitor lodging, was put up on the market by property brokers Savills earlier this yr for presents over £795,000.
It has been bought to an abroad belief in a £1.four million deal which additionally concerned the acquisition of different properties on the encompassing Knock Fort property.
Throughout their time on the property, Mr Weir, 69, a retired cameraman for STV and his spouse, 60, a former psychiatric nurse, transformed outdated potting sheds within the grounds right into a wine cellar and tasting room, a gathering room and an workplace.
The Weirs lived on this £200,000 property in Largs, Ayrshire once they received their fortune
The gross sales brochure for the property learn: 'Knock Home is a wonderfully offered nation home in a stupendous and personal rural setting.
'The entire property has been utterly refurbished and embellished utilizing aptitude and creativeness in addition to one of the best supplies and tradesmen round. Nothing has been left to probability together with digital entrance gates... and state-of-the-art safety methods.
'In the primary home the rooms are vivid and the place attainable take full benefit of the good views. It has a stupendous new kitchen, solar room and three new bogs.'
The property has now been bought to an abroad belief in a £1.four million deal which additionally concerned the acquisition of different properties on the encompassing Knock Fort property
The property additionally has a three-bedroom gatehouse on the property for visitor lodging
The property additionally has a steady with two paddocks and a leaping discipline.
The Weirs arrange a charitable belief to donate a few of their fortune to good causes following their win.
The Weir Charitable Belief has given away greater than £6 million to good causes, together with shopping for a clubhouse for Routenburn Golf Membership in Largs, upgrading a care dwelling and giving sponsorship to various gifted kids.
Colin and Christine Weir have spent £three million on the Frognal property and its contents
The couple purchased the grand Frognal property from chef and lodge entrepreneur Invoice Costley
Mr Weir, a soccer fan, helped to refurbish the grounds of Largs Thistle junior soccer membership and gave greater than £1 million to Partick Thistle so they might set up a youth academy and clear money owed.
Final month it was revealed the couple had donated £1 million to the Nationwide Theatre of Scotland to assist them a brand new headquarters in Glasgow.
The couple have additionally funded the marketing campaign for Scottish independence. Mr Weir helped to movie occasion political broadcasts for the SNP within the 1980s and stood for the occasion within the Ayr constituency, coming fourth, in 1987.
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