Croys House

Look out for our feature in the February 2010 edition of ‘Homes and Gardens’ magazine!


	Bridge of Urr, Castle Douglas, Scotland


	Welcome to Croys!

Croys is an elegant Georgian House dating from the 18th century, and was featured in the November 2004 issue of 'Period House’ magazine, and also in ‘Scotland on Sunday'. The house is part Georgian and part Victorian, and is situated in an elevated position in the Urr Valley in the Dumfries and Galloway region of south west Scotland.

Run by Pat and Alan Withall, the property is bounded on the southern side by the River Urr. Through time they intend to open the river, which was fished in days gone by, but hasn’t been touched for several years. It is known that the upper reaches yield salmon as well as sea trout and brown trout.




		The gardens are an especially wonderful aspect to this house, sporting walls festooned with wisteria, clematis, Virginia creeper and honeysuckle. During the spring and early summer the grounds are carpeted with snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells and the various seating areas will tempt guests to spend many leisurely hours relaxing in this tranquil and most beautiful location. There is a purpose built brick barbeque tastefully sited to the front of the house with seating for outside meals.


	The house lies in 35 acres of parkland and gardens and has a well established topiary and walled garden, where fresh fruit and vegetables are grown. Pat is an excellent cook, and uses produce from the gardens to provide a fine breakfast, and exquisite evening meal if required. Vegetarian meals are available on request.

Pat and Alan also rear rare breeds of sheep, cattle and pigs including Belted Galloway cows and Icelandic, Shetland, Jacob, Castlemilk Morit and Ryland sheep. Pedigree Tamworth pigs are special treasures. They also use Norwegian Fiord horses and a Dales pony for carriage driving.

Croys is ideally positioned, being just off the main Euroroute to the Irish ferry and yet in a peaceful contryside location untroubled by traffic noise. Castle Douglas, Scotland's food town, is only 3 miles away, and the famous Threave Gardens are also close. Nearby Loch Ken offers a varied range of watersports and fishing, and the new ‘7Stanes’ cycle trails are only a short distance away. And for the golfers, Southerness golf course is only 30 minutes away.


	Croys House, Bridge of Urr, Castle Douglas DG7 3EX Tel: +44 (0)1556 650237 • Fax: +44 (0)1556 650746 • Email: AlanWithall@aol.com


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