• The downstairs holiday cottage is the original cottage and has an ensuitebedroom as well as a bathroom (Sleeps up to 6 people). It is totally self-contained with its own entry door.
• The upstairs holiday cottage comprises of part of the original Old Dairy Cottage (1709) but also has a large extension to the rear where the entry door is. (Upstairs also sleeps up to 6 people). Click here to see the upstairs floor plan and here for the downstairs floor plan.
• The upstairs and downstairs holiday cottages can be made into one very large house and can sleep up to 12 people. Both holiday cottages are very spacious, very well equipped,very comfortable and warm.
• Auchterarder is based in the Heart of Scotland and is perfect holiday location for touring and also has many golf courses within 10 minutes drive.

Shopping in Auchterarder and Blackford

Auchterarder has many great individual shops and many people come from the big cities to shop in Auchterarder and Blackford Perthshire.  We have no parking charges and you can shop at a leisurely pace

History of the Old Dairy Cottage

The Old Dairy Cottage dates back to 1709. The year in which Samuel Johnson was born, just two years after the Act of Union and six years before the uprising led by the Old Pretender, This historical building is situated in the Royal Burgh of Auchterarder a very attractive town in the Perthshire countryside close to the world famous Gleneagles Hotel

Our family have owned the cottage for many years, firstly in the 1920's when Norman's grandmother lived here and had a small croft with a few milk cows, hens and pigs. She sold milk in cans around the doors to her neighbours and was famous for her ice-cream which was made on the premises up until the 1940's. Many people came from near and far to sample Duncan's ice-cream.

In the 1940's Norman's father who came from Rothiemay, near Huntly in the North East of Scotland, married his mother then Janet Duncan and carried on the family croft later buying a larger milk business and expanded considerably delivering milk in glass bottles in Auchterarder, Gleneagles and surrounding areas.

Norman was brought up at The Old Dairy Cottage and carried on the family business until 1996 when the milk round was sold.

In 1994 we totally renovated the cottage into two cottages and since then have welcomed guests from all over the world. Norman and Hazel live beside the cottages in The Old Dairy Yard and have three grown up daughters, who have all flown the nest.

When you stay at Morrison's Holiday Homes you can be assured of our personal attention at all times. We do our very best to make sure that our guests enjoy their visit to Perthshire.

Elcho Castle (approx 20minutes drive from Morrisons Holiday Homes) - well worth a vist.

Elcho has been in the ownership of the Wemyss family for five and a half centuries, if not longer. It was part of the possessions confirmed to Sir John Wemyss of Wemyss by James III in 1468, and is still owned by the earls of Wemyss. The date when the present castle began to be built is uncertain, though it was probably in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. We know that the lands were confirmed to Sir John Wemyss in 1552, and this may have been a way of ensuring that his title to it was sound before he started a major campaign of rebuilding. He was certainly able to sign a charter at Elcho in 1558, though that does not necessarily mean that the new house was complete, since there must already have been a house on the site before the one we now see. However, there is a record that in 1570 the laird of Wemyss owed the late Thomas Bryson or Boynting the sum of £7 for ironwork, and it is tempting to suspect that this was for the wrought iron grilles or yetts at the windows and main doorway, and that the main work was complete by then.