![]() ![]() This is our own holiday house, which we use ourselves and it is furnished with some of our family furniture. Since then it has been meticulously restored to a high standard, preserving the traditional exterior features and appearance, but with a modernised interior, being completed in 2011. It became derelict in the 1980s and was bought by us in 2005 as a small-scale ‘Grand Designs’ adventure. The present house was built around 1905 in the traditional style on top of an earlier black house. There has probably been a house on this site for several hundred years and it is marked on the earliest maps. A further ferry from Skye serves Tarbert on the Isle of Harris, just over an hour’s drive from Callanish. A ferry service operates from Ullapool on the mainland to Stornoway, following which a 20-minute drive will take you to the site, or alternatively bus service W2 runs directly to the Visitor Centre. It is then 30 minutes to Callanish by car or bus. The Callanish Stones are located in Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, 12 miles from Stornoway off the A859. Travel to 4 Callanish is very straightforward either by air to Stornoway from Glasgow, Edinburgh or Inverness or by sea from Ullapool. There are many visitor attractions in the vicinity, both historic or adventurous with virtually unlimited access to walking and nature. ![]() Its situation on the island is fairly central and hence not too far from the shops and restaurants of Stornoway and equally a short drive to the beaches of the North-West coast. ![]() The house is only ten minutes walk from the famous and historic Callanish Stones and Visitor Centre. There is a large, attractive, double-height reception room equipped with satellite television and BT Internet Wi-Fi and a large sun room facing to the Callanish stones with distant views of inner Loch Roag. It has under-floor heating throughout the ground floor, a fully appointed kitchen with AGA-style cooker and two generous bath/shower rooms. No.4 Callanish is a rebuilt and fully modernised cottage with three bedrooms, sleeping six in all. Accommodation | Self Catering - Callanish - Isle of Lewis ![]()
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