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The Highlands

WildLand

Restored farmhouses, cottages and bothies on three Highland estates where the land is being given back to nature: the Cairngorms, Loch Ness and the far north coast.

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Farmhouses, cottages, bothies and a hotel on WildLand's estates, from Glenfeshie to the Kyle of Tongue.

WildLand is Anne and Anders Holch Povlsen's project to bring their parts of the Highlands back to their natural state over two hundred years. Across their estates, native forest is returning to bare hillsides, and the old farmhouses, cottages and bothies on the land have been restored for guests. In the Cairngorms there's the farmhouse at Killiehuntly and the cottages of Glenfeshie. By Loch Ness, six cottages stand on the Aldourie Castle estate. On the far north coast there's a hotel in Tongue and cottages round the Kyle of Tongue and Loch Hope.

We wish to restore our parts of the Highlands to their former magnificent natural state.
Anne and Anders Holch Povlsen, WildLand
Killiehuntly and Glenfeshie, Cairngorms

WildLand's farmhouse hotel and four cottages at Killiehuntly and in Glenfeshie, for two to ten, on land being restored to wild forest.

Stone farmhouse surrounded by autumn trees and hills in the Scottish countrysideKilliehuntly Farmhouse5 rooms
  • Supper round one table
  • A sauna yurt and cold plunge
Check datesA stone barn with a red door and a steep slate roof stands among trees turning gold in autumn.The HayloftSleeps 2
  • In the old steadings
  • The room for dogs
Check datesA row of stone cottages with a slated roof and four chimneys sits behind a gravel courtyard, hills visible in the distance.Killiehuntly BothySleeps 4
  • In the farm courtyard
  • A walled herb garden
Check datesA stone and dark timber house sits beneath autumn trees, logs stacked in an open store and hills visible in the distance.Geordie’s CottageSleeps 5
  • A stone-walled sitting room
  • Paths from the door
Check datesKennels Cottage, CairngormsKennels CottageSleeps 6
  • In ancient Glenfeshie woodland
  • An open fire and a log stove
Check datesA whitewashed cottage sends a thread of smoke from its chimney, framed between pine trunks with a dog bounding through the grass.Coire Domhain CottageSleeps 10
  • On the River Feshie
  • An AGA and an open fire
Check datesThe estateKilliehuntly and GlenfeshieThe farmhouse, its cottages and the glen they share.See Killiehuntly and Glenfeshie
Aldourie, Inverness-shire

Six cottages on the Aldourie Castle estate at the north end of Loch Ness, for two to eight, and dogs are welcome in every one.

Smoke rises from the chimney of a pink-harled house with a slate roof, seen over a drystone wall amid trees and misty hills.Tigh na Coille CottageSleeps 8
  • Above Loch Ness
  • An AGA and an open fire
Check datesA white harled cottage with a slated roof and gabled porch sits behind a garden of wildflowers, a table and chairs on the patio.Garden CottageSleeps 6
  • In the old kitchen garden
  • A roll-top bath
Check datesA white harled house with multiple gables sits behind clipped box hedging and shrubs, framed by overhanging trees.Factors CottageSleeps 6
  • The factor's old home
  • Two wood-burning stoves
Check datesA pink harled house with turreted gables and stepped chimneys stands among pine trees behind a dry stone wall.Gatehouse CottageSleeps 4
  • A little castle of its own
  • A spiral staircase
Check datesA stone cottage with a slated roof and dormer windows sits behind a gravel drive, ivy covering one gable end.Ivy CottageSleeps 4
  • Built like a croft
  • A bath in the bedroom
Check datesA stone steading with green shutters and a slated roof sits beside a gravel drive, mature trees framing the entrance.South BothySleeps 2
  • At the end of the steadings
  • A stove upstairs
Check datesThe estateAldourieAll six cottages round the castle, and the loch below them.See Aldourie
Tongue and Loch Hope, Sutherland

WildLand's hotel in Tongue and three cottages round the Kyle of Tongue and Loch Hope, on Scotland's far north coast.

A stone house with crow-stepped gables and clustered chimneys rises above trees, hills visible in the misty distance.Lundies HouseHotel
  • An old manse in Tongue
  • Dinner by candlelight
Check datesKyle House, SutherlandKyle HouseSleeps 2
  • By GRAS architects
  • Below Ben Loyal
Check datesA stone cottage with two chimneys sits above a loch, a mountain rising behind and a dry stone wall enclosing the lawn.Keeper's CottageSleeps 6
  • On the shore of Loch Hope
  • Copper baths in every room
Check datesA stone cottage with a slated roof and skylights sits on a lawn, a bench, fire bowl and basket of logs set out on the patio in front.Ferryman's CottageSleeps 4
  • On the banks of Loch Hope
  • An AGA and an open fire
Check datesThe estateTongue and Loch HopeThe hotel in Tongue, the cottages on the moor and the loch, and where they are.See Tongue and Loch Hope
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