For Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov it became the safe house at the edge of the world.

Now Heated Rivalry fans can relive some of the hit television show’s steamiest moments in Barlochan Cottage, tucked away on the granite-edged shores of Ontario’s Lake Muskoka, which has just been listed on Airbnb.

With its floor-to-ceiling glass walls and timber-clad ceilings, it was the only place in the ice hockey rivals’ lives where curtains didn’t have to be drawn.

It was here, in the season finale (titled The Cottage) that the heat of their rivalry finally cooled into something meaningful.

Guests can share in Shane’s uncharacteristic disregard for the waistline and fry up a cheeseburger or four in the “open concept kitchen with high ceilings, island with 4 stools, large windows and walkout to patio through the Muskoka Room”. And they can tantalisingly peel away any veneer of calculated nonchalance they might hold for one another in front of the granite fireplace – although indoor fires are actually prohibited, according to the listing’s extensive terms and conditions.

Designed by the Toronto-based firm Trevor McIvor Architect, the 2,500 sq ft timber structure at Walkers Point on the lake’s west shore was completed in 2020 as a retreat for a private client, according to the Architect’s Newspaper.

Applying an architect’s lens to a show about two hypermasculine men in a hypermasculine elite sport enmeshed in a slow-burn secret romance, the industry publication noted that the sleek, anonymous luxury condos Shane obsessed over represented the golden boy persona he presented to the outside world. The cottage, clad in charred Douglas fir, represented his inner soul.

“I didn’t buy this,” he tells Ilya. “I had it built.”

The decision to use a giant glass box as the setting for a secret getaway was not as paradoxical as it might seem, Alisha Bishop, a senior associate at Trevor McIvor Architect, told the publication.

Once inside, she said, the spaces became quite private, with the residence’s footprint shaped to nestle into the Canadian Shield, making the home nearly invisible from the lake.

The open-plan kitchen looks out over Lake Muskoka. Photograph: Airbnb

And it wasn’t just onscreen chemistry that kept Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams cosy, she said.

The cottage has an invisible engine – a radiant heating system that slowly releases heat through the concrete slab floor, enabling the characters to remain, well, completely exposed.

Fans obsessed with the show’s Easter egg numbers 24 and 81 (the jersey numbers of Shane and Ilya respectively), however, might be disappointed to learn that Barlochan Cottage does not come with a tariff of US$248.10 a night.

The three-bedroom, three-bathroom residence, “featuring almost 400ft of private waterfront to enjoy those spectacular Muskoka sunsets”, is subject to dynamic pricing and placed in Airbnb’s “luxe” category, where the nightly rate rarely sinks below US$1,000.