Knockinaam Lodge

Knockinaam Lodge was built in 1869 as a hunting lodge for the Hunter-Blair family and now operates as a ten-bedroom country house hotel in its own private cove near Portpatrick. The restaurant holds three AA rosettes and serves a daily-changing seven-course dinner menu alongside lunch and afternoon tea, open to non-residents by reservation. Thirty acres of grounds run down to a private beach, and the house carries a well-documented history, including a wartime meeting between Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower during preparations for D-Day. Two self-catering cottages sit within the grounds. The hotel is independently owned and takes bookings directly rather than through a wider hotel group, with its AA five-star rating held solely for this property.