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Home of the week: the perfect escape in musical Moniaive

This Arts and Crafts lodge in Moniaive is a bonnie bolt hole
This three-bedroom lodge is available through Savills for offers of more than £330,000
This three-bedroom lodge is available through Savills for offers of more than £330,000

Special homes can also be tiny homes, as Crawfordton Lodge proves. This dinky Arts and Crafts-style property is B listed and sits near the entrance gates that lead to Crawfordton House, an imposing mansion whose owner put it up for sale last year without finishing its restoration.

You can see three glens from the windows — Craigdarroch, Dalwhat and Castlefairn
You can see three glens from the windows — Craigdarroch, Dalwhat and Castlefairn

There are no such concerns with the three-bedroom lodge, which has been subject to a chimney-to-carpet overhaul over the past three years. The owners put in central heating, repainted and replaced the stonework on the roof, updated the flooring, refurbished the kitchen and double-glazed most of the sash and case windows.

The bathroom, which has a rolltop tub and shower, is on the ground floor
The bathroom, which has a rolltop tub and shower, is on the ground floor

Crawfordton Lodge was designed by the renowned Glasgow architecture firm Kinnear and Peddie from drawings dating from 1882. The practice also designed the starry domed ceiling of