Keil Hotel
Hotel (20th Century)
Site Name Keil Hotel
Classification Hotel (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Keil House Policies
Canmore ID 213393
Site Number NR60NE 33
NGR NR 67881 07986
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/213393
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Southend
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR60NE 33 67881 07986
Keil Hotel [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, August 2010.
Location formerly entered as NR 6780 0795.
Imposing 5 storey flat-roofed Moderne hotel, commanding extensive views over the Mull of Kintyre from its hillside location. The hotel was built just before the outbreak of World War II and was used as a Navy hospital before opening as a hotel in 1947.
James Austin Laird's career reached its peak in 1929-30 with the building of the extremely fine English neo-Jacobean Carlung at West Kilbride for his uncle Robert Barr, a whisky and shipping magnate, and the commission for Balmore School in Possilpark, a large and handsome renaissance design. The refined academicism of these buildings was in marked contrast to the absolute simplicity of his best work before the First World War. By the late 1930s some of his designs showed the influence of the modern movement, notably the moderne Keil Hotel at Southend, Kintyre, built in 1938-39 (Dictionary of Scottish Architects)
