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A reading chair with a linen throw at a wide window, binoculars on a side table and dune grass running down to the sea

Slow afternoons where the dunes end

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Harbour House is a dark timber house in the dunes at the quiet end of a sheltered bay, with glass to the water. There are two guest rooms, a sitting room with a wood stove and a long breakfast table. Stay a few nights and let the days go slowly.

A low dark timber house end on, on its dune under a silver overcast sky, a railed deck along its side and dune grass below

Up to four guests share the sitting room, the garden and the long table.

About the house

Rooms

Two rooms,
one quiet house

Each room has a queen bed and its own bathroom: the Ocean Room in glass and timber over the dunes, the Garden Room in pale timber among the trees, with a door to its own deck. Breakfast is shared at the long table.

The coast

A coast to walk to,
not to drive to

A rowing boat on its lines in a still inlet beside a dry stone harbour wall, gorse and low hills in a sea fog

The harbour,
three minutes away

Rowing boats lie on their lines by the old stone harbour wall, on water that stays calm when the wind turns. Go early, while the mist is still on the water, or late, when the low sun warms the stone.

Walk to the harbour
Granite stacks and white surf below a slope of tussock on the headland, the sea grey in a soft haze

The headland,
twenty minutes uphill

The path leaves the far end of the beach and climbs through tussock and low heath to a bench with long views down the coast. It is an easy walk. Take a jumper.

Walk the headland path

Your stay

Every stay here is unhurried: robes and towels laid out in your room, a map of the walks by the door, and somewhere quiet to come back to when the light goes.

A white waffle robe on a hook against a warm plaster wall in soft side light
A white stoneware vase on a deep window sill in soft light, a grey linen curtain tied back beside it

Breakfast, linen, beach towels, parking and wifi are all part of the stay.

What a stay includes

The house

Sheer linen,
wide glass

A linen daybed and a round timber table by sheer curtained glass doors open to a deck and the sea, in low gold sun

Sheer linen hangs at wide glass doors to the deck, over dark timber boards. The sitting room has a wall of glass onto the cove and a small wood stove for cool nights.

See the house