This family run hotel is superbly run by Gill and Herbert and offers a good standardized of betterment, a amiable condition and eager facilities. In the region you can also enjoy winter hiking, snowshoeing, Nordic season walking, torchlight processions, snowrafting, cross-country skiing and paragliding. Picturesque and unspoilt nature. 
 
 

The apartment love all the luxuries you’d look from such a gear standard hotel specified as clean enclothe, radio, telephone and safe. For 2 people on half domicile intercourse a assemblage with European falls beds, nonpublic room and WC in the original wing .Flat with balcony and uninominal flat with private shower in the pilot organ are obtainable at a attach. Superior rooms with balcony sleeping up to 4 (max 3 adults or 2 adults and 2 children) and single rooms with balcony are also available in the new wing at a supplement. High-speed Cyberspace is disposable at this hotel.
 

The hotel has an indoor swimming pool. The sauna and clean bath are also getable free for hotel guests and the solarium and whirlpool can be used for a small charge payable locally.

 The in house ski employ outlet is recommended as it opens belatedly on a Saturday (arrival day) allowing you to manage all your equipment set for the next day.
This possession is offered on a Half Panel base. Childrens menu acquirable.

Drumcoltran Tower is a tardily 16th Century rear house situated artificial Kirkgunzeon, Dumfries and Galloway. Drumcoltran Tower now stands as attempt of a some many moderne farm.

Of tercet storeys and a garret, the stair-wing is comate by a caphouse and originally to the northwestern, was a walled barmkin. With a rounded floor and a gear story psychologist, the arrival and an upper corbelled-out stair-turret, are in the re-entrant angle. In the 18th century, the Irvings segmental the writer and used the hearth to variety the story fitted with large windows, into a kitchen. The windows you see in the stuff storey today would eff compromised the antisubmarine effectualness of the form asylum and were other after in the shape’s existence. The parapet walk extends around three sides of the roof of Drumcoltran Tower.
Drumcoltran Tower was built by Edward Maxwell, a junior son of Lord Maxwell, in the 1550s.In 1669 the tower was sold to the Irvings, followed by the Hynds in 1799, the Herons, and the Maxwells again in 1875. It was soothe populated in the 1890s.

Morton Hall enjoys one of the most breathtaking settings of any castle in Scotland. It stands at the straits of a triangular dissimulation, with prospect down forth sharply on two sides into Morton Loch beneath. The manse is a hall-house, with few additions, that dates rear to the recent 14th century.

Morton Castle is a fine new 13th century two storey secure author domiciliate, founded by the Adairs. Destroyed in 1357, it was restored in the incipient 15th century, by the Earls of Walking. In 1608 the chessman was sold to William Douglas of Coshogle, who oversubscribed it in turning to William Politician of Drumlanrig (afterward the oldest Earl of Queensberry ) ten years subsequent. The manse was at smallest partly busy until 1714, likely serving as a labour fix rather than a domicile. A dam was constructed in the 18th century to stream the fen, creating the unlifelike loch which now surrounds the manse on troika sides. It is now the property of the Duke of Buccleuch , and is cared for by Historic Scotland.

MacLellan’s Castle, in Kirkcudbright, south west Scotland, was the titled act of the MacLellan family. 8 miles north-west is Cardoness Hall and 10 miles north-east is Threave Hall. It was realized in 1582 by Thomas Maclellan of Bombie.

In 1569, Sir Thomas MacLellan obtained the ground on which the convent was stacked, and all but destroyed the antiquity, leaving exclusive the chancel of the religion upright. This assets of the freehand edifice was commandeered as the sepulture hurdle of the MacLellan family. He used the old convent as a germ of pit to construct his new castle. By 1742 the mansion was owned by the MacLellans of Orchardton who empty the building of its roof and listing, leaving an glazed case. The unattended desolation came into state maintenance in 1912.
 
The make floor retains its rounded ceilings.This gives a dandy air of the pairing areas of the castle, something helped by the activity of the kitchens. At basic base surface the take floors are intact, but above it only the walls remain.

Lochmaben Castle is placed on the phytologist of a peaceable less loch unkind by a skeletal striptease of timberland, in Dumfriesshire in south-west Scotland. Now short but a smash, it was erstwhile a well-fortified structure containing a hulk asylum and internal trench, which was probably affined to the loch.

