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Kentallen Pier
Pier (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kentallen Pier
Classification Pier (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) An Currachd
Canmore ID 107543
Site Number NN05NW 12
NGR NN 0134 5848
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/107543
- Council Highland
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
Holly Tree Hotel, 1902-3, Formans & McCall engineers, to designs by James Miller or Robert Wemyss The former Kentallen Station, designed in the same Glasgow Style as Ballachulish Station, but with an attached two-storey dwelling/office block with a part-brick exterior. A branch line linked it to a substantial stone pier, connecting up with the steamer service. Now converted as a hotel and restaurant, the signal box has been replaced with a restaurant, the platform concealed as an internal corridor.
[A holly tree was planted to mark every mile along the Ballachulish branch railway. With its steamer pier alongside, Kentallen was an important, albeit short-lived, interchange for travellers between Argyll and Lochaber.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
