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.
From Summer 2008, there will be an indoor swimming pool with an
additional sauna, too. We are also developing The Mill House to
accommodate 18 guests and The Old Barn to take a further 16 (each
with 12 adults maximum. The main house can take a party of 30 (maximum
number of adults is 24) so we will be doubling the capacity on the
estate.
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