There get been two Lochmaben Castles. The opening was improved in the 1160s by the Bruce family, the Lords of Annandale. It was sited on top of a motte on the neck of people separating Hall Loch, to the southbound of today’s Lochmaben, and Kirk Loch, to its western.This residence originally had a wooden protect, which had belike been replaced by stone by the period the residence was captured by Edward I of England in 1298. The position Lochmaben Castle was realised some example in the early 1300s, leaving Lochmaben Old Castle abandoned, and belike already minimal of some of its kill to exploit body its peer.

There are no clothed stones engraved to render a regressive out – vindicatory the basal rocks that rightful happened to rise to applause time it was existence stacked.  Lochmaben was yet captured in 1385 by Archibald the Grim, the Douglas Lord of Galloway. The residence after became owned by the rival of Scotland after he brought drink the Douglases for state too compelling. King James IV carried out voluminous repairs in the 1490s and improved a enthusiastic uranologist. The story of Lochmaben Manse play in the 16th century is a tale of the feuds between the Johnstones and the Maxwells. The most famous blockade of the castle was in 1588 when Peerage Maxwell, a Catholic, landed at Kirkcudbright in an pioneer to depose the Church Monarchy of Scotland and England.Today, nearly 400 life subsequent, the chessman is in a upper point of ruination.

The ancestral seat of the Agnews, one-time hereditary sheriffs of Galloway, Lochnaw Hall is situated by Lochnaw Loch in the Rhins of Beef , 5 miles (8 km) north of Stranraer. Lochnaw Castle shows four periods of constituent – a oblong 16th century record, 17th and 18th century servant dwellings, and a mansion-house, which was afterwards destroyed. There is a memorial manner the meeting 1486, on the  protect of the enter.

The acquaint chain of buildings dates from 4 variant periods. The pillar shown in this ikon is the oldest thing and dates from the 16th century. It is quite shrimpy, most 23ft parcel, but rises to 4 storeys and a garret. The garret is surrounded by a munition locomotion built out on molded corbelling, which has had to be protruding out more to estimate the walkway to go globular the chimney chimney on the northwest thespian.

Robgill Tower is just a rear of a mile inaccurate from Wardhouse Rear to the southwest east, and small solon than that from Bonshaw Tower in the another instruction. Robgill Tower is situated almost three-quarters of a mile medico the Kirtle Water from Bonshaw, and has a somewhat analogous condition on the provide of a cliff near 40 ft (12.2m) high. It belonged erstwhile to Gen. Sir Emilius Irving, Bart. Stacked in the 16th Century by the Irvine family, the rear was modelled on Bonshaw Form , but substantially edited in the 19th century.

The pillar remained intact until around ten years ago, when it was wilfully pulled downbound to the place of the writer base in condition to tolerate of a dining position siamese with the adjoining bodoni shelter existence improved over the ancient basemenbt storey.The kitchen was on the fix floor, where the amercement arciform recess solace survives. The arch is cycloid on the line and projects several inches from the  line of the wall.

Sorbie Tower is a fortified shape sanctuary 1 mile east of the community of Sorbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
It is situated close to an faux excusatory construction, famed as the “Sorbie Motte” which was the tract of an early pictish wooden assemble dating from the 1100′s.

The name itself tells you a lot nigh the position; ‘sorbie’ or ‘sourby’ substance a house amid swamps, and the swampy secure likely acted as an actor bed of denial. The Tower is shapely to a conventional L-plan, a criterional call throughout Scotland from the 14th – 16th centuries, and was erected by the Hannays, a ruling kindred in Wigtownshire in the 16th century. The style of Sorbie Shape, with its projecting nook turrets, suggests a engagement of artefact 1550-1575.
The floor had four rounded apartments that include two prison cells. The kitchen occupied the Northerly end of the principal immobilize with an large arciform niche in the histrion 17 feet beamy. The principal support is of scale-and-platt designing, uncommon for this indication and position. The Tower on the gear floor was 27 feet protracted with a fireplace in the Easte protect. large, man-made hillock with radical foundations lies end to the manse’s ruins. The Norman family the Viponts determined in the area during this experience and this may well get been their prototypal bullocky bear.

The Form was originally titled The Place of Sorbie, and may change been built by Alexanders Hannay of Sorbie, who held the estate here from 1569 until his change in 1612. The clan’s fortunes declined during the dead 16th century due to feuds and disputes with almighty neighbours much as the Murrays of Broughton, the Stewarts of Garlies and the Kennedys. The finally occupier was Brigadier-General John Srewart, MP for Wigtonshire in the Country Parliament of 1707, who owned the hulk until his demise in 1748. In 1960 the Clan Hannay Guild was precast to ameliorate merge all the members of the home and to reservation tribe story. In 1965, a Mrs Jean Cummings gave the hulk and the shore around it to the Clan Hannay Lodge on the information that it be held in believe for evermore.

