Holiday Cottage Details

Garden Cottage, a quaint and cosy Highland cottage situated on Aldourie Castle Estate, Loch Ness, and offers you the best of many worlds. Not only will you enjoy “The Freedom of Aldourie”, unfettered access to a stunningly beautiful estate providing many enjoyable things to see and do, but the cottage is also less than 5 miles from Inverness, the capital of the Highlands and hub of the Highland road network, making it the ideal base from which to explore the wider area. The Scottish Open Golf Championship is coming to Castle Stuart this July making Garden Cottage a perfect accommodation choice only being 14 miles away.

No matter what your taste, the age of your party, the time of year or the weather, you will find that there is always plenty to do at Aldourie.Garden Cottage is situated in its own small garden comprising lawn, shrubs and flower beds. Immediately next door are the Estate’s former kitchen garden, orchard and glasshouses, all currently undergoing restoration, and a path leads on down into the arboretum and on to the loch shore. The setting is perfect!

The cottage is on two floors. Downstairs, the sitting room antique furniture, pictures and ornaments and a wood-burning stove. The large kitchen/dining room is bright and airy and has fitted cupboards and a wood burning stove. There is also a double bedroom (the bed can be twinned if desired) with an en suite shower. Finally, there is a bathroom with claw foot bath. Upstairs, there is are two double bedrooms with antique furniture. In addition to the sitting room and kitchen/dining room fires, the cottage is heated by traditional radiators throughout.

Two further cottages are available to let on the estate Ivy Cottage and Gate Lodge, and, for that special occasion Aldourie Castle can also be rented for house parties of all shapes and sizes.

Accommodation

Ground Floor
Sitting room with wood burning stove, kitchen/dining room with wood burning stove, double bedroom with en suite shower (bed can be twinned).

First Floor
Two double bedroom plus family bathroom with claw-foot bath.

Activities

The 500 acre Aldourie Estate contains numerous walking opportunities, whether it be along Loch Ness (we have almost 11/2 miles of shoreline), through the parkland to the 150 year old Arboretum with its rhododendrons and azaleas and fascinating family burial ground, or through Torr Wood to the Pont and back via the Deer Ponds and stone circle. You can also cycle where you like on the estate or on Drumashie Moor to the south, which is crisscrossed by quiet roads, tracks and trails. Alternatively, you might like to fish for salmon or trout on Loch Ness or enjoy a picnic or barbecue on the loch’s shore, all the while keeping an eye open for ospreys, red squirrels, roe deer and, at dawn or dusk, badgers and pine martens.

In the wider Loch Ness area you will find that there is more than enough to entertain you: Urquhart Castle, the Official Loch Ness Monster Exhibition, Jacobite Cruises, Culloden Battlefield, Moray Firth dolphin watching boat trips, distilleries, craft shops, hill walks, beaches, golf courses....the list is endless.    

Included

Linen, towels and tea towels provided. Gas central heating throughout and all fuel for fires included.

TV/DVD with Freeview, ceramic electric hob and oven, microwave, fridge and clothes washing machine/dryer.

Extra refundable cost: Good Housekeeping Deposit £250 (payable to owner)