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This is our licensed tea-room where you can eat delicious home cooked food, buy hot or cold drinks and choose from a range of specialities (such as our own oysters, marinated salmon etc.) based on locally available ingredients.  In fact you can just have a cup of tea or you can have a three course meal at any time from 9am to about 4.30pm.  We also have a range of fine quality wines (no spirits) to complement your choice from the varied menu.  Try our oysters and Guinness
Ulva's newest building may also be its oldest -  its fabric is literally torn from the past.  No one knows how far back its origins as a ferry shed may go.  In 1880 when the Ferryman's house, then an inn, and eight buildings nearby burned, the Boathouse may have simply lost its thatch.  There wouldn't have been that much else to burn.  So, although the ferryman's  house was built sometime after 1880, we know little about the age of the old shed.
 
In 1989 it was transformed.  The old fireplace was retained, but otherwise, it was gutted.  Flotsam and jetsam accumulated over decades was turfed out, along with a broody hen and a gaggle of geese, to make room for the sparkling new tea-room.  Another storey was added for the interpretive display.