Our lovely new, light-filled suite (room 11) is on the first floor of the old stable block. It has its own little balcony where guests can sit and enjoy distant views of the river Ore, the Ness and the North Sea beyond. It’s important to say this is a real suite, with a separate sitting area, and perfect for a celebration, honeymoon, or just plain self-indulgence.

Access is from the ground floor, up a private staircase and into the sitting room. The separate loo and bathroom are off a wide corridor that leads to the bedroom. As well as the swish walk-in shower, the bathroom also sports a full-length Happy D bath and sinuous Bisque chrome towelling radiators. (The suite has sloping ceilings but has been designed to ensure normal activities are not compromised: however anyone over 6' 2" may occasionally need to take head-ducking precautions!)

All the fabrics are Osborne and Little (as well as some gorgeous, lacquered side tables designed by John Reeves), and the flooring is a mixture of Brinton’s carpet in the bedroom and sitting room, and Amtico in the loo and bathroom. Most of the furniture is from Graham and Green but the bed, designed by Antonio Cittorio, is from B&B Italia, as is the groovy gold coffee table. Both the bedroom and the sitting room have Sony digital televisions with DVD.