The Old Workshop

One room, a stream, and nine acres of garden

The Old Workshop is what the name says. Eastwood's working building, high on the bank of the stream that runs down through the garden grounds, has been opened out into a single room for two. Oak floors and painted timber panelling run through it, a lounge area sits at one end and a well equipped kitchen at the other, and large bi-fold doors fold back onto decked seating that faces the garden with the Tay beyond.

The bed is a superking, or twins if you ask when you book, which a studio rarely offers. Heating is electric and underfloor, so the wood burning stove is there for the evenings rather than for getting through the day. The kitchen runs to a combi microwave oven and a fridge with a freezer compartment rather than a full cooker, and there is a Nespresso machine. The dining table seats four, two more than the studio sleeps.

The grounds are the other half of what you are booking. Eastwood was once part of the Atholl Estates and still holds nine acres of riverside garden and woodland looking across to Birnam Wood and Birnam Hill, and studio guests have the run of it. Trout fishing comes by arrangement, in Eastwood's own named pools on the Tay.

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Features

Location

Where it puts you

Dunkeld is half a mile west and Eastwood counts it as walking distance, which puts the shops, the cafés, and the riverside pubs within reach without moving the car. Birnam Wood and Birnam Hill fill the view from the far bank.

Upriver is where the white water is, and Nae Limits runs rafting and canyoning from Ballinluig, further up the A9. South on the same road is Perth, close enough for a day out of the garden, and our two day guide to Perth covers what to do with one. Eastwood puts Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Inverness inside ninety minutes on the A9 as well.