New owner sought for 'cool' lochside home in a converted Victorian ice store

The Victorian Ice House is situated in a picturesque location near Kilmartin, on a peninsula bordering Loch Crinan.

The quirky listed building was originally built as a store for ice used to pack up locally caught salmon for market and has featured in the television show Restoration Man.

It has already been partly converted but now offers a new owner huge potential to create their own one-of-a-kind rural idyll in the Argyll countryside.

The property currently features a barrel-vaulted ceiling, turf roof, an impressive glazed ‘light loft’ seating area and an outdoor hot tub.

The ice-like light loft has been fitted out with custom-made reinforced and heated glass walls, door and floor, making it suitable for use throughout the year.

The current owner has created internal window and door openings as well as a door at first-floor level linking the south-facing loft to the main building.

The house can also be entered at street level, where a door on the north gable opens into a chamber thought to have been used to wash and pack the fish.

From here the interior opens up into the main body of the structure and light loft beyond.

Access to the site is via a sloping drive with parking space beyond or through wooden gates opening up onto a grassy area to the front.

Plans are in place for further development into a bespoke two-bedroom home.

The Ice House is on the market with Galbraith with a guide price of £250,000.

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