Historic Arts and Crafts house with separate cottage and views over the

Ferry Inn, , By , G84 0RS

Lower ground floor: Sitting room, bedroom/gym, WC. Ground floor: Reception hall, drawing room, dining room, kitchen, study, morning room, pantry First floor: Principal bedroom with en suite bathroom, 3 further bedrooms, 2 further bathrooms. Ferry Inn Cottage: Detached cottage with living room/bedroom/bedroom, kitchen and shower room Garden & Grounds of around 4 acres.

Local Information and both local authority and Ferry Inn is set in around 4 acres private schools. of its own grounds on the . The grounds The accessibility of the Rosneath form the corner of the promontory Peninsula has been greatly on the edge of Rosneath which improved by the opening of the juts out into the sea loch. There new Ministry of Defence road are magnificent views from the over the hills to Loch Lomond. house over the loch and to the The journey time to Loch marina at on the opposite. Lomond, the Erskine Bridge and Airport has been The Rosneath Peninsula lies to significantly reduced by the new the north of the of Clyde. road which bypasses Shandon, The peninsula is reached by the Rhu and Helensburgh on the road from in its A814 on the other side of the neck to the north. The peninsula loch. is bounded by to the northwest, Gare Loch to the east About this property and the to the south The original Ferry Inn stood next and is connected to the mainland to the main jetty for the ferry by a narrow isthmus at its which ran between Rosneath and northern end. Gare Loch has Rhu on the opposite side of Gare been used as a naval base since Loch. The inn dated from 1800 the 1830s and on the and was extended three times opposite side of the loch is a key between 1862 and 1897. naval base to this day. There is also a naval yard at on In about 1896 Princess Louise, the west side of the peninsula. Queen Victoria’s daughter, The peninsula is about 8 miles instructed a young architect called long and is only 2.5 miles wide at Edwin Lutyens to extend the inn its widest point. A ridge runs as a private residence. Princess along the centre of the peninsula Louise’s husband was the from where there are magnificent Marquis of Lorne, who succeeded views in all directions. Villages his father in 1900 as the 9th Duke situated along the coastline of Argyll. include Rosneath, and Cove. Lutyens was only 27 when he undertook this commission. His Helensburgh on the opposite side design added the part of the of the loch is a larger town with a house which still exists today. The full range of supermarkets, high original inn was subsequently street stores, independent shops demolished, leaving Ferry Inn and

Ferry Inn Cottage which stands ground floor. The kitchen was as a detached dwelling behind. refitted in 2003 by Clive Christian of London and it is finished to an The house is one of only two exceptionally high standard, with Lutyens buildings in and multiple cabinets, worktops made is a fine example of the architect’s of granite and Corian, a central style at this period. Lutyens island and a number of integral created a two storey house over a appliances. A small morning room raised basement in the Arts and has a door out to the garden. Crafts style. The house is unusual There is a long landing on the first in that its three main elevations, floor, off which are four double to the south, east and north, are bedrooms. The principal bedroom all very different. The original has its own luxurious bathroom drawings for Ferry Inn (which and there are two further included a much grander Baronial bathrooms, unusual for the style scheme which was not period, in that they are original to adopted) are held by the Royal the layout, and include a Institute of British Architects. The wonderfully stylish Art Deco style importance Lutyens gave to the bath / shower room. scheme and his royal clients is illustrated by the fact that he The lower ground floor offers added watercolour to his sketch further accommodation including drawings. a hallway, sitting room and a further bedroom, presently used The many beautifully preserved as a gym, giving five bedrooms in features of Ferry Inn include the total. dominant triple chimney stack, the impressive stone entrance hall Ferry Inn Cottage with its curving roof ends and the The accommodation in the arched doorways. There are a cottage has an open plan living variety of window styles at room/bedroom and includes an different levels, including outshot expertly designed kitchen and windows at first floor level on the bathroom. east elevation overlooking the sea, arched windows on the Below the living space at ground ground floor and the near full floor level are various useful length windows to the drawing outbuildings including a boiler room. room, wood store, workshop and cold store. Additional outbuildings The house combines both quality include a tractor shed, craftsmanship with superb greenhouse and garden shed. internal accommodation which is, despite the historic nature of the Grounds property, ideal for modern family Ferry Inn is set in gardens and living. Off the large central grounds extending to around 4 reception hall are the dining room, acres. This ownership includes kitchen, study, morning room and around 250 metres of loch magnificent drawing room along frontage and the shingle beach in with staircases which lead to both front. the upper floor and the lower

Formal gardens surround the house, with a gravel courtyard parking area to the south enclosed by railway sleeper walls with trees and shrubs. To the north of the house is a terrace and a well stocked garden enclosed by a thick beech hedge. This secluded garden is an ideal spot for summer entertaining and is reached directly from the morning room.

The grounds to the north of the house are mown parkland, with some fine trees.

Energy Performance EPC Rating = band F

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Ferry Inn, Rosneath, By Helensburgh, G84 Gross Internal Area 4955.9 sq ft, 460.4m² Cameron Ewer Glasgow +44 (0) 141 222 5875 savills savills.co.uk [email protected]

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