Harriet's Lodestar Lodge
For four, with two bedrooms and room for the dog.
Harriet's Lodestar is tucked into the woods in a quiet corner of the Dunskey Estate, with a private path down to its own dock on the loch.
Inside it's sunny and bold, with a yellow velvet sofa, a Persian rug and a round table by the kitchen. There are two bedrooms, one with a shell-shaped headboard and a painted wall of flowers, and each has its own bathroom. Outside there's a patio and an outdoor bath under the trees, and on clear nights the stars are wonderful. It suits a couple or a small family, and there's a welcome hamper when you arrive.
A seemingly endless supply of magic and wonder exists across our slice of coastal Scotland.
The kitchen comes fully stocked and equipped, with a dine-in table, generous fresh and frozen storage, 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
Heritage Coachman LodgeSleeps 4- In the stable courtyard
- A wood-burning stove
Fawn's Velvet LodgeSleeps 4- In the walled garden
- Beds in the old stalls
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 stands in woodland beside the Upper Loch on Dunskey Estate, which covers 2,000 acres of coastal Galloway between Portpatrick and Killantringan Lighthouse on the Rhins peninsula.
Portpatrick village, its harbour and pubs are about three miles away, with the estate's glen path running past a waterfall to two private bays. Stranraer, eight miles east, has the supermarkets and railway station, the Cairnryan ferries to Northern Ireland are 20 minutes away, and Glasgow is roughly 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.