Email Eildon Holiday Cottages enquiries & reservations: bookscotland@madbookings.com
Other places to stay in and around Melrose
The
award-winning Eildon Holiday Cottages are self catering
holiday properties situated in the beautiful Scottish Borders, including
six modern cottages formed from the conversion of Georgian stone farm
buildings dating from 1830, originally part of the Duke of Buccleuch's
estate.
The farmhouse and cottages are built of Melrose stone, a lovely old-rose
colour.
We are ideally placed for touring the beautiful Scottish Borders countryside
on traffic-free roads.
The cottages have won many awards including national accessibility awards,
the Central Borders' Civic Trust Special Award for excellence, special
mention in the National Civic Trust awards, and two architectural awards
for the design and landscaping of the cottage complex.
Eildon Holiday Cottages Accommodation
Eildon Holiday Cottages is a converted Georgian farm
steading comprising six self-catering cottages formed from the conversion
of Georgian stone farm buildings dating from 1830.
All are bright, warm, comfortable, very well equipped and the accessible
adaptations for disabled and elderly visitors, with five of the cottages
designated Category 1, are subtle and unobtrusive.
Eildon Holiday Cottages is ideally placed for touring
the beautiful Scottish Borders countryside on traffic-free roads, whether
motoring or cycling.We have dog friendly cottages, allergy
friendly cottages.
Design for accessibilty Eildon Holiday Cottages were
originally designed from the realisation that it was impossible for families
with disabled and severely disabled members to find any suitable self-catering
holiday accommodation with facilities for all the family to take
a holiday together.
In addition there is The Granary, a first floor flat,
which of course is not suitable for the less able but which nonetheless
incorporates many of the special features of the cottages.
Access to the cottages and easy manoeuvrability within them is ideal for
the disabled.
Each cottage has its own single car parking space immediately
outside the door.
We have one allergy-free cottage, Langrig, where there
are no feathers and we use no aerosols.
All of the cottages are designated non-smoking.
We are dog-friendly, with pets allowed except in Langrig (see above).We
also provide other special equipment for disabled guests, as well as cots
and high chairs for infants.
Category 1 Cottages:
Five of the six cottages are graded Category 1.
All have at least one bedroom on the ground floor level,with
either a bathroom or wheel-in shower room.
Grab rails in bath and shower rooms and let-down rails beside WCs.Ample
side-loading to WCs.
All doorways at least 780mm wide, most over 800mm.
Low-level switches.
Low windows.
There is one high-level arm chair in each cottage, 22 inches from the
ground.
Level throughout the ground floors.
No ramps or steps.
Accessible kitchens with some low level worktops.
Accessible sinks and hobs.
No low-level cupboards.
Eildon Holiday Cottages Facilities
There is an oil-fired central heating system, but additional electric
radiators are also provided in all bedrooms for added comfort.
Electricity is separately metered and charged.
Fax/Email Facilities
Internet Access
Laundry Facilities on Complex
Outdoor Drying Facility
Garden For Residents Use
CD/DVD Player Available
Dishwasher
Freezer
Fridge
Microwave
Parking
Payphones Available
Radio/Television
Z Bed available on request
Pets Welcome, Charge Applies
High Chair Charge
Cot Available, Charge Applies
Other Disabled Facilities
No Smoking Permitted
No credit cards accepted
No Food Arrangements
Activities
The Borders abounds with many fascinating places of interest, from Floors
Castle, the home of the Duke of Roxburgh, to Abbotsford,
the former home of the novelist Sir Walter Scott, which
is less than 4 miles away.
Hill walking and golf are available
almost from the door of the cottages, and the beautiful River Tweed, which
runs through Melrose, offers salmon and trout fishing.
Melrose's 9-hole golf course is at the bottom of our
private road on the approach to the cottages.
From the cottages there is a footpath down to Melrose town, which is part
of the 100-kilometre St Cuthbert's Way that starts in Melrose and ends
at Lindisfarne, and of course Melrose is the home of the famous Melrose
Rugby Sevens tournament held in April each year.
Attractions
Bamburgh Castle Northumberland Standing on a rocky outcrop
Manderston Duns Berwickshire
Thirlestane Castle Lauder
Abbotsford House Melrose is the exclusive creation and
home of Sir Walter Scott. His “Conundrum Castle”
was where Scotland’s greatest son created a notion of Scotland that
was more romantic perhaps,
Farne Islands Northumberland Bird reserve
holding 55,000 pairs of breeding birds and home to large colony of grey
seals.
Floors Castle Kelso Roxburghshire, the largest inhabited
castle in Scotland, home to the Dike and Duchess of Roxburgh and their
family.
Kailzie Garden near Peebles, a garden for all seasons
17 acres with formal walled gardens, woodland walks, herbaceous borders,
greenhouses, plants for sale, art gallery and tearoom.
Bowhill House and Country Parknear Selkirk
home of the Duke and Duchess of Bucccleuch. Internationally renowned art
collection, Victorian kitchen, adventure playground.
Traquair House Peebles, dating back to 1007, Traquair
was originally a hunting lodge for the kings and queens of Scotland and
is Scotland's oldest inhabited house.
Directions
From the A68 take the A6091 Melrose by-pass, and after 1½ miles
take the right turn into Melrose.
After 400 yards the road narrows and you will enter the town square.
Take an immediate left (at the monument in the square) onto the B6359
Dingleton Road.
Drive up the hill, under the by-pass fly-over, and continue for ½
mile.
Turn left into Melrose Golf Club.
Drive past the clubhouse and continue down the single track road.
300 yards after the clubhouse you will cross a small bridge as you approach
the farmhouse (with the large white gates) on the left.
Drive around the back of the farmhouse and when you reach "The Arches",
turn left into the courtyard at the rear and ring the back door bell to
collect your key.
From Melrose, buses run to Edinburgh and Newcastle, as well as to all
local Borders towns and to the rail stations of Berwick and Carlisle.
Edinburgh and the coasts of Northumberland and Berwickshire are all within
an easy one-hour drive.
Email Eildon Holiday Cottages enquiries & reservations: bookscotland@madbookings.com
