Waterloo Lodge

Three en-suite bedrooms and a hillside full of view

Waterloo Lodge sits at Baddidarroch, on the hillside above Lochinver, and everything in it is arranged around the same view: the bay below, the fishing boats coming in, and the Assynt peaks behind. The living space is glazed floor to ceiling and the kitchen and dining room runs to seven metres square, with a six seat table, a breakfast bar for four, and sliding doors straight out to the garden.

The master bedroom is upstairs, with a super king bed, a bath and a waterfall shower in the en-suite, and its own balcony behind panoramic doors. Downstairs there is a queen room and a twin, both en-suite, both with walk-in wardrobes. Six people, three bathrooms, and nobody sharing.

Outside there is a heated jacuzzi looking down the bay, an infrared sauna for after a hill day, a paved seating area, a barbecue and outdoor speakers. Heating is geothermal and underfloor, so the lodge is genuinely warm in winter, and there is a log fire for the evenings when that is the point.

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Features

Location

Where it puts you

Assynt is the strangest looking country on the NC500, and Lochinver is the middle of it. Suilven rises straight out of empty moor behind the village and is a long, memorable day on foot. Stac Pollaidh to the south is a much shorter walk with a view out of all proportion to the climb, and Quinag and Canisp fill in the rest of the skyline.

The coast west of here is a string of white sand bays, Achmelvich, Clachtoll and Stoer among them, all within a short drive and all quieter than anything on the west coast has any right to be. The lighthouse at Stoer Head and the walk out to the Old Man of Stoer make a good half day.