Half of One
For eight, with four bedrooms and room for the dog. Three nights at least.
A restored 19th-century crofter’s cottage perched above the sea on Skye’s northeast coast.
Half of One offers wide views, quiet skies, and direct access to the island’s raw landscape. With space for eight across the main house and studio, it’s well placed for both retreat and adventure.
Half of One is an original whitewashed 19th-century crofter's cottage at Culnacnoc, alone on the clifftop at the end of a single track on Skye's Trotternish coast. The main house sleeps six, with a sitting room with an open fire, a long dining table with a telescope at the window, and two bathrooms, one with a bath and one with a big walk-in shower. The studio sleeps two more, and has a double bed, a desk and a freestanding bath beside glass doors that look straight out to sea. From the cottage you can watch the sunrise light up the coast and look for seals, otters and sea eagles in the bay. A five-minute stroll takes you down to a quiet beach and on to Brothers Point.
Time away at Half of One is time out.
The main house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, an open fire and a kitchen with a Range Master cooker and a Nespresso machine, and the studio adds a fourth bedroom with its own freestanding bath.
- The house
- Four bedrooms, alone at the end of a single-track road.
- Wildlife
- Seals, otters, sea eagles, and now and then a dolphin or whale in the bay.
- Night
- Dark skies, with a chance of the Northern Lights.
October2026
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Half of One is at Culnacnoc, on the Trotternish coast in the north-east of Skye, high on the cliffs and looking east across the Minch to the little Isle of Rona.
Portree, for the big shops, restaurants and the Co-op, is 12 miles away, about 25 minutes by car, and there are shops in Staffin, a little way north, for logs and the basics.
Getting hereOn the Trotternish coast of Skye, near Brothers Point.
Brothers' PointThe easternmost point of Trotternish, a grassy headland over the sea, 3.5 kilometres there and back from Culnacnoc.Under half a mile 2 min by road
Lealt FallsA waterfall dropping to the Sound of Raasay off the A855, with a ruined diatomite works in the gorge below.2 miles 3 min by road
Columba 1400A youth leadership charity's centre at Staffin, whose café pays for its work, with the Trotternish ridge behind and the sea in front.4 miles 7 min by road
The Hungry GullA family-run brunch café in Staffin's community hall, with local art on the walls and the Quiraing up the road.4 miles 7 min by road
The Storr Sanctuary7 miles 10 min by road
Loch FadaThe southern of the two Storr Lochs, a shallow trout loch beside the Staffin road under the Old Man of Storr.9 miles 12 min by road
ÒR Shop SkyeTwo craft shops in the middle of Portree, selling jewellery, ceramics, knitwear and art by makers from Skye and across Scotland.13 miles 19 min by road
The Isle of Skye DistillersThe Wilson brothers' family distillery in Portree, making Misty Isle gin from foraged Skye botanicals since 2017.13 miles 20 min by road
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