8-Bed Scottish Lodge with Private Beach & 4.5 Acres on Kintyre Peninsula – Vacation Home



Crubasdale Lodge, Muasdale, Kintyre Peninsula, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, PA29 6XD, United Kingdom, Tarbert (Great britain)
8 Bedrooms · 4 Bathrooms · 0m² Floor area
€637,650
House
No parking
8 Bedrooms
4 Bathrooms
0m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand at the upstairs window on a clear evening and the Atlantic stretches out ahead of you, Gigha sitting low on the horizon, the dark shapes of Islay and Jura beyond it, and the sky doing something extraordinary in shades of amber and deep violet that no filter could replicate. This is what westward-facing Scotland does at dusk. And it does it every single night from Crubasdale Lodge.
Crubasdale Lodge is a substantial Georgian-Victorian stone house at the northern edge of Muasdale, a quiet village on the A83 that most people drive through on their way somewhere else. That's their loss. The Kintyre Peninsula is one of those places that rewards the people who actually stop—properly stop, unpack, breathe the salt air, and stay a while. Eight bedrooms, four bathrooms, over 4.5 acres of mature grounds, a detached three-bedroom annexe, a timber cabin, a Victorian walled garden, stone outbuildings, and a private sandy beach that comes with the title deeds all the way to the high water mark. Properties like this don't appear on the market often. When they do, they tend to go quietly and quickly to people who recognize what they're looking at.
The house itself was originally built as a hunting lodge, and that heritage shows in the bones of the place. Stone walls under a slate roof. An impressive staircase rising through the central hall. A marble fireplace in the drawing room beside a wood-burning stove that, on a January evening when the rain is coming in off the Atlantic and the wind is up, becomes the single most important thing in the building. The proportions are generous throughout—rooms with height and light, windows positioned to catch the views. Someone designed this with intention, and that original thinking still holds up.
Oil-fired central heating runs off a recently replaced boiler, so the practicalities of warmth and running costs are already addressed. The condition is good throughout, which matters enormously for a house of this vintage and scale. You're not walking into a restoration project. You're walking into a house that needs to be lived in.
The grounds deserve proper attention because they're not simply a garden—they're an ecosystem. Woodland to the rear creates genuine privacy and shelter from the westerlies. The Victorian walled garden is a serious piece of kitchen gardening infrastructure: sheltered, south-facing, the kind of space where you grow your own raspberries and courgettes and cut flowers from June through September. The lawns sweep down toward the shore, and the beach at the bottom is yours. Sandy, accessible, private. On a calm July morning it's where you start the day with a swim in water that is, let's be honest, bracing but exhilarating.
The stone outbuildings scattered around the estate present real possibilities—workshop space, garaging, horticultural storage, or longer-term conversion potential subject to planning. Scottish planning authorities are familiar with rural conversion proposals of this type, and Argyll and Bute Council has processed similar applications in the area.
The annexe is income from day one. Three bedrooms, detached, with its own access—the kind of self-contained unit that holiday letting platforms get excited about. Kintyre is walking, cycling, golf, whisky distillery country, and visitors are looking for places off the beaten path that still have comfort and character. The timber cabin adds another string to that bow, previously operated as a self-catering unit and ready to be revived.
Life in Muasdale is quiet in the way that genuinely rural Scotland is quiet—not a performance of rurality for weekenders, but the real thing. The village shop is a short walk and handles the daily essentials. Glenbarr Primary School is three miles south along the A83. Campbeltown, 15 miles down the coast, covers everything else: supermarkets, a secondary school, a hospital, independent shops, the Springbank and Glen Scotia distilleries if you want to spend a rainy afternoon doing research. The Mull of Kintyre itself is half an hour's drive and worth every minute.
Transport links are better than you might expect for somewhere this remote. A regular bus service runs up to Lochgilphead and through to Glasgow. Campbeltown Airport at Machrihanish—one of the most dramatically situated airstrips in Scotland, its runway effectively beginning where the beach ends—operates twice-daily weekday flights to Glasgow. The journey takes 40 minutes in the air. By road, Glasgow is roughly two and a half hours via the Rest and Be Thankful pass, a drive that is, frankly, one of the better reasons to do it.
Spring here means carpets of bluebells in the woodland and the first real warmth on the south-facing walls of the walled garden. Summer brings long, long evenings—the sun doesn't properly set until 10pm in June—and the kind of sailing, sea kayaking, and coasteering conditions that Kilbrannan Sound does so well. Autumn turns the woodland gold and the west coast light goes soft and cinematic. Locharanza on Arran is visible across the sound on clear days. Winter is genuinely atmospheric if you embrace it rather than fight it, and the lodge has everything required to do exactly that.
For international buyers, Scotland's property law operates differently from England and Wales—offers are made under Scots law, and the process involves a solicitor acting as both conveyancer and negotiator. It's straightforward once you understand the system, and Homestra's network includes advisors experienced in guiding non-UK buyers through the process. There are no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing property in Scotland, and the income-generating potential of the annexe and cabin—alongside the main house—offers meaningful flexibility in how you structure ownership and running costs.
At £637,650, the per-bedroom value here is compelling by any measure, and the combination of private beach, income-producing units, and scale of grounds at this price point on the Scottish west coast is genuinely rare.
Key features:
- 8 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms across the main Georgian-Victorian lodge
- Over 4.5 acres including mature woodland, formal gardens, and lawns
- Private sandy beach with title extending to the high water mark
- Westward Atlantic views toward Gigha, Islay, and Jura
- Detached 3-bedroom annexe with strong holiday let potential
- Timber cabin previously operated as self-catering accommodation
- Victorian walled garden ideal for productive kitchen growing
- Several substantial stone outbuildings with conversion potential
- Oil-fired central heating with recently replaced boiler
- Original period features: marble fireplace, impressive staircase, wood-burning stove
- Village shop within walking distance; Glenbarr Primary School 3 miles south
- Campbeltown 15 miles away with airport, shops, schools, and healthcare
- Twice-daily weekday flights from Campbeltown to Glasgow (40 minutes)
- No foreign ownership restrictions; straightforward purchase process under Scots law
- Outstanding rental income potential across multiple units
If you want to understand what makes Crubasdale Lodge different from everything else at this price point, the answer is simple: you cannot replicate the combination of private beach, Victorian walled garden, income-generating annexe, and that Atlantic view anywhere else on this coastline. Get in touch with the Homestra team to arrange a viewing—this is one of those properties that genuinely needs to be experienced in person to be properly understood.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 8
- Size
- 0m²
- Price per m²
- €∞
- Garden size
- 18210m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 4
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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