A popular hotel located in the ‘Gateway to the Highlands’ has been put up for sale.
The 41-bedroom three-star Crianlarich Hotel has been placed on the market with offers over £1,750,000 being sought.
The hotel, located in Main Street, was built during the Victorian Era and is being marketed by property firm Graham + Sibbald.
In the property listing, the agents said: “Crianlarich offers its visitors a variety of nature-based activities, with the West Highland Way long-distance footpath passing through the village and the nearby Glen Falloch providing a number of steep-sided hills for the avid Munro-baggers to tackle.
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“The hotel itself has 36-bedrooms and the nearby Glenbruar House offers a further five letting bedrooms, all en-suite.”
On-site staff accommodation is provided via two additional dwellings, Laurelbank and Evergreen, and two static caravans.
Included in the sale is a field extending to over five acres which leads to the banks of the River Fillan, popular for fly-fishing (includes riparian fishing rights), as well as a parcel of land in the centre of the village currently used for overflow car parking.
Graham + Sibbald added: “The hotel offers a variety of bar, restaurant, function, and lounge facilities to relax and socialise after enjoying the surrounding nature trails and picturesque views.”
Alistair Letham, a hotel and leisure consultant with Graham + Sibbald, said: “The availability of the Crianlarich Hotel offers a new owner the opportunity to acquire a popular 3-star hotel in a scenic location with the potential to further develop the business.”
The present hotel currently lies at the important junction of two major road and rail routes crossing the mountainous district of Breadalbane.
The original inn lay some 500 metres to the west of the present site, at the foot of Bogle Glen, where the north/south trackway through Glen Falloch made a junction with the important east-west route through Glen Dochart.
There are stories that link it to Jacobite folk hero Rob Roy Macgregor, as recorded by an unknown author in ‘Strath Fillan and Glen Dochart in Bygone Days’.
The old inn survived into modern times, until the fashions, prosperity and technical advances of the Victorian era led to the taming of the Highlands. Military roads and bridges had been constructed in the late 18th century to subdue the Jacobite interest, and these had been supplemented by official inns or “King’s Houses” in key strategic locations; elsewhere, the traditional establishments continued to meet commercial needs.
The track through Glen Bogle fell into disuse and the present hotel arose, beside the modern highway.