Ormidale House was built as a seat of Clan Campbell
in 1696. After ongoing minor changes through the centuries, in 1900
the house was substantially extended by the renowned Scottish architect
Robert Lorimer to form the well-laid out, comfortable, bright, light,
and spacious 13 bedroomed “laird’s house” that
is available for weekend or weekly rent today.
 It’s
been pretty luxuriously equipped and nicely furnished, mostly with
antiques. The new, comfy beds feature fabulous quality goose-down
and feather duvets and gorgeous bed-linen, we’ve put some
original Scottish art on the walls, bought half decent crystal for
the table and generally tried to ensure that it’s as comfortable
and well-equipped a place to stay as you’ll find in Scotland,
without having any of the formality or grandeur of a castle or stately
home. The house has a lovely, relaxing feel.
With a drawing room, TV room / snug, full-size Billiard Room, playroom,
large kitchen with AGA and breakfast room downstairs - as well as
the impressive dining hall seating 22 - Ormidale has sufficient
accommodation to cater for any large house party. We have laid out
the bedrooms to offer real flexibility; two rooms are set up as
twins, three as king-size doubles, and one as a quadruple bunk room.
The other seven bedrooms can be set up either as super-kingsize
doubles, as twins, or even sometimes as triples. All bar two of
the bedrooms have either an ensuite bathroom or a basin. There are
four further bathrooms, two separate loos, and a sauna. Altogether,
the house has nine showers and ten wc's.
We now have an indoor heated swimming pool which is shared between the three houses on the estate. Each house gets their own hour of exclusive swimming time in the morning and in the afternoon – outside those six hours, it is a “free for all” in the pool.
The Mill House and The Old Barn, our stunning new steading conversions, opened in October 2008 and have been christened “the wow factory” by the early guests. They are just under 100 yards from the main house, with different aspects and their own gardens. Taken together, they can accommodate as many guests as the main house, and the large 80m2 open plan living area in the Mill House is the most spacious in any of the three houses. Many of the parties that have enjoyed the properties so far, took the Mill House and Old Barn together instead of Ormidale House itself. The Old Barn sleeps 14 guests in seven bedrooms, and the Mill House accommodates 22 in nine bedrooms.
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