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.
The House is a Category B listed building.
For three centuries, the land was part of the Smollett estate, now reduced to 44 hectares of wooded land that juts into the Loch. Over the centuries the Smollets hosted James Boswell and Samuel (Dictionary ) Johnson, the Empress Eugenie of France, Princess Margaret and Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Winston Churchill.
In 1985 Laird Patrick Telfer Smollett sold the House and land to De Vere Hotels.
De Vere sold the hotel in November 2014 to Sankaty Advisors and Canyon Capital Advisors, the owners of QHotels. Shortly afterwards in 2015 Cameron House was sold again, this time to KSL Capital Partners, an American firm
Today it operates within the Cameron House resort, which comprises 44 hectares of land around the hotel and The Carrick Estate, situated 2 miles north of the hotel, and has two golf courses and an award-winning spa. The resort also has 115 self-catering properties operating under the Cameron Lodges brand.
Loch Lomond (/ˈlɒx ˈloʊmənd/; Scottish Gaelic: Loch Laomainn – ‘Lake of the Elms’) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands. Traditionally forming part of the boundary between the counties of Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire, Loch Lomond is split between the council areas of Stirling, Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire. Its southern shores are about 23 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of the centre of Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city. The Loch forms part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park which was established in 2002.