Orlege End

Meeting the needs of our less mobile guests

    * Car parking very close to entry
    * No steps at entry or on ground floor
    * Wood and natural stone flooring throughout
    * Ground floor bathroom
    * One step up to shower cabinet
    * Comfortable double bed on ground floor
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      2 storey accommodation: flight of 15 stairs

Stylish, sumptuous, contemporary, open-plan, exciting, elegant, stunning, a holiday romance . All these words have been used by guests to describe this open-flow, contemporary conversion completed in December 2004 and named after the fields it overlooks. Designed for flexibility, Orlege is the perfect honeymoon hideaway, but appeals just as much to families or business people in search of luxury or utopia.

This accommodation really is Wow! Its two-storeyed layout is excitingly different, with the most wonderful star and angled shapes of coombed ceilings in the bedroom and bathroom upstairs accessed via a mezzanine-level gallery, whilst downstairs curved walls, and a double-height living space marry well with the original beams in the kitchen. Unusual features have been preserved from its former function as a building for rolling oats for feeding to livestock. With its Scandinavian glazed sliding doors, Velux roof-windows, solid oak floors and doors, wonderful limestone flagstones, open stairwell and ash staircase with tension wire balustrades, solid oak kitchen units and black granite worktop, it's bright, white, light and airy. Matching the granite hearth in the living-room are Juperana Bordeaux granite large windowsills reflecting within their polished depths the branches of the maple tree outside.

Layout: (please pay attention to the sleeping arrangements outlined below as they are a bit different and, though sleeping up to 6 people, will not suit everyone's requirements).

Upstairs is a large, split level bedroom with a star-shaped coombed ceiling which has 3 single luxurious divan beds. Wake up in the morning, pull back the velux blinds to right and left of you and feel close to heaven! Two of these single beds can push together and be zip-linked to form a large kingsize double bed. This gives the flexibility of using this bedroom as either a family room, or for 3 singles, or as a double bedroom. Off the upstairs bedroom is an ensuite bathroom full of light, shapes and surprises!

Also upstairs, before you enter through the door into the bedroom, is an inviting gallery area . A great spot to relax with a book, or to gaze across and out of the upper storey window or view from aloft the larger part of the stylish living area below . As well as a lounger and other incidental furniture, the space here allows for a sofa bed which can sleep an "extra person", or even two slim cuddly people: the mattress width is 124cms. A normal single is 90cms. and a conventional double is 135 cms). Please note anyone sleeping here would need to go through another "sleeping area" to reach a bathroom.

Outside of Orlege EndDownstairs the spacious living area has split level ceiling heights for interest; at the back is a large solid oak cupboard which, within it, hides a surprisingly discreet double bed with an extremely comfortable fully sprung mattress. One pull of the handle and this bed can come down at night and disappear out of sight again during the day with bedding largely intact and only a row of elegant daytime cupboards on show. Concealed within the cupboard doors, on either side of the pull-down bed, is hanging and shelf-space. With one swish an optional double-sided curtain can snake its way at night across the ceiling track here at the back of the living area to provide privacy to anyone in the double pull-down bed using this as a sleeping area. Visually this lower ceiling-ed area then reflects a normal bedroom except that one wall is curtained. This "bedroom" even has its own open-able window. What we can't offer here is sound-proofing. Click here to see moving images of how this area can be effortlessly transformed into a bedroom. And click again to see its en-suite bathroom which also has a power-shower enclosure.

At the front of the double-height living space, filled with light from both the original windows in the end gable and the new glazed sliding doors that open onto the small flagstoned courtyard, is the multi-fuel stove which burns peat, coal and logs. And what could be nicer than relaxing in one of the two large leather settees or a large bean bag in front of a real living fire? Or dining in splendour seated around the glass dining-table which seats 6, flickering flames in the hearth close by, soft music from the CD player in the background? The effect is of gracious, spacious living.

