Borradill House

A West Highland Hideaway on Loch Sunart

A beautiful retreat on a remote Scottish peninsula, this coastal home on a 25-acre private woodland can be rented independently for up to six guests or combined with a neighboring cottage for larger groups.

Contemplate vast views across Loch Sunart and dial back daily life’s stresses in favor of foraging, swimming, forest bathing, boating, or biking right out the door. Due to its uniquely remote location, the home offers fixed stays of four or seven nights. (Four-night stays are available on request.)

Timbered inside and out, the house offers a generous living area, breathtaking views over Loch Sunart to the Isles of Carna, Morvern and Mull, and a Scandi-meets-Scotland design theme throughout, created by its interior-designer owner’s Mookerjee Design Studio. A woodburning stove and fire pit add to the cozy styling, and the house sits deep in a lush, green woodland with a temperate rainforest adjacent, home to soaring oak trees said to be more than 400 years old.

Furnishings are refined, yet homey and comfortable, and there’s an outdoor deck framing the two bedrooms and TV room that can double up as sleep space for six. A spacious farm-style kitchen is fitted with a long dining table for easy entertaining, and the home offers multiple warm nooks for gaming, crafting, reading and resting.

See the neighboring cottage here.

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Set on a remote coastal peninsula, the house offers year-round adventure. The beautiful woodland is a mix of oak, birch, rowan, larch and spruce, crossed by streams and dotted with ponds and rugged viewpoints overlooking the sea loch. It is home to owls and otters, pine martens and eagles, and foragers will find chanterelles and berries galore. There’s a forest camp in the woods for kids (think rope swings, stick shelters, and magical mossy clearings), and a five-minute walk leads into an ancient Atlantic temperate rainforest with 500-year-old oaks, elemental lichen, and a burn crossed by a raging waterfall and pool for a chilly dip.

Within a 15-minute walk from the door (or a five-minute drive), there are more organized adventures to be had. Sea trekking on Loch Sunart, a special Marine Protected Zone, allows you to discover the rich life underwater and the remote rocky outcrops and isolated beaches. Loch Sunart is one of Scotland’s deepest lochs, part of the Argyll Hope Spot, and there's plenty to do within it, including diving for scallops to cook on the fire back home, or watching for dolphins, seals, porpoises and flapper skates. Ardnamurchan boat charters is a 10-minute walk from the house, and offers both guided and independent rentals. Guided open-water swimming, cycling (both road and electric), kayaking and canoeing are also available. And there’s a highly regarded Adelphi whisky distillery nearby at Ardnamurchan, known for its single malt.

Location

Borradill, Glenborrodale, Acharacle, Scotland. Nearest airport: Glasgow (3.5 hours). Or take the Caledonian Sleeper train from London to Fort William, then drive 1.5 hours.

Best time to visit

Year round