Selkie's Haven Lodge
For two, with one bedroom and room for the dog.
Selkie's Haven is a little white lodge for two, tucked into a cove on the Dunskey coast between two old ports, right on the Southern Upland Way.
Its two pointed roofs were built to watch the moon, and inside it's bright and full of colour, with a hanging egg chair, botanical prints and arched windows onto the sea. There's a full kitchen, underfloor heating and a Frame TV. Outside you'll find an outdoor bath and shower, a Big Green Egg, a fire pit and a hammock, with the tides and the wind for company. It suits solo travellers and couples.
A seemingly endless supply of magic and wonder exists across our slice of coastal Scotland.
The kitchen is full-sized and fully equipped, with 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
Fawn's Velvet LodgeSleeps 4- In the walled garden
- Beds in the old stalls
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 on the shore of Dunskey Estate northwest of Portpatrick, between the coves of Port Mora and Port Kale, where the 1854 telegraph cable to Ireland once came ashore.
The village and its harbour are reachable along the clifftop path or a short drive round, and the estate's 2,000 acres of glen, loch and woodland rise behind. Killantringan Lighthouse marks the coast a little further north. Stranraer is eight miles for supermarkets and trains, Cairnryan's ferries 20 minutes, 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.