The rest of the building dates back to the eighteenth century. Now adapted to provide a high standard of comfort with modern kitchens and equipment, great care has been taken to preserve the character and peace of a bygone age. It offers a great variety of attractions to the holiday maker. It has small compass, it contains lovely sandy bays, magnificent caves, a quiet atmosphere of village and farm and a colour harmony of lochs and heather, woods and fields, from which the eye can turn either to a panorama of distant hills and islets or the ever-changing prospect of the boundless ocean. Islay provides a number of well-stocked lochs and rivers where trout and salmon fishing is available either from boat or bank.
Sea fishing abounds round the coast.
On Islay are some 150 miles of good motoring roads making the most of the island readily accessible to the visitor. There is an excellent natural Golf course. Endless beaches of soft silver sand are constantly washed by Atlantic breakers. To the ornithologist, the naturalist, the photographer and the artist, the island is an endless joy. A wealth of archaeological subjects remain, and above all, the natural beauty of mountain, glen, bay and headland are unspoiled and tranquil.