Altogether there are a variety of bedrooms, each with its own bathroom or shower-room en suite.

Some are in the main part of the farmhouse, others surround a sheltered courtyard which has a rock garden, pond and fountain.

Right;
Scandinavian Suite.

The bedrooms are very comfortable, furnished with antiques, and decorated imaginatively.

They include a Chinese Suite, Indian Suite, Victorian Suite, Scottish Traditional Suite, Scandinavian Suite, Macintosh Suite and Creole Suite.

Right;
Victorian Suite.

Right;
Detail from the Highland Suite.

Below centre;
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Suite.

Below left;
Drawing room (with log fire).

The Dining Room. Special diets can be happily catered for with advance notice.

Celia specialises in game cooking (much from the estate itself) and dinners are relaxed and generous, country house style, around a long table in the oak panelled Dining Room.

After dinner you can relax in the comfortable Drawing Room where there is a log fire, or play snooker on the full-size table in the Billiards Room where there is an honesty bar.
An example meal chosen from the menu:

Wild Duck Patè with Home-Made Bread
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Poached Salmon Fillets with an Orange and Wine Sauce
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Highland Fling Dessert with Home-Made Shortbread.

Craigadam was a finalist in the 'Macallan Taste of Scotland' awards in 2000 and 2001, and has an RAC Rosette for cuisine.

A choice of cereals, fruit juice, apricot and ginger compôte, prunes, figs in orange juice and Martini, grapefruit, kiwi, grape and melon compôte with limes and mint, natural and fruit yoghurt, home-made bread and home-made marmalade, full cooked Scottish breakfast (fresh fish with advance notice), freshly ground coffee, tea.

Walk over the fields about a mile behind the house and you come to a loch (trout fishing available), with magnificent views south over unspoilt countryside to distant hills on the horizon. The estate has an abundance of wildlife: wide diversity of habitat encourages a particularly interesting variety of plants animals and birds.

• Walking.
• Bird watching: Raptors, owls, waders, woodland birds, duck, geese.
• Highland cattle, Sheep.
• Fishing : two miles of the River Nith, Salmon and Sea-trout.
• A beat on the River Cairn, Salmon and Sea-trout.
• The Craigadam trout loch, Rainbow Trout of up to 6 lb.
• Hill-lochs with wild Brown Trout.
• Shooting : Driven Shooting, Rough Shooting and Wildfowling.
• Deer Stalking : rifle or camera.

from £47 per person per night, including breakfast, and based on two people sharing.

from £28.50 Dinner.

There is sometimes a Special Offer available at Craigadam. Please ask!

Please contact:
Celia and Richard Pickup,
email: inquiry@craigadam.com
Craigadam,
Kirkpatrick Durham,
Kirkudbrightshire, DG7 3HU
Scotland, UK
Tel: 01556 650233
Fax: 01556 650100
(or from outside the UK:
Tel: 44 1556 650233
Fax: 44 1556 650100)

Please tell Celia and Richard you found Craigadam through About Scotland!