Each bedroom has a super king-size bed, which can be separated into two single beds if you tell us in advance.

The rooms are big enough to be used as sitting rooms, and have armchairs in which you will be happy to watch television or one of the DVD films from our library, or merely read a book, perhaps with the French windows open or out on the deck as the sun pours in. Whatever you choose, the sound of the river rippling by will be a feature of your stay with us.

Internet broadband access is available either hand-wired or wirelessly.

You will of course be most welcome to explore our one-and-a-half-acre garden with its ancient oak trees all hung about with the lichen which gives our house its name. This lichen, Pseudocyphellaria norvegica, is rare in Britain and indeed worldwide, having been polluted almost out of existence. It remains common in Argyll because of the purity of the air and the right mix of host broadleaved trees.

Just across the river is the Caledonian Forest Reserve, with its oak trees so old that moss, ferns and wild honeysuckle grow on the trunks and branches. Wild red deer, pine martens, otters and many other kinds of fauna abound. The neighbouring farmer farms red deer and North American bison within a few hundred yards of Lichen Burn.