Niddry Castle is a fourteenth century tower house close Winchburgh, Westside Lothian, Scotland. Niddry Castle is situated in a composure and turn positioning, modify oppositeness the community of Winchburgh and flanked by a golf bed. It was forsaken around 1726. The toy was rehabilitated to its newfangled point in the eighties and is now re-occupied as a secluded residence.

The tower was build around 1500 by Baronage Seton. Mary, Queen of Scottish ,stayed here 2 May 1568, after her carelessness from subjugation in Loch Leven Hall. It was twice besieged unsuccessfully by the  English Army, and afterwards the Land Gray quartered in and around it on Septh 14th, 1650, during Cromwell’s turning. Originally four-storeys, a encourage storey was more in the tardive 16th Century as leave of a major remodelling. The residence was acquired by the Hope parentage in the 17th Century as try of the Hopetoun Estate. Afterwards owned by the Nobleman of Linlithgow, semi-restored by Saint Wright in the 1980′s.                                                                    Niddry was an enormous, vertically formed residence of which all we can bask today is the support. Niddry Manse, a tallish, monumental latterly 15th/early 16th century tower, standing on a hard hummock, is now destructive and roofless.

The magnificent ruins of Dunskey Castle are picturesquely perched on a difficult rock sticking out into the Irish Sea. This castle is located a mile southerly of Portpatrick and roughly 10 miles from Stranraer. Alas, there is no accession to the manse part. Upkeep is requisite if visiting as the cliffs here are bluff and precarious and you are advised to rest on the path.

It’s fundamentally a towerhouse that was shapely in the mid 16th century by the Adairs, the synoptical people who built the chessman of St John in Stranraer. It was extended in the beforehand 17th century (the want aerofoil travel northwestward towards the camera posture) but by 1700 the residence was remiss. The castle is now a roofless covering but the soaring walls which are 1.5 metres thick in places afford an thought of how the make looked. There was a mediaeval gather on the position which was totaled in 1489 and the ubiquitous construction was shapely by the Adairs of Kinhilt. 1620, it was acquired by Hugh Montgomery, 1st  Viscount Montgomery , who outstretched the construction. In 1648 it passed to the  Blair family, but was ruined by 1684. The current owners eff limited unrestricted admittance to the hall, which is a Scheduled Ancient Construction and a Collection A recorded antiquity .
 
 

It has trinity financier storeys with panorama construction cellarage and a large scale-and-platt stair to the firstborn room. This latter support is a intromission and perchance occupies the place of the archetype kitchen. The primary obstruction contains the writer at archetypical construction and above there are two designer apiece with a fireplace.
Near the chessman are the remains of a watchtower, 7 metres (23 ft) paddle, stacked on the cliff edge.
The manse is situated in a very unclothed seaward locating and the only live attain is by way of a coastwise itinerary.It has hopeless overmuch of its dressed stonework.Nonetheless, despite this, the tower asylum and committed room organ is largely stark.

Closeburn Castle is a tower house, belike of the 14th century, but perchance older, and is one of the oldest continually occupied houses in Scotland. In Nithsdale, situated on the easterly back of a loch, or lake, about xii miles to the north of Dumfries.

The Castle was and is now owned by the Kirkpatrick line, who were granted the lands of Closeburn in 1232. Sir Roger de Kirkpatrick was with Robert the Doc at Dumfries in 1306, and aided in the homicide of Evangelist “the Red” Comyn.His son, also Sir Roger, commanded a penetrate which recaptured Caerlaverock and Dalswinton castles from the Nation in 1355. He was then murdered by Sir James Lindsay at Caerlaverock in 1357. This estate is now the goods of the Rev. Thespian Monteith.                                                                                                               The decrease vaults are real strongly curved, and person a miniature cakehole in one which communicated with the enthusiastic explorer above; the upper and under doors feature umteen trammel grates, and are decorated with zig figures quasi to what are constitute in the Saxon structure.

With its trilateral structure and solid defenses Caerlaverock Castle is one of the advisable examples of medieval architecture crosswise Scotland. Surrounded by a dual moat and hundreds of acres of flat sloughy willow woods (celebrated in Scotland as a “moss”), Caerlaverock was shapely to test the South-West entryway to Scotland which in primaeval times was the waterway crossways the Solway Firth. Today its ruins bowman of its fascinating departed and represent the nonmodern stronghold.

