Glen Affaric Lodge

Glen Affaric Lodge is an 1871 shooting lodge designed by A & W Reid of Elgin, built in an asymmetrical style with Scottish Baronial detailing. The lodge is constructed of grey granite with tooled granite dressings. The north elevation features a square porch with a side entrance, rising two storeys and topped with a steeply pitched slated pyramidal roof and a cast-iron apex weather vane.

The long south elevation has a recessed, round-headed porch positioned off-centre, flanked by canted bay windows on the ground floor. Similar windows are present in the two-bay gabled west return elevation. A round drum tower rises the full height of the building at the southeast angle, and paired angle bartizans corbel out at the first floor of both the southeast and northwest angles. These bartizans are topped with bellcast conical fish-scale slated roofs. Some first-floor windows break the eaves under piended dormers. The windows are fitted with two-pane glazing, and all original cast-iron rainwater goods remain, including decorative brackets to the rhones. The building has tall coped ridge stacks and slate roofs.

Internally, the lodge retains original pine panelled dados in the entrance hall, passages, stairwell, drawing room, and dining room. The staircase has a pine newel with slender barley sugar cast-iron balusters. The dining room chimney piece features a wooden overmantel, a mirror, and decorative blue and white tiles depicting various sporting activities associated with Scottish shooting estates.

The lodge, named Glen Affaric Lodge in 1871, was built for Lord Tweedmouth of Guisachan. It occupies a commanding site on a small spit of land projecting into the eastern extremity of Loch Affric. Original plans and elevations are held at the Moray District Record Office, Forres.