St Clair Cottage - Self Catering Accommodation in Westray
This is an interim web page for St Clair Cottage Cottage, Pierowall. as the cottage is now ready and people are asking to stay. We will work on the final touches of the bath house with the sea water hot tub, between bookings and as the weather makes it possible.
We have the restored the cottage based on "What would Emma like?"
Emma was a teacher who had her final years in Kalisgarth Care Centre (the Westray Care Home) Her memory was alternative and she became a very good friend. She knew firmly what she liked.
People seem to like how the cottage has turned out, so we think Emma would approve.
Facilities -
- Even though it is in the centre of the village, it is set down by the shore and is remarkably quiet
- A view through the window from wheelchair height, when it is high tide it feels like being in a boat
- Shower chair and some disabled equipment in wet room
- Washing machine
- Two excellent general stores, one has a new café Groatie Buckies, definitely worth a visit. When I checked in the summer it was easy for a wheel chair, five minutes' walk the other way. They will deliver groceries.
- Brilliant playpark across the road
- Swimming pool, with disabled hoist, across the road at the school
- large television
- Wood burning stove and wood
- Chair height microwave
- New steps to the shore
- Some raised flower beds
- Underfloor heating
- double bed
- 4ft bed + a really comfortable "Carp Bed"
- Not really facilities but tides coming, going and changing big skies to watch + plenty of birds, seals and sometimes otters
- Potential for Crossroads care
- Wi-fi available through Cloud Net
- Amazon Echo Dot connected to Alexa voice service
- Parking for four cars
- Drive access to front door
- Swimming pool available for private hire - I believe it is £25 per hour including life guards.
"It occurred to me that you have managed to do something very clever - to make the place accessible, for folk who need it to be, but not to make it feel at all clinical, so a couple, or even two couples, with no access issues could feel as comfy as they would in any good self-catering cottage. Which of course is good for the general message - making life better for disabled folk does not mean taking anything away from able-bodied folk - we are, after all, the same but different!"
