Northmoor LodgeCourtyard
Keeper's Room
On the ground floor off the cobbled yard, with a deep window seat and a door you can leave open on the two warm weeks of the year.
Stone walls, peat smoke and a casino floor
Northmoor began as a shooting lodge at the head of a long glen. It is now a casino resort with twenty-four rooms, a smokehouse kitchen, a whisky bar that keeps the fire lit from October, and the Stagroom casino floor in the old gun hall.
18+The casino floor is for adults aged 18 and over · photo ID checked on every visit
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The lodge
A house built to keep weather out
Three feet of granite, small windows on the north face, and a hall wide enough to dry four sets of boots at once.
The original lodge went up in 1871 for a family who came north twice a year and left the house shuttered the rest of the time. It changed hands often, lost its roof in a storm, and sat empty for most of a decade before the current owners took it on and spent four winters putting it right.
What they kept: the granite, the stag-horn chandelier in the hall, the flagstone floors and the smell of peat that gets into everything. What they added: proper insulation, twenty-four rooms with working radiators, a kitchen that smokes its own fish, and a casino floor where the gun hall used to be.
The pace here is set by the weather and by dinner. People walk, read, sit in the sauna house, and come down at seven when the bar lights up. The Stagroom opens at the same hour, and some nights it is the busiest room in the building.
Everything happens here, in the lodge, in person. There is nothing to play on this website and nothing to pay for on it.
The short version
- Twenty-four rooms, none of them identical
- The Stagroom casino floor, adults 18+
- Smokehouse kitchen and a peat-fired whisky bar
- Cedar sauna house and a cold plunge
- Something on every evening of the week
- Reception staffed through the night
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Rooms
Four kinds of room, all of them warm
Wool blankets, a kettle with proper tea, a torch by the door for walking back from the sauna. Sizes are approximate.
Glen view
Glen Room
First floor, facing straight down the glen. On a clear night you can see the lights of nothing at all, which is the point.
Corner suite
Falconer's Suite
Two rooms in the south-west corner, a working fireplace that the staff lay each afternoon, and a bath under the window.
Separate cottage
Gamekeeper's Cottage
A stone cottage sixty paces behind the lodge: two bedrooms, a wood stove, a kitchen table and a drying room for everything you wore outside.
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The Stagroom · 18+
The casino floor in the old gun hall
Five tables, a card room behind the panelling and a casino bar that pours the same whisky as everywhere else in the building.
What is on the floor
Small, warm, and no one minds if you only watch
The Stagroom is a land-based casino room inside the lodge. It seats fewer than sixty people on a full night, which means the dealers have time to explain a game properly instead of waving you to a seat.
Most guests who have never played start on a Wednesday, when a host runs a slow table for beginners and nobody is expected to stake anything at all. The rest of the week it runs on its own rhythm, quiet early and busy after ten.
To be clear about what this website is: it describes a casino room inside a hotel. It carries no online casino games, takes no bets and processes no payments.
- Roulette
- Blackjack
- Three card poker
- Private card room
- Casino bar
- Hosts on every shift
Rules of the room
- Adults aged 18 and over only, or older where the local minimum age is higher.
- Photo ID at the door, every visit, whatever your age looks like.
- Agree a limit with a host before you sit down and they will hold you to it.
- Ask for a break or a self-exclusion at reception; it stays confidential.
- No credit, no cash machine on the floor, no tabs run against the casino.
- Boots off the furniture. Otherwise, dress as you like.
Open every evening, 19:00 until 02:00
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Kitchen & bar
Smoke, bread and a very long whisky list
The smokehouse runs most mornings. What comes out of it decides half the menu.
Dinner
18:30 – 21:30
The Smokehouse
Hot-smoked trout, mutton cooked for nine hours, root vegetables from the walled garden and bread baked at four in the afternoon.
Breakfast & lunch
07:30 – 15:00
The Long Hall
Porridge, eggs and black pudding until ten, then soup, sandwiches and whatever the kitchen has left over from the night before.
Whisky bar
16:00 – 01:00
The Peat Room
Ninety-odd bottles, a fire from October to April, and a bartender who will talk you out of the expensive one if a cheaper one suits you better. A full list of drinks without alcohol too.
Coffee & baking
06:30 – 12:00
The Dairy
A counter in the old dairy for oatcakes, shortbread and flasks of coffee to take up the hill. Opens before anything else does.