The equally voluminous and airy kitchen downstairs has lots of interesting features. Granite worktops, oak units and, thanks to the underfloor heating throughout the downstairs, warm-to-the-feet limestone flags. Overlooking you from a floored ledge up above is Mr. Fox eyeing up his cockerel lunch (a separate sculpture), his jaunty stance artistically captured in metal! Also high up are the old beams and centuries old pulley wheels. The kitchen is exceptionally well equipped, sharing all the features common to all our properties as described on our More Info. Page, additionally offering a wall-mounted third TV. And for those impromptu alfresco meals the kitchen table and chairs in the corner are light enough to carry outside through the glazed patio doors and onto the cobbled patio area which belongs exclusively to Orlege.


Fitted and furnished to an exemplary standard, each property is superbly and thoughtfully equipped, with all those welcome extra touches - fresh flowers, games, toys, teddies and plentiful up-to-date tourist information.  You'll find special folders full of information on local attractions and activities and for an at-home day, there are books for all tastes. Escape into the magical world of Harry Potter, imaginatively conceived at a cafe table just 18 miles from us! Or immerse yourself in a classic, a thriller or romance.

Beds are made up ready for guests (some have electric blankets). In the kitchen we provide an electric cooker, microwave, fridge, freezer, dishwasher  as well as quality crockery, cutlery, pots and pans, food processor, kettle, coffee maker and toaster. And cooking gadgets galore. Need a hairdryer,  ironing board, iron, shoe cleaning equipment?  It's all there.  Other facilities include washing machine, tumble dryer, colour TV, DVD player, video-recorder and payphone. (As well as being able to ring out, friends and family can reach you direct "at home" if you choose to give out the number.)  And to complete the relaxing ambience, all 4 properties now have a hi-fi system.  So bring a little bit of  "home"  away with you in the form of CDs, tapes or DVDs.

Relax cosily in front of a multi-fuel stove which burns peat, coal and logs.  A flick of a switch will also bring you oil-fired central heating and hot water delivered at times that suit your lifestyle. With a back-up electric immersion heater ( rarely used ), bath and power shower, all the conveniences of modern living are to hand.  Child's cot, more portable travel cot, baby intercom, high chair and other gadgets all available on request.  Very child-friendly. 

Coal, home-produced peat and logs (when available). Electricity by meter reading at start and end of stay (no coins).  Oil for the Central Heating as used.

We find a huge variation in guests' usage of fuel and electricity. For this reason we feel it is fairer to charge fuel and electricity 'at cost', as an extra, at the end of the stay, based on actual recorded measurements of consumption. That way the more economical guests are not subsidising the more extravagant users as so often happens when an 'all-in rental' figure is quoted. All-in rentals tend to build in a fuel allowance based on average to high usage. Our system means you only pay for what you use.  

If you need enhanced access to the phone-line in your property, perhaps to connect to your own pc. with its web or e-mail services, please let us know. When we can, we try to make suitable arrangements and save you a trek elsewhere for these facilities. We can unlock the payphone and provide you with a telephone socket and ordinary phone. You then pay us for your calls at BT cost-price ( non-profit-making rates ) + £2.53 per week / part week for the line rental. The Wing and Orlege offer free wi-fi in the cottages ( bring  your own laptop). Guests in Steading Cottage are welcome to park their car in our front drive, get out their lap-top and make free use of our wi-fi, day or night.

Imagine the best of both worlds.. two stunning cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow within an hour's drive and .midway.Crosswoodhill, a haven of rural tranquillity. Ideally situated for exploring the scenic splendours of the Borders, Perthshire, Fife, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. An hour transports you north to Rob Roy and Braveheart Country. South, just 15 miles away, lies spectacular New Lanark World Heritage Centre, with Burns and golf country not too far away. Even Inverness and monster hunting in the Highlands is achievable in a day!

Less than an hour's drive away are palaces, castles, stately homes, a huge range of museums, a zoo and butterfly farm. With hill walking, fishing, golf, an impressive choice of indoor leisure pursuits and wonderful shops, galleries, theatres and restaurants all so close, there's an amazing amount to see and do --- for all ages, all interests and in all weathers.

Personal Website:

http://www.crosswoodhill.co.uk/orlege.htm

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