Bring everyone. Take the whole house.

Sleeps up to 18 | 7 bedrooms | Private cinema | Snooker room | Lochside | Fishing | Kayaks

Some trips are too important to split everyone between different cottages.

Overscaig House gives your whole group one enormous Highland home on the shores of Loch Shin — with seven bedrooms, generous shared spaces, a private cinema, snooker room and the loch waiting just outside.

Whether you're planning a family reunion, milestone birthday, anniversary, multi-generational holiday or long-overdue trip with friends, this is somewhere everyone can actually be together.

18 people. One house.

Planning a holiday for a large family or group usually starts with the same problem.

Where do you put everyone?

At Overscaig House, you don't have to divide the family between several properties, coordinate different kitchens or drive backwards and forwards every evening.

You get the whole house.

Seven bedrooms.

Large social spaces.

Room to eat together.

Room to spread out.

And enough to do that nobody needs entertaining every minute of the day.

Overscaig is particularly well suited to:

• Extended family holidays
• Multi-generational gatherings
• Milestone birthdays
• Anniversaries
• Family reunions
• Groups of friends
• Fishing trips
• Outdoor holidays
• Special occasions
• Highland getaways where everyone wants to stay together

A former Highland fishing hotel — all to yourselves

Overscaig House wasn't designed as a modern holiday cottage.

For generations it welcomed visitors and anglers as a Highland fishing hotel on the shores of Loch Shin.

Today, instead of sharing it with other hotel guests, your group gets the entire place.

That history is part of what makes Overscaig different.

The rooms are generous.

The communal spaces are genuinely communal.

And the house feels like somewhere designed for people to gather rather than a normal family home with extra beds squeezed into every available corner.

Bring the grandparents.

Bring the children.

Bring the cousins.

Bring your oldest friends.

There's room.

Seven bedrooms. Space for up to 18 guests.

Large group accommodation only works when people can actually be comfortable.

Overscaig House sleeps up to 18 guests across seven bedrooms, giving families and groups flexibility without sacrificing the shared spaces that make the holiday memorable.

It's particularly useful for multi-generational groups where different parts of the family want to be together but still appreciate having their own space at the end of the day.

The room everyone ends up in

A big group holiday revolves around the moments everyone shares.

Long breakfasts.

Huge dinners.

Birthday cakes.

Board games.

Arguments about who's washing up.

Stories that somehow get funnier every time they're told.

Overscaig has the space for everyone to actually sit, eat and spend time together rather than scattering around several smaller properties.

And when dinner is finished, the evening doesn't have to end.

Your own private cinema

When the Highland weather comes in — or everyone simply wants a quiet evening — head to the cinema.

Pick a film.

Bring the snacks.

Turn the lights down.

And try to agree on something eighteen people actually want to watch.

For families with children in particular, having entertainment inside the house can make the difference between a relaxing holiday and spending every wet afternoon trying to invent another excursion.

The snooker room

Some traditions start surprisingly quickly.

One game becomes a tournament.

A tournament becomes a scoreboard.

And suddenly someone is insisting there needs to be a trophy.

Our snooker room gives the adults, teenagers and competitive members of the family somewhere to disappear for an hour — or considerably longer.

Cinema for one half of the group.

Snooker for the other.

Peace for everyone else.

The loch is outside

At Overscaig, Loch Shin isn't something you visit.

You're staying beside it.

Step outside and you're on the shores of one of Sutherland's great Highland lochs.

Guests can use our kayaks to get out onto the water, while Overscaig also has its own fishing rights.

Fish in the morning.

Kayak in the afternoon.

Sit beside the water in the evening.

Or do absolutely nothing and watch the weather move across the loch.

This is the sort of place where some of the best days are the ones when nobody gets back in the car.

Fishing at Overscaig

Overscaig's history is closely connected to fishing, and guests staying at the House can enjoy our fishing rights on Loch Shin.

For experienced anglers, it offers the rare luxury of staying beside the water you're coming to fish.

