Fawn's Velvet Lodge
For four, with two bedrooms and room for the dog.
Fawn's Velvet sits in a sunny corner of a walled garden built at the end of the Victorian era, on the Dunskey Estate by Portpatrick.
The sitting room has a velvet sofa, a painted wall of sea and sky and an open fireplace, and one bedroom has twin beds set into the stalls of the old stables. There are two bedrooms, each with its own smart bathroom. It's eco-friendly too, with good insulation and underfloor heating from renewable energy. It suits a family, with a flower-filled garden of its own and a welcome hamper waiting.
A seemingly endless supply of magic and wonder exists across our slice of coastal Scotland.
The kitchen is well stocked and fully equipped, with views into the garden and a starter pack of dish soap, sponges, kitchen roll and laundry detergent.
- On arrival
- A welcome hamper: bread, baked goods, eggs, coffee, tea, milk, butter, cheese, jam and marmalade.
- Meals
- Ready-to-eat meals to order from the castle kitchen.
- Dogs
- Up to two, with a £60 deep clean for the stay.
- Christmas
- Seven nights at the least over Christmas and New Year.
- On the estate
- Beaches, lochs, woods, a glen, a hedge maze and walled gardens, all yours to explore.
October2026
The Royal ApartmentSleeps 10- Inside Dunskey Castle
- An art deco spiral stair
Saltwater Chronicles LodgeSleeps 6- A deck over the sea
- Above the fairy glen
Fern Forest HouseSleeps 6- Between two lochs
- The head gardener's house
Artemisia LodgeSleeps 4- An enormous garden
- Nearest Portpatrick
Symphonica LodgeSleeps 4- All on one level
- By the hedge maze
Harriet's Lodestar LodgeSleeps 4- Its own dock on the loch
- A bath outdoors
Heritage Coachman LodgeSleeps 4- In the stable courtyard
- A wood-burning stove
Selkie's Haven LodgeSleeps 2- In a cove by the sea
- A bath and a hammock outside
Rose Blair LodgeSleeps 2- In the wildflowers
- A bath among the vines
Wren's NestSleeps 2- A sunny garden
- A bath under the camellia
The lodge sits beside the walled garden at the heart of Dunskey Estate, 2,000 acres of coastal Galloway on the Rhins peninsula, entered through the old stables courtyard.
The maze and the garden's Victorian glasshouse are on the doorstep, Portpatrick village and its harbour are a few minutes' drive, and the glen path runs past a waterfall to two private bays. Stranraer, eight miles east, covers supermarkets and the railway, with the Cairnryan ferries to Northern Ireland 20 minutes away and Glasgow around two hours by car.
Getting hereBy Portpatrick, on the Rhins of Galloway in Scotland's far south-west.
Scotland, in print.
Every photograph commissioned, every word written by somebody who went. Printed twice a year, made in Scotland.