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Balinakill Hotel

A Category C Listed Building in Kintyre and the Islands, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7469 / 55°44'48"N

Longitude: -5.5538 / 5°33'13"W

OS Eastings: 177052

OS Northings: 656112

OS Grid: NR770561

Mapcode National: GBR DFNJ.BV3

Mapcode Global: WH0KM.NTJ7

Plus Code: 9C7PPCWW+QF

Entry Name: Balinakill Hotel

Listing Name: Ballinakill House Clachan

Listing Date: 28 August 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 344677

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12021

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200344677

Location: Kilcalmonell

County: Argyll and Bute

Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands

Parish: Kilcalmonell

Traditional County: Argyllshire

Tagged with: Manor house

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Description

Later 19th century. Scots Baronial. Main block:
2 storeys and attic. Rendered; dressed facings,
gabled slate roofs.
2 bay-windows: crow-step gablets; ball-finials. 2
piended dormers, between gablets, to W. Oriel window
to N.
Block to S; square projecting bay. Door approached by
short flight of steps with open stone balustrade.
Turrets. Ornamental chimneys. Addition at rear.

Statement of Interest

Built as a mansion Sir William MacKinnon 1st Baronet

(1823-93) who made his fortune in the Orient and was the

founder of the British East Africa Co. Block to S and

E may have been original mansion of Mac Allister and

has been demolished. Keil School was evacuated to here

from Dumbarton 1941-46.

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