vacation rental Dunoon Highlands and Islands Old Kilmun House holiday apartment bed and breakfast

Luxuriously equipped 17C house that sleeps 18

Data of object

Type of object:	vacation rental
Living area:	400 m²
Number of rooms:	over 10
Number of of sleeping accomodations (beds):	18
Number of bathsrooms:	3
Listing #:	3643

Old Kilmun House is a lovely, luxurious holiday home picturesquely situated in two and a half acres of private gardens at the side of the Holy Loch in the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park in Argyllshire. We use the house ourselves and with improvements for 2004 including a new kitchen, an open fire in the sitting room, bigger and better dining room furniture that makes the table a very comfortable 12, and a new shower-room downstairs, we are getting nearer our aim of making it the most comfortable and best-equipped holiday house available. Another innovation for our 2004 season is that we can put you in touch with an excellent, and very reasonable, outside caterer. Alison Sykora of the Real Food Consultancy is based a couple of miles away in Strone. We've had nothing but enthusiastic feedback from everyone who has used her. With a large sitting room, wood-panelled dining room, comfortable kitchen-breakfast room, snug with big TV and DVD, games and snooker room, plus five double bedrooms, two triple rooms, and a bunk room for children, the accommodation is flexible enough for most parties. The garden, like the house, is absolutely unique. Originally built by the family of the Duke of Argyll in 1693 – the Campbells have a family mausoleum next door at Old Kilmun Church – the house was owned in Victorian times by the Younger family, who founded the amazing Benmore Gardens a couple of miles away, which still contain the tallest trees in the UK. They also planted a huge variety in ours. The house is well situated for sight-seeing around the West Coast. The immediate area is renowned for some of the best walking in Scotland, and it’s a great base for fishing, riding, shooting, sailing or cycling. We’ve put in 6 fishing rods, 8 bikes for different sizes (with helmets), and 4 bags of golf clubs. There’s loads to do in the area, and some great local pubs and restaurants, but we’ve also tried to make it comfy enough for people who don’t want to go anywhere else. There’s a croquet set, large trampoline, football & large goal net, cricket stuff, soft tennis and badminton for the garden. As well as the ¾ sized billiard table in its own room, there is a little games room downstairs with a dartboard plus a multifunction / convertable entertainment thingy with table football, air hockey, table tennis, mini-snooker etc. We’ve supplied Monopoly, Outburst, Pictionary, Scrabble, Backgammon, Chess, a few jigsaws etc for days or evenings when you don’t fancy anything more energetic. There’s a pretty decent library with loads of Scottish authors represented, and over 40 CDs. The snug features 32” widescreen Sky telly with CD surround-sound plus a variety of videos and about 20 good quality DVDs. If there is anything else you need to know, you can contact us.

Town and location of object

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Once off the ferry (it’ll take you about 10-15 minutes to get to Old Kilmun) turn right, follow coast road through Sandbank up to the top of the Holy Loch, following signs for Crianlarich and Glasgow, passing the Cot House Service station and pub on the right. Immediately afterwards turn right following signs to Kilmun, Strone and Ardentinny. The house is 0.99 of a mile from that junction on the left hand side, immediately after the signpost commission sign for the Kilmun Aboretum.

Dunoon , Highlands and Islands , Scotland , Great Britain

The Cowal peninsula, formed by Loch Fyne to the west and Loch Long to the east, is the most visited part of Argyll. It is not far from Glasgow and frequent ferry services by CalMac and Western Isles Ferries from Gourock serve Dunoon. Dunoon is the capital of the Cowal region, and grew from a village to a major Clyde seaside resort in the 1800. It is dominated by Castle Hill upon which sits Castle House, built in the 1820s by a wealthy Glaswegian who generated local protest about access to common land around the house. Places to visit include the Cowal Bird Garden and Ardnadam Heritage Trail, both a short distance from the town. The Dunoon Ceramics Visitor Centre in the town itself provides tours around the factory and offers an interesting rainy day activity. On the last weekend in August, Dunoon plays host to the Cowal Highland Gathering, the largest of its kind in the world. The grand finale of this event is the spectacle of the massed pipes and drums of more than 150 bands marching through the streets of the town. The landscape of the south-west Cowal is in complete contrast to the townscape of Dunoon. The Kyles of Bute, tracts of water separating the north end of Bute from Cowal, offer breathtaking scenery and some of the best sailing in Scotland. Well worth a visit is the peaceful loch-side village of Tighnabruaich situated on the western Kyle. The village is home to Tighnabruaich Sailing School which offers week-long courses from beginners to advanced. There are wonderful views over the Kyles from here, shared also by the neighbouring village of Kames. The little village of Colintraive, on the eastern Kyle, marks the narrowest point of the Kyles - a distance of little more than 200 yards. It is from here that the small CalMac ferry departs for the Isle of Bute. North west from Dunoon the main road follows the long established tourist trail past Loch Eck to Strachur, on Loch Fyne. Immediately north of Strachur is Creggans, home to the famed lochside Creggans Inn, until recently owned by the family of the man on who James Bond was modelled. The precise northern end of the Cowal Peninsula is undefined, but for practical purposes can be taken as the line of the roads leading to Lochgoilhead, the resort village lying, as the name suggests, at the head of Loch Goil, an arm of Loch Long.

Arrival and distances

Distance to next airport: Glasgow Airport - 50 km
Distance to next railway station: Gourock - 10 km
Distance to next motorway: Junction M8 - 14 km
Distance to next Shop: 0.5 km

Sport facilities nearby

Fishing, Climbing, Biking, Golf, Hunting, Canoeing, Mountainbiking, Horse riding, Swimming, Sailing, Diving, Tennis, Hiking, Water ski, Surfing,

Type of holidays

Relaxing holidays
Family holidays
Golf holidays
Cultural and sightseeing holidays
Romantic holidays
Skiing holidays
Beach holiday
Hiking holidays

Bedroom

Total number of sleeping facilities: 8

5 Double room(s)
2 Trible room(s)
1 Other sleeping rooms

Bathrooms and WCs

Number of bathsrooms: 3

1 bathsrooms with shower
2 Bathrooms with shower and tub

External facilities of object

Garden
Barbecue
Children s playground
Car Parking
Terrace

Internal facilities of object

Fireplace
Central heating

Machines and equipment

Bed linen provided
Boat
CD-player
Bicycles
TV
Towels provided
Audio tape player
Radio
Satellite-TV
Deck-chairs
Stereo
VCR
Washing machine
Tumble-dryer

Kitchen facilities

4 ring stove
Single ring stove
Freezer
Dishwasher
Fridge
Microwave
Oven

Services

Babysitter
Maid service
Cleaning service

Other

Pets welcomed
Seniors suitable
Children welcomed

Additional Information

If you would like to view the house on other websites, please look at www.oldkilmunhouse.com and www.aboutscotland.com. As well as the standard cooker in the kitchen, we also have an AGA. There is a snooker table and a separate games room.