The Cottage — Barra Woodview

Barra Woodview is a four-bedroom holiday home sleeping up to eight, with a sitting room that faces west so you can watch the sun set over the Minch without getting up from the sofa. The kitchen is properly equipped — not a “one pan and a can opener” situation — and the open fire draws beautifully, which matters more than you’d think in October.

Sleeping eight across four bedrooms

There’s a comfortable double, a triple room, a single, and a bright corner suite, so families and groups can spread out. Beds are made up with fresh linen for your arrival, and there’s a travel cot and highchair available on request for little ones.

Main Double Bedroom

The main double: a bright, calm room with a comfortable queen bed and — the real luxury for a self-catering week — two full-height built-in wardrobes with plenty of room for suitcases and unpacked clothes. Twin reading lamps built into the headboard, garden view, warm wood floor. The bedside lamps have USB-A and USB-C charging built in, so phones charge where you sleep.

Main double bedroom at Barra Woodview — queen bed with both built-in wardrobes

Main double bedroom at Barra Woodview — headboard with built-in reading lamps

Main double bedroom at Barra Woodview — window with garden view and wardrobes

Double Bedroom 2

A softly-lit second double looking onto the garden. A queen bed with a wide headboard shelf and warm bedside lamps, a traditional cottage dresser with plenty of drawer space, and wooden floors throughout. The bedside lamps have USB-A and USB-C charging built in, so phones charge where you sleep.

Double Bedroom 2 at Barra Woodview — queen bed by the window with a cottage dresser

Double Bedroom 2 at Barra Woodview — angled view of the bed and headboard shelf

Triple Room

A triple room with a solid pine bunk bed and a separate single alongside, sleeping three. Bright, straightforward and made for kids or friends travelling together — wooden flooring throughout, a window looking out to the back garden and Heaval, and the same bedside lamps as the other rooms, with USB-A and USB-C charging built in. A double wardrobe and a single wardrobe give plenty of storage, with room to hang clothes and stow suitcases.

Triple room at Barra Woodview — pine bunk bed with a single bed alongside

Triple room at Barra Woodview — the pine bunk bed

Triple room at Barra Woodview — the full single bed and garden-side window

Single Room

A bright, simple single room — ideal for a solo traveller or as extra space when the group needs to spread out. Wooden flooring throughout and the same USB-A/USB-C bedside charging as the other rooms.

Single room at Barra Woodview

Spacious Living Room

A large corner suite, two armchairs and two footstools gives everyone somewhere to sit. The open fireplace is the heart of the room, and a large window looks out over the wood to the Minch beyond with a 65” OLED 4K HDR Smart TV for the big movie night together.

The living room fireplace at Barra Woodview

Kitchen

A well-equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, coffee machine, microwave, air fryer, toaster and kettle.

The kitchen at Barra Woodview

Dining Room

Enjoy your meals looking out to the Minch through the wood, or onto the rowan tree and the croft in front of the house.

The dining room at Barra Woodview

Utility Room

A separate utility room with a washing machine and 8kg Beko tumble dryer.

The utility room at Barra Woodview

Main Shower Room

A modern shower room, recently refitted. Generous walk-in shower with a 1500 × 800mm tray — plenty of room to move — powered by a Mira Sport Max Airboost 10.8kW dual-head electric shower for strong pressure and instant hot water. Wide white basin over a black vanity with drawer storage, and an LED-lit mirror cabinet above.

The walk-in shower at Barra Woodview — black-framed glass screen with rainfall and handheld heads

White basin on a black vanity unit with an LED-lit mirror cabinet above

Porch Shower Room

A second, more compact shower room off the porch — WC, pedestal basin and a standard 6kW electric shower. Useful when the main shower’s in use, or when someone just doesn’t want to wait.

Porch shower room at Barra Woodview — WC and pedestal basin

Pet-friendly, with room to roam

Barra Woodview is dog-friendly — and dogs do well here. The croft in front of the house is fully fenced, ideal for a morning run and a stretch of the legs before breakfast. In the lower corner you’ll find a wooden bench — a fine spot to sit and listen to the birdsong, look up to Heaval or out to the Minch, while your dog runs free and has a good sniff about.

Behind the house, the upper croft is fenced too. In 2021 and 2022 we planted over 4,000 native saplings there — alder, downy birch, eared willow, sessile oak and rowan — still small, but growing year by year. Your dog can roam free among them while you can get the chance to take in a breathtaking sunrise.

And when you fancy going further afield, Barra is full of dog walks — beaches, hill paths and machair — none more than fifteen or twenty minutes from the door.

One of the family dogs at the window at Barra Woodview

Aerial view of Barra Woodview and its fully fenced croft

The wooden bench in the lower croft, looking out over the water

The croft bench with an open view across the island

Sunrise over the fenced upper croft at Barra Woodview

Machair wildflowers and croft houses below the hills on Barra — an evening dog walk near Woodview

Everything you need for a self-catering stay

Fast Starlink broadband for when you need it, a collection of popular books to get absorbed in and board games for some family fun, off-road parking for three cars and we provide all linen, towels and firewood, so you can travel light.