Dalgety House

A Victorian house in the middle of Peebles, sleeping eight

Dalgety is a four-bedroom Victorian house on a quiet street in Peebles, and what makes it unusual among eight-berth properties is that it is in a town rather than at the end of a track. The shops, the restaurants, the river and the bus to Edinburgh are a five minute walk, so a group of eight is not committed to cooking every night or nominating a driver.

Inside it has been kept as a house. Original shutters, a decorative fireplace, antiques, and each bedroom given its own colour rather than the beige that usually comes with this many beds. There is a sitting room with proper sofas and a wood burner, a separate dining room with a table for eight, and a kitchen with a range cooker, induction hob, American fridge freezer and a dishwasher.

Outside there is a private rear courtyard that seats eight under festoon lighting, a charcoal BBQ, an enclosed side garden and lawn, and a garage for bikes.

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Features

Location

Where it puts you

Peebles sits on the Tweed, and the river is the reason most people come: the salmon and trout fishing on this beat is among the best in the south of Scotland, and the Tweed Valley is one of the strongest mountain biking areas in Britain. Glentress and Innerleithen are ten to fifteen minutes away, which is why the garage matters.

On foot, the John Buchan Way starts in the town and the walk up to Neidpath Castle along the river is an easy hour. Traquair House, the oldest continuously inhabited house in Scotland, is fifteen minutes east, and Edinburgh is under an hour. The Scottish Borders page covers the rest of the valley.