Luachrach is protected by a category ‘B’ listing and is one of the architecturally important houses of the area.
The house is a 2-storey country house by renowned architect Sir Robert Lorimer and has pleasant architectural lines and appealing features.
The house dates from about 1929 and is of mainly brick construction with painted harling under a Westmorland slated roof with bellcast sections.
In the recent past the house has undergone an extensive upgrading and improvements programme which has been carried out with great care and attention to detail ensuring that the original architecture has been complemented and enhanced.
A tree lined single track driveway from the public road leads along the loch side to the outer gates of Luachrach. The driveway continues on up past the house to a vehicular turning and hard standing area.
The house is entered via an open outer canopy porch to a good broad entrance reception hallway with engineered oak boarded floor. A cloaks/wc/wet shower room is off to the side.
A cosy TV den/small sitting room has a cast iron log burner. A useful study or home office is off the reception hall.
The main sitting room has a log burning stove and a feature box window with westerly views. The dining room is semi open plan from the sitting room and is well illuminated and features engineered oak flooring.
A door from the sitting room leads to a bespoke wooden wrap around garden room with flagged floor and doorway to gardens, views are spectacular in all directions.
From the dining room a door connects via the butlers pantry with original teak sink and ironmongery to a new fitted kitchen with granite surfaces, Belfast sink and feature cream Aga cooker. 2 useful pantry/stores are off the kitchen to the side, before leading to a similarly fitted utility room.
A back hallway leads to guest bedroom (3) with en suite shower room and also a back door to gardens and grounds.
The first floor is by an easily gained staircase with box seating at half landing to full landing leading to family bathroom, master bedroom (1) and bedroom 3.
Luachrach is situated about 2 miles to the north east of the West Highland town of Oban.
Luachrach is a small, private residential estate extending to about 63 acres, located in an area of natural and often dramatic natural scenic beauty. The house enjoys a position of prominence within the grounds with special south westerly views out across surrounding countryside, Luachrach Loch and beyond to the high tops of the island of Mull in the far distance.
The town of Oban about 2 miles to the west, is known as the gateway to the islands and is always busy with tourists boosting the local economy. Oban is the principal town of North Argyll has a good range of shops and professional services.
Oban has primary and secondary schooling and Oban High School has an enviable record of academic achievement. Across Scotland there are a number of reputable independent schools.
The town has a full range of retail, education, professional and cultural/tourist facilities and has a regular rail and sea plane service to Glasgow.
Glasgow has extensive retail centres and all of the cultural, educational, professional and leisure services normally associated with a major international centre as well as an international airport.
The west highlands and islands of Scotland offer some of the most spectacular scenery in the United Kingdom and as such it has always drawn people to the area for hill walking, mountaineering or field sports. Oban is also ideally located for sailing being situated in arguably the most dramatic coastal area of Europe. The surrounding area has a number of sheltered anchorages and marinas.
As with most parts of Scotland one is never too far from a golf course and Luachrach is no exception, the nearest course is within a few hundred yards.
Outbuildings
Boiler house with water filtration plant and equipment.
Garage, built in keeping with the main house,
original double garage, concrete floor, remote
controlled up and over door, long term stores in
roof space.
Stables, Custom built stables, timber
construction over double sloped concrete base,
three insulated loose boxes with rubber floors,
two covered clipping parlours, heated tack and
feed prep room with light, power and water,
workshop/tractor shed, log/hay store, covered
arch, double garage or general purpose
equipment and machinery stores with remote
controlled up and over door.
Shed, timber garden shed with electrics
Field Shelter, Three bay timber field shelters,
two with rubber floors the 3rd utilised as a hay
store. Power and water.
Old boathouse.
Water pump house.
Gardens/Grounds
The gardens around the house are laid mainly
to grass and there is a hedge protected
vegetable and herb garden. The gardens
feature a number of colourful rhododendrons and azaleas. There is ample turning and hard
standing areas for secondary vehicles, trailers,
boats etc and there is an equine turn out area
directly in front of the stables.
A series of electric fence protected pathways
and bridle paths lead to the lower rough
grazing.
Rough Grazing: Typical west coast mid hill rough grazing to about 16 acres.
Woodland: Circa 34 acres of mostly mature Sitka Spruce with broad leafs at the fringes.
Lochan: Directly in front of Luachrach is a
picturesque lochan to about 12.75 acres. The
lochan holds brown trout. The loch has a dam
and an outfall and falls within the Reservoirs
Act 1975 making it subject to annual dam
inspection. The proprietor of nearby
Glencruitten House has a personal right for the
duration of his ownership to fish for trout and to
keep a boat on the Loch.
Services
The house is serviced by a spring
private water supply which is UV
lamped and filtered. Central heating is oil fired
with a radiator system to the ground floor and
underfloor heating to the first floor. Mains electricity. Septic tank drainage. Broadband.
Note
The services have not been checked by the selling agents.
Note:
Luachrach Loch provides the water supply for
Glencruitten House as well as a number of
other cottages in the immediate area. Water is
pumped from a small pump house via
underground pipes to an elevated feeder tank
situated in the south east woods before leading
to the end users who have a right of access for
the purpose of repair, maintenance and
improvement.
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