- Jas Mazur
- Jul 23
- 4 min read
Updated: Jul 27
Callachally: A House, A History, A Bed and Breakfast, July 2025
There aren’t many occasions when Tat gets a scoop. We’re not exactly set up for it—budgets are hardly a word we deal in. And I don’t mean that in the flippant “who needs a budget?” sense. I mean we rarely have the means to chase the stories we’d love to. Luckily, we have a handful of excellent contributors, and every so often, we stumble upon a house or a story that hasn’t yet graced the pages of a magazine or newspaper. When that happens, I feel a quiet sense of pride.
What Jas Mazur, the owner, has created at Callachally is one of those rare stories. It is so humbly beautiful, I find it genuinely moving. I know that might sound a little much, but to me, homes are an art form. If we can be stirred by a painting by William Nicholson, why not by a home—especially one shaped over years with heart, care, and a particular delicacy. There’s a beauty to Callachally that can’t be summed up in a paragraph. It’s the product of patience, passion, and an extraordinary eye—a home that can’t be forged with money alone. It takes curiosity, and a heart that delights in the small things, those things that others overlook. It is a home which conjures up my greatest of compliments - it reminds me of Kettles Yard.
In his piece, Jas traces the layered history of Callachally, a house on the Isle of Mull that has served as drovers’ inn, farmhouse, family base, and bed and breakfast. At a time when many old houses are scrubbed of their past, Callachally remains refreshingly intact—restored with restraint, filled with stories, and shaped by the people who’ve passed through its doors.
There have been people living in and around Callachally on the Isle of Mull since at least 4000 BC, there are Bronze age burial mounds and Cists close to the house.
