Accommodation:
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The cottage itself has been sensitively restored. The old kitchen with its original Victorian cast iron range and bread oven has been preserved and is now the sitting room. Don't expect everything to be new. The kitchen is basic but functional, some of the carpets are a bit worn, but quite acceptable. There's plenty of local history and poetry to read by the fire in the evening under the warm glow of the wall-mounted gaslights. One visitor, a writer, found the sense of peace so profound and the atmosphere so elevating that he completed a book while staying here. |
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View of the Loch from upstairs
Please note:
- Coal, and calor gas is available at cost price.
- There is no electricity, telephone or television.
- 75 yards behind the house is a ravine which could be a hazard for small children.
- There is a small enclosed garden in front of the house.
- This is a working farm and visitors, children especially, have always been welcome to take an interest in what's going on.
- Very well-behaved dogs are welcome.
Walking: The Roughley Cottage, is on a large hill farm and the owners, Toby and Emma Tennant, are only too happy (provided of course that you respect the interests of the farm) that you roam over its ancient drove-roads in order to get to such places as Nine Stane Rig, where there's a Celtic stone circle, or Bloody Bush, the remote and forgotten boundary toll, or across the valley to Hazelyside Rig, Black Bogs or Crossbow Hill. Hermitage Castle lies in the valley below.
Wildlife and Fishing on the Roughley Loch:
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Fishing is available on the loch by arrangement. A few yards from the house (right) is a well-stocked (brown trout) private loch, and a boat house with a rowing boat. Trout up to 3 lbs are often caught on a fly. Wildlife abounds in this unspoilt landscape; a visitor's note in the cottage log-book records 81 species of birds seen in one week in June. |
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Rustic Kitchen, home-produced food
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Joyce Forster who lives on the farm, has won many awards at local shows for her Rustic Kitchen baking and preserves. If you would like to try some of her prize-winning cakes, biscuits, jams or jellies, they can be ordered before you arrive for your holiday. Meat and game is also available from the farm in season. A detailed list will be sent with your booking form. |
Read the Visitors' Comments from The Roughley Cottage Guest Book here... |
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Tariff:
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Prices range between £290 (in the low season) and £495, per week for the cottage sleeping up to 7.
Gas and coal is payable at cost on departure |
To enquire or to book:
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Please contact:
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Owners Toby and Emma Tennant, have two other cottages in this area (map below). |
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The Scottish Borders
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The Roughley is an ideal base from which to explore the magnificent country and many historic towns and buildings of the Borders:
Emma Tennant makes traditional rag rugs. This one is in a bedroom upstairs. |
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