For families, it can be something completely different to try during the holiday.

No early drive.

No complicated expedition.

Just pick up the rods and head outside.

Kayaking on Loch Shin

When conditions allow, guests can make use of our kayaks and experience Loch Shin from the water.

It's one of the simplest ways to understand how remote Overscaig really is.

Paddle out.

Turn around.

And look back at the house sitting beside the loch with the Highlands stretching away behind it.

Made for families

We think the best large family holidays aren't the ones packed with scheduled entertainment.

They're the ones where everyone has enough freedom to do something different — while still being together.

At Overscaig:

Some can kayak.

Some can fish.

Some can play snooker.

Some can watch a film.

Some can head out exploring.

Some can simply sit overlooking the loch.

Then everyone comes back together for dinner.

That's what the house is really designed for.

Celebrating something?

Overscaig House works particularly well for the occasions when getting everyone together matters.

Big birthdays

Instead of a restaurant table for three hours, turn the birthday into a weekend or a week together.

Anniversaries

Bring children, grandchildren and friends somewhere everyone can share.

Family reunions

One property means breakfast, dinner and evenings together rather than everyone disappearing to different accommodation.

Friends' gatherings

For the group that has been saying “we should all go away together” for the last five years.

This might finally be the place.

When you want to explore

You could easily spend several days without going very far from Overscaig.

But when you do venture out, you're surrounded by some of the most spectacular countryside in northern Scotland.

Overscaig is well placed for exploring Sutherland, the northern Highlands and the NC500, with dramatic coastlines, beaches, waterfalls, mountains, villages and wildlife all within reach.

Use Overscaig as your base rather than packing the car and changing accommodation every night.

Explore during the day.

Come home in the evening.

Pour a drink.

Light the fire.

Start another snooker tournament.

Close to the NC500. Far from the crowds.

The North Coast 500 has introduced thousands of people to northern Scotland.

Overscaig gives you a different way of experiencing it.

Rather than racing around the entire route and staying somewhere new every night, you can make the House your Highland base and explore different parts of the region at your own pace.

Then return each evening to the same beds, the same kitchen and your own place beside Loch Shin.

For families and larger groups, that's often a much easier holiday.

Remote — deliberately

Overscaig isn't surrounded by cafés, shops and nightlife.

That's rather the point.

You're coming here for:

space

water

mountains

wildlife

dark skies

quiet

and the feeling of having escaped somewhere genuinely different.

We provide detailed information before your stay about where to shop, fuel stops, places to eat and what to bring, so you can arrive prepared and enjoy being away from it all.

What if it rains?

You're in the Scottish Highlands.

It's a possibility.

Luckily, Overscaig isn't the sort of holiday house where a wet day means eighteen people staring at each other in one living room.

You've got:

The cinema

The snooker room

Large communal spaces

Games and family time

A kitchen made for big meals

And one of the best places to watch Highland weather is from inside a warm house looking across the loch.

Why book Overscaig House?

Because large group holidays shouldn't feel like a logistical exercise.

At Overscaig you get:

• The whole property for your group
• Accommodation for up to 18 guests
• Seven bedrooms
• Large shared spaces
• Private cinema
• Snooker room
• Direct access to Loch Shin
• Fishing rights
• Kayaks
• Incredible Highland scenery
• Easy access to Sutherland and the NC500
• Space for different generations to holiday together
• A property with genuine history and character

Most importantly:

everyone gets to stay together.

Want even more space?

Our separate self-contained Annexe sits alongside the House and sleeps up to four additional guests.

It can be especially useful for multi-generational groups, grandparents, another couple or anyone who would appreciate having a little extra privacy while still holidaying with the group.

Book Overscaig House direct

Ready to bring everyone together?

Check availability and book directly with us at Overscaig House.

Overscaig House

Loch Shin · Sutherland · Scottish Highlands

Sleeps up to 18 · 7 bedrooms · Cinema · Snooker · Fishing · Kayaks · Lochside