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The week
Seven evenings, each with its own shape
Open to guests and to visitors. Two of them fill up, so ask at the desk if you want a seat.
Map and a dram
Someone from the estate spreads out the walking maps and marks the routes that are passable this week.
Fiddle night
Two or three players in the corner of the Peat Room, no amplification, no set list.
First night at the tables
A casino host runs a slow table and teaches roulette and blackjack from scratch. No stake expected. Adults 18+ only.
Whisky flight
Five drams poured blind, with the bartender explaining each one once everyone has guessed badly.
Smokehouse table
One long table, one menu, whatever came out of the smokehouse that morning.
Ceilidh in the hall
A caller, a band and no requirement whatsoever to know the steps.
Fireside reading
A writer or a local historian talks for forty minutes, then the bar stays quiet for anyone who wants to keep reading.
In deep winter the programme thins out and the fire gets more use. Reception always has the current week.
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Sauna house
Hot cedar, cold burn water
How it works
Sixty paces from the back door
The sauna house is a timber building beside the burn, built by a joiner from the next glen. Inside there is a cedar room hot enough to be taken seriously, a cold plunge fed straight from the water, and a bench outside for the part where you sit and steam and say nothing for ten minutes.
- Cedar saunaHeated from 07:00 to 21:00, towels in the hall
- Cold plungeBurn-fed, roughly 6°C in winter, bracing in every season
- Treatment roomMassage by arrangement, booked at reception
- Morning walkAn hour up the glen and back, leaves at eight, no booking
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Good to know
Practical things
Getting here and away
Rooms are ready from 15:00 and we ask for them back by 11:00. The last stretch of road is single-track with passing places; take it slowly in the dark. Bags can be left at reception either side of a stay.
Families
Children are welcome in the rooms, the Long Hall, the Smokehouse and the sauna house during family hours. The Stagroom casino floor is closed to under-18s at all times, with or without a parent.
Access
The ground floor, the Long Hall, the Peat Room and the Stagroom are all step-free from the courtyard entrance. Two rooms are adapted and there is a lift to the first floor. Tell us what you need before you arrive.
18+
Read the detail
Responsible gaming, in practice
The Stagroom is an adults-only room and an evening there should be an evening out, nothing more. Our hosts will agree a limit with you before you play, remind you when your time is up, hold a break for you, or arrange a confidential self-exclusion. They can also hand you the number of an independent helpline, at any hour and with no questions asked.
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Questions
What people ask before they book
Is Northmoor an online casino?
No. Northmoor Lodge is a hotel in a glen with a casino room inside it. This website describes the building, the rooms, the kitchen and the Stagroom. There are no online casino games here, no bets are accepted and no payments are taken.
Who is allowed into the Stagroom?
Adults aged 18 or over, or older where the local legal minimum is higher. Photo identification is checked at the door on every visit, however old you look.
Do I need to be staying here to use the casino floor?
No. The Stagroom, the restaurants and nearly all the evening programme are open to visitors as well as residents, subject to the age check and to room on the night.
Can we bring children?
Yes, to the rooms, both restaurants and the sauna house at family hours. The casino floor is the one part of the lodge where under-18s are never admitted, even accompanied.
Will a host really help me stick to a limit?
Yes, and they would rather you asked. Tell any host your limit of time or money before you start. They will keep track, come and tell you when you have reached it, and arrange a break or an exclusion if you want one.
Can visitors eat here without staying overnight?
The Smokehouse and the Long Hall both take outside bookings. The Friday smokehouse table and the Saturday ceilidh are the two that fill up first.
Do you take private groups?
The Long Hall seats forty-eight for a private dinner and the cottage can be let alongside it. Write to us with the dates and the numbers and we will tell you honestly whether it works.
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Reservations
Write to the desk
How to reach us
Tell us your dates and we will tell you what is free
Send the nights you have in mind, the room you fancy and anything that would make the stay work better — a cot, a ground-floor room, a late arrival after the kitchen closes. Reception answers by email, usually within a working day.
Email reception- [email protected]
- Address
- Northmoor Lodge Casino Resort, Head of the Glen
- The Stagroom
- Daily 19:00 – 02:00 · adults 18+
- Reception
- Staffed 24 hours, all year