Accommodation
Less dramatic than the next door Mill House, the Old Barn was remodelled in 2025 and beautifully combines the traditional and the contemporary, with the same popular and sociable open plan look and feel . There is a separate kids playroom / TV room with a double sofa-bed allowing ground floor sleeping, but the main reception space is a large and light living / dining area featuring four comfy sofas grouped around bespoke coffee tables, plus a huge TV, and then – conveniently next to the arch way into the kitchen - a dining table for 12. There is also a smaller dining table for four which can be added.
Old exposed stone walls meet clean white plaster and travertine tiles. Upstairs, five of the bedrooms have their own wash-hand basins, and two can be set as twin or king-size. Most have built in storage and lovely woodland and mountain views.
Living Accommodation
The kitchen / breakfast room features an original exposed stone wall, but is wonderfully light thanks to the large glass archway and door out to the private cobbled courtyard terrace. The kitchen cabinets are oak, and the granite work surface, stone Belfast sink and travertine marble floor, are complemented by Neff, Gaggia and Bosch kitchen appliances to underline the commitment to quality and to marrying genuine traditional materials to the most up-to-date facilities. There is an American-style fridge freezer, a separate wee drinks fridge, single oven, double oven, microwave, halogen hob, large toaster and coffee machine. There is seating for up to six around the expandable island unit in French polished oak.
The kitchen gives way through an open exposed stone arch into the large dining and sitting room with four sofas. There is a separate kids TV room, seating up to a dozen on beanbags and benches - which has a double sofabed for ground floor dining if required. This is located in the old dining room. The lovely French-oak dining room table runs along side the exposed stone wall, and seats 12 ; there is a separate wee games / dining table for another four. We market the house as for 12 adults plus four kids to reflect the main dining table capacity, but some parties have pushed the two tables together to create space for 16 or more!
On the accommodation plan below, the playroom on the ground floor has been removed, giving a much larger living / dining area with big TV. The old dining room, along the corridor to the stairs and next to the sauna, is now a kids playroom / TV room.
Bedroom Accommodation
The seven bedrooms in the Old Barn are larger than those in the Mill House next door, but still not enormous. We use the phrase “big enough to swing a kitten” without advocating any animal cruelty. And our bedrooms are actually all kept pet-free, so nobody is allowed to test that.
We prioritised putting large beds in over having large amounts of floor space, so we have super-comfy superking beds in three bedrooms, with pairs of zip-and-link style single divans which can be made up as twin or superking in two more bedrooms. Each of these five bedrooms has a private wash-hand basin, and built in storage for clothes and luggage featuring hanging space and shelving. Four have garden, woodland and hillside views, with one facing out into the courtyard and giving river and forest views.
In addition we have two other bedrooms upstairs. One is a bunk room with two adult sized bunks with courtyard / river aspect, the other a small double facing the woods and hills. Downstairs in the kids play room there is double sofabed.
There is a shower room and toilet downstairs, and the upstairs room share a further two bathrooms, each of which features a bath with shower above and full travertine tiling from floor to ceiling. So with three toilets, three showers, two baths, and nine sinks / wash hand-basins altogether, there is very rarely any queuing for bathrooms at peak times.
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