Holiay Retrospective - Pipers Cottage Lamlash

We have visited the Isle of Arran for more years than I care to remember [somewhere in the region of  20+ years] and for the first few years we stayed with a delightful couple called Robin & Ann Whitla. Robin was one of the resident doctors on the island, and his wife Ann had been a nurse. The had met out on Ascension Island some years before, and as Anne originally came from Sanquhar (which is not too far away from the Isle of Arran, but on the Scottish mainland), it seemed that settling on the Isle of Arran was a good idea.

The ran a bed and breakfast establishment in a large detached house in Brodick called "Auchenard," and we stayed with them for three or four years, until they decided to retire from the B & B business. About twelve years ago they decided to move house and bought a small bungalow called Pipers Cottage on Shore Road at Lamlash. We have always kept in touch with them when we have visited Arran and called in to see them.

We have stayed with various other people in Brodick, but four years ago when Ruby arrived on the scene it necessitated us finding another place to stay which would accommodate a dog. I looked on the Internet, and chose a self catering establishment, a studio cottage at Prospect Hill, which turned out to be up a short hill nearly at the end of Shore Road in Lamlash. 

I rang Robin & Ann to let them know that we would be on Arran during 17 - 24 September and would be calling in to see them (we had missed them last year as they were away on holiday in Spain!) and Ann broke the bombshell - that they had decided to sell Pipers Cottage and move to some accommodation similar to a McCarthy & Stone complex, but on the mainland near Hamilton. It really felt like an era gone as we have known Robin and Ann and visited them for 20+ years.


These are photographs of their property featured by their estate agents on Arran. If only we had the money we would love to have been able to have bought it!

 Pipers Cottage, with conservatory overlooking Holy Isle

 Pipers Cottage - Conservatory with view of Holy Isle

 Lounge

 Dining Room looking towards the kitchen

 Dining Room looking towards the conservatory

Bathroom & Toilet

So if you know anybody who has the odd £285,000 knocking about and doesn't know what to do with it, point them in our direction!

 Robin & Ann outside Pipers Cottage

 Robin & Ann outside Pipers Cottage

Robin Dot & Ann outside Pipers Cottage.