The house is beautiful and set in great grounds; it's also spotlessly clean. Elspeth wasn't around, but she got her friend Loretta to let us in. Loretta was very kind and patient and waited for us after we got delayed due to the floods

The only reason I haven't given it 5 stars is because it's not the best place if heating is important to you and you're travelling in the winter. We were travelling with a toddler and somebody visiting from the tropics, and unfortunately, the heating wasn't as good as it might have been for December. But I suspect it was due to a misconfiguration in the storage heaters that may not have happened if Elspeth were around.