Gleneagles Hotel

1924-5. Matthew Adam, Glasgow, architect. Charles W

Swanson, Edinburgh, interior decorator. Very large

hotel in Georgian Style. Mostly 3 storeys and garret but

partly 2-storeyed with two garret floors. Walls mainly

brick, harled. Blaxter stone at main entrance doorway,

bow-windows, bay-windows and other architectural

features. Tower over entrance is dated 1924.

Interior: Entrance Hall is panelled in oak and has

richly decorated plaster ceiling. Public Rooms - Lounge,

Sun Lounge (semi-circular) Dining Room, Ball Room (top-

lit by cupolas) - are sumptuously decorated in

eighteenth century manner with coffered ceilings.

Ionic pilasters, swags, etc. Floors are of reinforced

concrete but Ball Room is fitted with Morton's patent

Valtor dancing floor. In first floor, which is reached

by a grand staircase beside the ball room, and upper

floors are over 200 bedrooms. The whole building is

warmed by central heating on low-pressure steam

heating system. There is a swimming pool in a rear wing;

also a large Garage and other out-buildings.