Badanfhuarain Cottage

Other names, translation

Gaelic name, meaning spring copse (badan = copse) (fuaran= well or spring) (fuar = cold)

Construction date

The cottage dates from 1900, possibly earlier.

Building uses

It was fully restored in 1995 and is now 4 star graded self catering accommodation disabled category 2.

It sits next to the new family home in 3 acres of pines, grassland, heather and duck ponds.

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Owners/occupiers

For thirty five years it was the home of the McGillivray family where the head of the family was a master builder and joiner.

Valery Fleming of The Dell of Abernethy married David Dean in 1974 and the cottage became their first home together.