Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 35 on 15/11/2007.

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The lap of luxury

Ian Buxton visits Corrour Lodge, an exclusive holiday home in the Highlands

Is Scotland credible as a luxury destination, at the very top of the global market? That was the daunting question facing an group of travel writers, and your humble correspondent, on a recent trip to a hidden jewel in the heart of a Scottish estate.

Our base was Corrour Lodge, a £20m+ Highland hideaway on the shores of Loch Ossian, acclaimed by The Royal Fine Arts Commission of Scotland as ‘destined to become one of the few examples of worldclass 20th-century architecture in Scotland.’ Corrour Lodge is certainly stunning – a dramatic modernist structure, surrounded by remaining Victorian buildings and a developing planned landscape garden that is at once naturalistic and yet cerebral.

The house is centred round a glass vaulted Great Hall filled with contemporary art and found objects – the jawbone of a sperm whale and the fossilised head of a giant Irish elk as examples. A radical design divides the property into two parts, which are split by great conical and pyramidal walls of glass facing onto the loch.

Naturally, all eight guest suites enjoy panoramic views of the magnificent natural landscape. But Corrour is about the great outdoors as well. So our party met head stalker Niall Rowantree to learn about stalking and, within a short period, were firing a lethal-looking rifle on fixed targets with considerable accuracy.

Stalking, for both red and roe deer, is just one of the activities available at Corrour.

Here, visitors can also enjoy grouse shooting; walking and cli.....

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By Ian Buxton

Section : Best of Scotland

Page number : 48