Ormidale House at Ormidale Estate
Glendaruel, Argyll
- Sleeps 35
- Bedrooms 9
- Bathrooms 4
- Pet Free
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Accommodation Description
With 13 generously-sized bedrooms, 7 of which can be set up as twin or king-size, and 8 bathrooms, the two upper floors of Ormidale provide flexible and supremely comfortable sleeping accommodation for as many as 35 guests.
Our ground floor reception rooms are just as generous, with drawing room with open fire, dining hall for 24, and games room with recently re-covered full size billiard table. And there’s two TV rooms, a play room for kids, a breakfast room and massive kitchen.
With a magnificent drawing room with open fire, a TV room / snug with full Sky, full-size Billiard Room with table football, air hockey and darts, playroom with another Sky TV and the world's largest dolls house, large kitchen with AGA and breakfast bar for 10, and breakfast room seating 16 and with doors leading our to the terrace and the hot tub all on the ground floor - as well as the stunningly impressive dining hall seating 24 - Ormidale has sufficient downstairs accommodation to cater for any large house party. And we are not exactly packing them in like sardines up the stairs.
Amenities Description
Dining Hall seating up to 24 at one table, with wood-burning stove
Kitchen with 4 oven Aga, separate electric hob and oven, dishwasher, microwave, coffee machine, food processor, American-style fridge freezer with ice maker.
Breakfast Room seating 14 with CD player; door to terrace and garden
Sitting / TV Room with full “Sky plus” TV package, plus Home Cinema surround-sound DVD / CD system, 37” flat-screen Plasma TV, some DVDs
Drawing Room with Open Fire, 200 book library, some CDs, and separates Hi Fi system (plus jigsaws, board games, backgammon, chess etc)
Billiard Room with Open Fire; original full size Norval Billiard Table dating 1900, with CD player; plus dart board, card table, casino set including roulette, craps etc, table football and electric air hockey
Playroom with worlds biggest dolls house, games, books,and 42” Plasma TV with independent Sky control and DVD.
10 person Sauna - Utility Room with further fridge / freezer, washing-machine, dryer - Two downstairs cloak rooms.
- Child Friendly
- Countryside
- Cycling Friendly
- Detached
- Dishwasher
- Dogs Allowed
- Family Friendly
- Fishing Onsite / Nearby
- Games Room / Play Facilities
- Hot Tub
- Internet
- Near a River
- Near Walks
- Open Fire / Log Burner
- Parking Available
- Pets
- Sauna
- Short Breaks Allowed
- Snooker Table
- Tennis Court
About the area
This is the best value large country house or celebration house party house available in Scotland - or so say reviewers and guests!! Built by the Duke of Argyll in 1693, on the site of a previous even older dwelling, it is a historic house with contemporary levels of comfort. Just an hour and a half from Glasgow, in stunning scenery at the top of Loch Riddon, it is available for weekend or weekly rent.
With a large private sauna, and a private seven seater hot tub, a full size billiard room, table football, air hockey and darts, a shared tennis court newly resurfaced in 2024, a croquet lawn, sunken trampoline, and two TV rooms with full Sky coverage, about 20 board games, a dozen jigsaws, a dozen bikes, six sets of golf clubs, a football pitch and over 20 acres of grounds to play in, we don't think you are likely to get bored on site. But we are surrounded by gorgeous scenery if you want to explore off-site. We have an abundance of wildlife on the estate, including red squirrels and deer. There’s no light pollution, and the star-gazing is spectacular.
Pets and children are welcome. The house is styled to be luxurious without being intimidating, comfortable and relaxing as an environment, as well as a bit grand in all the right places. Dining Hall, Drawing Room with baby grand piano, and Billiard Room give you the grandeur - splendid settings for fine dining and old-fashioned country living in the style befitting a country pile built for family members of the Duke of Argyll. The drawing room can seat at least 20 at once in comfy sofas and chairs. The dining table can just about squeeze 24. There’s signed sports memorabilia from Andy and Jamie Murray, Chris Hoy, David Beckham, Gavin Hastings and others. Lots of contemporary and older original Scottish Art on the walls. The unique atmosphere is helped by the quirky and fun one-off collectables and heirlooms like old type writers and sewing machines, Victorian knife sharpeners, even a dinosaur tooth.