Squirrel Cottage, Self catering accommodation in Killiecrankie, Near Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.

Squirrel Cottage, offers a superb venue for your self catering holiday near Pitlochry. Set in a secluded location in Killiecrankie, 3 miles equidistant from Pitlochry and Blair Atholl in Highland Perthshire. You will find this holiday self-catering cottage very well equipped. Read what our guests have to say.

Squirrel self catering cottage is ideal for those who just want to spend most of your time in the cottage relaxing, while its location at the geographic centre of Scotland makes it ideal for those who want to tour locally and further a field. The main A9 road is a five minute drive away on traffic free roads.

From Squirrel Cottage you have magnificent un spoilt views of the oak wood at the back of the cottage, the Alt Girnaig burn (stream) to the side and the formal garden and hills to the front.The Alt Girnaig (stream) and its waterfalls all add to the atmosphere of the location.

You will find a variety of different wild life from birds to mammals. Yes we have red squirrels which we feed through four squirrel feeders. So if you would like a red squirrel hoilday this is the place. There are a whole range of walks from Squirrel Cottage, to Blair Atholl, through the Killiecrankie Pass, to Pitlochry and in the surrounding hills and Glens.

Squirrel Cottage is a superb self catering holiday cottage, recently modernised, with a large conservatory over looking the formal garden, surrounded by mature deciduous trees. It has a good sized living room, with a telephone, TV and DVD player. We have now installed a bio fireplace in the living room, the real flame adds to the warmth and atmosphere. The large single bedroom has plenty of cupboard space.

A non smoking self-catering cottage apartment with large conservatory occupies the ground floor of the left wing in a traditionally built Coach House, set in a secluded location. Read what our guests have to say.

The large conservatory at the front of the Squirrel Cottage (has proven to be very popular) has a good sized dining room table and two cane rocking chairs and two foot stools in which you can relax and watch the birds at the feeders. There are two bird feeder points in the garden where you will often see a variety of birds from wood pigeons, collared doves, pheasants, jackdaws, woodpeckers, chaffinch, robins, black birds, blue tits, green finch and more coming to feed.

This winter we seen Jays,in the woods from behind Squrrel cottage an occassionally at the feeders infront and at the back of Squirrel Cottage.

If you are thinking of heading north you might to look at our cousins two cottages www.highlandcottages.org

Why not book a week at Squirrel Cottage self catering cottage, here in beautiful Highland Perthshire, near Pitlochry and Blair Atholl.

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Short Break Specials
Squirrel Cottage is fully booked over the
summer of 2008.
We offer short breaks at squirrel Cottage
over the winter months, November
to March. Check out availability

5 Stars or not!!!!!
We were awarded 5stars by the Tourist Board
iinspector on the 22/02/2006 for Squirrel Cottage.
At the end of May we were advised that for 5 stars
you need two inspection passes. So on the 6th June
along came another inspector who advised us Squirrel
Cottage is only 4 stars as the loo is not seperate to the
bathroom. Also the kitchen, although perfectly adequate
and comfortable for two people is not suitable for more
people.(How many people do you want in your kitchen to
help prepare the meal one asks? Even though Squirrel
Cottage only sleeps two.) Their reasoning is that you
might like to entertain lots of people when staying at
Squirrel Cottage.

Squirrel Cottage's marks from the Tourist Board
Assessors were 90%.
5 Star accommodation requires a mark of 87% or better!!!

Wild Life.
Last yearwe saw regular visits to the feeders by a family
of Jays. They even brought their 2006 youngsters. The
autum seeds from all the various trees and bushes,were
plentiful, so the Jays have only been back briefly in the
autumn searching for acorns in the oak woods behind
Squirrel Cottage .

Red Squirrels - we have a huge number of Red Squirrels
about this winter (2007/8), which is surprising as the frost
iin the spring did not kill all the flowers on the trees and bushes
so there should be plenty of squirrel food about. One of our guests
idenetified 16 different red squirrels (noting all their characteristics too)
this summer. Well worth a read in our wild life obseravtion book.

We are now feeding Niger seeds, which has brought in
Siskins and Gold Finch to the garden, which are great
to see.

Cycle routes in Highland Perthshire - cyclists might be
interested a new web site put up detailing many cycle rides
in Highland Perthshire www.cyclehighlandperthshire.com

Our new bio-fire place

We have installed a bio-fire place
in the living room. This environmentally
friendly fire burns plant fuel giving off
carbon dioxide and non toxic fumes. It
has a real flame, all adding to make for
cosy winter nights in. If you decide to
book we will demonstrate the fire to
you on arrival.

On our trip to India, for two weeks in
February 2006, we came back with two
lovely carpets for the sitting room. Well,
we hope you also think so!