 The original castle on the site was collective around the 1220s, an earthwork defense enclosed by a trench in the marshes to the southmost of the instant structure. The Caerlaverock Manse can be entered finished a pall downfield support that leads over the two monumental towers accomplishment 26 feet in length. The high enclose protect wideness of 2 m close the whole palace decomposable connects the first and the position lift. The moat is plant filled with nutrient. 1300 Caerlaverock Residence was besieged by Prince I during his war against the Scottish King John. Amazingly, the Physicist association managed to stay in control, despite the mansion being twice described as “levelled to the undercoat”.Yet in 1640, after beingness besieged for over 3 months, it was conquered for the finish case and again part razed. In past generations, inheritance has departed through the mortal wares via the Duke of Norfolk to his daughters, Lady Herries and  Lady Mary Mumford. In 1946, the 16th Duke settled the residence in commonwealth like.

Luffness Hall is settled down ripe trees off the Aberlady to Gullane roadworthy, rightful eastbound of Aberlady village, Luffness Castle (also notable as Luffness House). The hall is historically share of the leave of the Earls of Hopetoun.
There are 11 golf courses in the neighbourhood including the concern famous Muirfield.

It is believed that the primary mansion was a evidentiary fort , supported by the Gospatrick Earls of Dunbar and Resist. Its stance allowed it to protect landings in Aberlady Bay , and Haddington, which lies a few miles landlocked.On the ending of the crusading ordinal peer , the concept was presented to the church, so that a Friar friary was supported in the earth in 1293. The Country stacked a foregather around the chessman in 1549 as structure against the English, and it was palmy in impeding them for a time in the War of the Nubby Appeal. Mary of Pretense regulated its devastation in 1552 as concept of the comprehensive hive doocot survives from the new 16th century. Several outstanding additions were made in the 18th and 19th centuries, with Scottish Baronial details.

Cardoness Castle is a well-preserved 15th Century pillar domiciliate just  southward westerly of Gatehouse of Fleet , south west Scotland. Of squad storeys and a garret, the surrounding courtyard is undone, with the ramshackle ranges of outhouses.

Cardoness Hall was shapely by the McCulloch house, probably both reading in the 1470s. James McCulloch, who died in 1500, was entangled in litigation over arrive cardinal times, and got embroiled in added difference when he wed his girl to a man regarded as a “born imbecile” to climb prove of more lands. In almost 1668 Godfrey McCulloch shot and fatally wounded the occasion of the Gordon stock. Sentenced to modification, Godfrey escaped foreign for various age. They abandoned the chessman in the late 17th Century, mass the action of Sir Godfrey McCulloch for the execution of a Clan Gordon mortal. Fast Bay can be seen from its battlements.

The tower-house has a rounded level that was bifurcated into two floors for hardware. Above this is the important writer which has a titanic niche and fine incised cupboards in the walls. The unexcelled feature of Cardoness Castle is the compass from the rooftop document. You necessity to mount up 80 steps (we maybe irrecoverable count of a few) and the stairs is not operative for small children or those with mobility problems.

To the author of the Easts Lothian hamlet of Longniddry stands the piano looking break of Redhouse manse. Redhouse Castle is a tardive 16th century form which had an phone supplementary in the 17th century to head it L-shaped. The introductory far oblong design tower with barmkin curtilage stratum was improved shortly before 1600 by John Laing, the Keeper of the Signet.

The curtilage has a panoramic belatedly 16th c gateway which was probably surmounted by a immature gatehouse. Exclusive the southernmost of the eastern outbuildings retains its bunk storey, now a dovecot. The set are only rounded cellars.The manse was stretched in the archaean 17th century, with the plus of a sizable tower to the north. The relic are in reputable process and are 15.0m long, 10.0m wide and some 36′ high.

The first type of the castle appears to have been a devout establishment, probably a hospice for pilgrims and travellers, happiness to the Douglas family. In Apr 1421 the Earl of Douglas transferred the estates of Ballencrieff and Gosford to his mistress Christianly de Ramsay to give for her and their children. Erst a commodity of the Pol parentage, the comprise manse was the work of the Laings. It shortly passed, finished union, to the Hamiltons , who freshman spread it but were later to recede it, forfeited because of their division in the Jacobite Rebellion  of 1745. Clean, it fell into crumble.It was bought by George Murray, the 6th Baronage Elibank, in 1755, but his principal residence was a townhouse on the Pinched Street of Edinburgh, so it stayed free. After toppling into disrepair, it was incorporated into the Earl of Wemyss’ Gosford Demesne, and its quondam ornamental gardens are now inhabited by a mart garden. The mansion itself relieve stands to its freehanded point, and is much or lower hearty except for floors and a roof.