A small and beautifully-situated Shetland hotel has been rated the best in Scotland in the 2018 edition of the Good Hotel Guide. Burrastow House has always had an excellent reputation and local people and visitors who’ve stayed there will feel that national recognition is thoroughly deserved.
The house lies in Shetland’s west mainland, an area dominated by moorland but with splashes of green, fertile meadow and dozens of lochs, enclosed by a varied and often dramatic coastline. It was built for the Henry family in 1759 and in its original form was typical of the many so-called ‘haa’ houses built by Shetland lairds.
It was extended and altered, first by a Yorkshire mill owner who bought it early in the last century. In 1980, it became a guest house under the ownership of Harry and Stella Tuckey and was subsequently owned by Bo Simmons and Ann Prior. Bo and her husband Henry Anderton extended it again in the 1990s. It was bought in 2004 by Pierre Dupont, who – like his predecessors – has continued to renovate the building with great sensitivity to its historic character.
