Cameron House

Cameron House, located on Loch Lomond near Balloch, Scotland, was first built in the mid-1700s, and later purchased by Sir James Smollett.

The modern Baronial stone castle was built by William Spence in 1830 (rebuilt after a fire in 1865), with peaked gables and decorative turrets.

[3] Over the centuries the Smollets hosted James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, the Empress Eugenie of France, Princess Margaret and Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Winston Churchill.

[1] In 1985 Laird Patrick Telfer Smollett sold the House and land to Kildonnan Investments who had already developed Craigendarroch in Ballater.

Locally, rumours began the Christmas tree in the foyer caught fire, however a court investigation at Dumbarton Sheriff Court in January 2021 found that a hotel porter had put a bag of hot ash and embers into a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.