Vacation Rental Description
Situated in glorious Strathearn, within a 10-minute walk of the attractive conservation village of Dunning, 9 miles west of Perth city, visitors enjoy this wonderfully central location about an hour’s drive from either of Glasgow or Edinburgh airports. The area offers everything from wonderful gardens, castles, whisky distilleries, great shopping for antiques, cashmeres and Scottish specialities, entertainment from a ceilidh to a classical concert, and a fine base for your family history research. A golfer's paradise with a 9-Hole golf course at Dunning, an 18-hole course 2 miles, and the world acclaimed Gleneagles Golf Courses 7 miles, there are 41 courses in Perthshire.
Stay at the Tower House if you are on holiday, visiting relatives, in the area for a wedding. Treat yourself to a romantic break in this most unusual of holiday apartments. The 5 star Tower House is a romantic hideway for 2 persons. The Tower House has kitchen dining sitting room on the ground floor (originally a Lady Chapel) and a steep stone spiral staircase leads to a bedroom and bathroom. The bedroom features painted cherubs on the ceiling. The furnishing fabrics used are in tartan and tweed and Scottish made. Stone flying angels hold up the kitchen ceiling which also features a stained glass window. In the knave of the chapel guests can play badminton and table tennis.
Visit our glorious gardens, castles, distilleries and many visitor attractions. Enjoy golfing, walking, bird watching, cycling, riding and other activities.
Research your family history using the excellent resource of the AK Bell Library in Perth or the Tay Valley History Society.
Visitors frequently enjoy trips to Stirling and the Trossachs, Royal Deeside, Dundee, City of the Discovery, the Fife and its fishing villages, Inverness and Glencoe, as well as visiting the local attractions that include distilleries, gardens, castles, Highland Games, ancestry research, ancient monuments.
There's a superb choice of places to eat and excellent shopping, whether your taste is for cashmeres, antiques, pottery, local crafts ... or just relax in the comfort of your 5-star apartment.
St Andrews, Home of Golf, is around an hour's drive and it has superb beaches for walking. Visit castles, gardens, walk, golf and sight see in this glorious, scenic part of Perthshire. Stirling Castle is around 30 mintues away and the Tullibardine and Famous Grouse distilleries are local. Visit Scone Palace near Perth, ancient crowning place of the Kings of Scotland, a Race Course, Blair Castle, Glamis Castle. There are glorioius gardens in Perthshire, lots of good walking and an excellent theatre in Pitlochry and the Horsecross Concert Hall in Perth.
Our central Perthshire location makes us popular with visitors. No matter which direction you choose, you will find variety, magnificent scenery and many things to see and do. With everything to offer from a ceilidh to a classical concert, gardens to grand castles, golf courses, whisky distilleries, restaurants and much, much more ... this is an ideal setting from which to explore Scotland's glorious scenery, history and culture.
Facilities
Cooking Utensils
Dishwasher
Dryer
DVD
Heating
Ice Maker
Kitchen
Microwave
Amenity Parking
Refrigerator
TV
Washer
The Tower House is one of the most unusual holiday apartments you are ever likely to stay in; surrounded by as much of the original stone work and stained glass window that could be retained, the interior is decorated with tweeds and tartans and everything has been done to make the apartment as comfortable as possible. There is no Broadband connection in our 19th century chapel but we can offer Internet Broadband in our holiday cottage office nearby.
Activities
Adventure Sports
Playground
Cinema
Fishing
Golf
Gym
Horse Riding
Restaurant
Sailing
Shopping
Tennis
Theater
From the Tower House you can walk at Duncrub Park. There are a number of very good walks in the area. Walk from the doorstep by taking the much-enjoyed local walk to the village via the south drive and back via the road and the north drive - this is a brisk 35 minutes'walk. In Tower House you will find a list of local walks, booklets with Perthshire walks, and we have a selection of Ordinance Survey maps that may be borrowed for walks further afield.
Bicyles may be hired locally.
Highland Adverture Safaris Award-winning exciting off-road adventure in a safari landrover in search of highland wildlife - professional guide and spectacular scenery. Includes refreshments.
Splash Whitewater Rafting Aberfeldy. Scotland's premier rafting company pioneering the UK's best white water. Other activities include abseiling, rap jumping and bridge swinging, river bugging and canyoning.