Sweet flows Rabbie Burns’s beloved River Nith, past the garden of an old manse that the poet knew well. Owned by Jane and Ian McAndrew, it is swept up from the Shortlist on a wave of reader approval.

Beyond ‘splendid wrought iron gates’, a ‘beautifully wooded half-mile drive’ leads to Paul and Poppy Szkiler’s towered and turreted Victorian pile, with a fountain ‘dominating the forecourt’.

Just a hop from Glasgow’s cultural attractions, with views across the glass roof of Central Station, Barrie Munn’s budget hotel occupies the penthouse floor of a 1905 office building.

As a former home of Glasgow merchants, Lorraine Gibson’s ‘outstanding’ listed B&B was built to provide rest and peace in a leafy neighbourhood – it still does today.

In a small coastal village from where cattle were once swum across to the Isle of Bute, Patricia Watt’s former shooting lodge turned pub-with-rooms-with-moorings wins more reader approval.

In mature woodland and gardens, Jan and Adam Moore’s relaxed and pet-friendly Scottish country house hotel is in an 18th-century former sporting lodge.