Castle Leod

Castle Leod is a tower house dating from around 1600, with substantial additions made in 1616. Constructed of red rubble with ashlar dressings, it was originally designed as an L-plan structure with a re-entrant angle at the southwest. This plan was altered in 1616 when most of the re-entrant angle was filled in with a symmetrically arranged frontage. The ground floor entrance features a moulded doorpiece and a large, worn armorial panel positioned above. This entrance leads to a wide scale and platt staircase, serving the first-floor hall, the newels for additional upper floor accommodation, and two decorative gabled wallheads. Wallhead dormers are present on both the north and south sides.

The castle includes splayed gunloops and angle bartizans with decorative, corbelled bases and conical roofs at the northwest, northeast, and southwest corners. A corbelled wallwalk, dating from the earliest phases of construction, runs along portions of the east, west, and south wallheads, incorporating the angle bartizans. The roofs are parallel and run east-west, finished with crowstepped gables, corniced stacks, and slate coverings. A two-storey wing in the Scots Baronial style was added in the later 19th century to the rear.

Internally, a room on the south front contains paneling from the mid-18th century. The hall exhibits early 19th-century detailing. The castle was built by Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Coigach, who was tutor to the Earl of Kintail.