Nestled in the heart of historic Gartness, The Snug sits in a row of 18th-century stone cottages, once home to workers of the woollen blanket mill built in 1745. The sandstone came from just up the riverbank, and remnants of the old mill, wheelhouse, and dam still shape the landscape.

The Hideaway’s garden rests above the original water channel that powered the mill, where salmon and sea trout once swam upstream to spawn. The allotments behind the cottages fed generations of families, while the grander house at the end was home to the mill manager.

After the mill closed around WWII, it lay abandoned until the 1980s, when it was lovingly restored into a home by a Glaswegian woman and a Polish builder named Charlie from nearby Balfron.

Even today, Gartness keeps its charm—a quiet hamlet with the famous Pots of Gartness salmon leap just a short stroll away, where in autumn, silver fish leap upstream in one of nature’s most ancient rituals.

And yes, if you're lucky, you might still hear stories of Bob the gamekeeper, who once lived nearby—leaving fresh salmon on doorsteps and trapping pheasants with trails of seed.