Croft House kitchen at Mint Croft, Skye, a traditional Higland cottage. Wooden green-painted kitchen with wooden worktop, framed artwork, pans and cookware. Antique wooden corner cupboard mounted on the wall.

Explore The Croft House

Painted white and situated behind a lush herb garden, this holiday cottage in Skye welcomes you into a spacious hallway decorated with hand-painted local scallop shells and a 19th century oak box settle.

Croft House entrance hall at Geary, Skye, Scotland. Soft sage green walls with an antique wooden settle, tongue and groove with pegs for coats, scallop shelves on wall. Leading through to sitting room with exposed stone wall.
White tongue and groove panelling with coat pegs in the hall at Mint Croft's croft house cottage. Above, on sage green walls scallop shells are mounted.

Cosy, yet comfortably large enough for a group of up to four adults, each room offers perfectly framed views across Loch Snizort towards Trotternish and the isles of Lewis and Harris or across the heather and wild grasses of the surrounding croft land.

The kitchen table at Mint Croft's Croft House cottage. A wooden table and chairs by the exposed stone chimney brest and fireplace. At Geary, Skye, Highlands, Scotland.

On the ground floor, an open-plan kitchen and dining area features a large farmhouse dining table while the kitchen is equipped to a level capable of satisfying even the most ambitious home cooks.

In the kitchen at a traditional stone cottage in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Exposed stone chimney breast, wooden kitchen table and chairs, contemporary wooden kitchen Cooker with induction hob in the hand made deVol kitchen at Mint Croft, Skye.
 

Off the hall is an understairs WC, and to the right lies the living room featuring a large wooden coffee table perfect for board games and a wood burning stove, surrounded by handmade duck feather sofas.

In the Croft House sitting room at Mint Croft Skye. Exposed stone wall with woodburning stove, wood store, comforable sofa and chairs, wooden coffee table. Library area of the sitting room in the Croft House cottage at Mint Croft, Skye. Genrous bookshelves, wooden chest, easy wooden chair
 

Upstairs in this self catering cottage are two large super-king bedrooms (one of which can be set up as a twin room) with high ceilings and exposed Douglas fir beams.

Croft House bedroom at Mint Croft, Isle of Skye. A large bed with upholstered headboard in floral fabric, crisp bedlinen. An open hearth with expose stone. Exposed wooden roof trusses
Bedroom with exposed stone walls in the traditional Highland Croft House cottage at Mint Croft Skye, Scotland. A large double bed with wicker headboard and a contemporary Caithness chair by Lawrence Veitch.

The Fired Earth bathroom features a spacious bath with a rain shower, while window seats in the three sea-facing dormers offer the perfect spot to enjoy the panoramic views.

Spacious bathroom with fired earth metro tiles in grey and green. Large bath, WC, sink.
Double ended bath in cottage bathroom with grey and green metro tiles by Fired Earth
It's a labour of love created by a couple of designers turned modern-day crofters. You'll want to hole up here and never leave.

The Telegraph

Upstairs inside a traditional Hebridean Croft House. A view through from one bedroom across a landing and into another bedroom with exposed stone wall.

Your Skye self-catering cottage stay includes

  • Panoramic sea and island views from every window

  • Antique and rare furniture, artwork and textiles

  • Private garden with picnic bench and XL Big Green Egg barbecue

  • OS maps and local guides

  • A range of fiction and non-fiction books

  • Board games and puzzles

TECH

  • High speed unlimited fibre broadband

  • Marshall Bluetooth speaker

  • Flatscreen TV with complimentary Netflix and BBC iPlayer

  • Type-2 electric vehicle charging point (shared with The Blackhouse, subject to additional charges)

KITCHEN, BATHROOM & UTILITIES

  • deVOL hand-crafted kitchen – fully equipped, including dishwasher

  • Fired Earth bathroom – rain-shower & large bath

  • Towels and bathrobes

  • Laundry washing machine

  • Ironing board, iron and clothes drying rack

  • Organic Scottish toiletries

LIVING ROOM

  • Wood burning stove

  • Large sofa and two armchairs – handmade with luxury upholstery and duck feather filling

  • Rare Danish-designed wooden rocking chair

BEDROOMS

  • Super-king size beds with custom headboards

  • High thread count 100% Egyptian cotton white bed linen

  • Down duvets and pillows

  • Hairdryers

Croft House Floorplan

Floorplan

Accommodation in The Croft House is arranged over two floors.

View plan (.pdf)
Oxeye daisies and a view of the sea from the cottage garden at Mint Croft, Skye. The Croft House at Mint Croft Skye, a traditional Scottish Highlands cottage. Whitewashed stone with two storeys, three dormer windows and a pitched slate roof.
 

Interiors & Furnishings

As designers, James & Carolina have worked together to curate this holiday cottage in Skye in which they have included carefully selected statement pieces from Kenya – where they also live – to offset the many locally-made furnishings throughout its interior.

On the landing with a view of the sea at Mint Croft, Skye. Tongue and groove panelling, antique wooden windsor chair.

A hard-carved African mask is set above an antique yew-wood hoop-backed chair on the upstairs landing, while the next-door bedroom features a bronze giraffe – commissioned specially from a sculptor in Kenya.

A croft house bedroom with exposed stone wall at the gable end and an open hearth. Luxury furnishings including a king size bed, vintage chest of drawers and Caithness chair in dark wood by Lawrence Veitch.

Art, design and craft in The Croft House

Inside, The Croft House cottage features the work of local artisans in Skye and from across Scotland, alongside selected pieces by international designers and makers that feel at home here.

Rounded ceramic flask in encrusted brown glaze by Skye artist Patricia Shone.
'Forest' vase by Skye-based Patricia Shone.
Contemporary, ladder-backed Caithness-style chair by Lawrence Veitch
Caithness chair by Laurence Veitch.

We are especially delighted to celebrate Skye’s own unique tradition of storytelling in a painting titled “Folklore of Skye” by famous Scottish artist, Rosemary Beaton, commissioned specially for Mint Croft, which depicts the island’s rich folk stories, myths and legends.

In the painting you can spot selkies that can shape-shift between human and seal form, a Norwegian princess called “Saucy Mary” who was married to a local MacKinnon clan chief and would exact a toll on passing ships, and many other mythical and real creatures including a water horse, Scottish wildcat, puffins, eagles, deer, and faeries.

Find out more about local makers, artists and craftspeople to visit during your stay in Skye.

Folkore of Skye - a painting by Scottish artist Rosemary Beaton above a green upholstered sofa in the sitting room at Croft House cottage, Skye.
'Folklore of Skye' painting by Rosemary Beaton takes centre stage in The Croft House living room.
Inside the front door at the Croft House cottage. A glazed wooden door, painted white in a hall with soft sage green walls. Wellies and a can by the door.

How to book

Check availability with our calendar and book using our secure online booking system.

Book now