Stables Cottage And Estate Offices, Glengarry Castle Hotel, Invergarry

The Glengarry Castle Hotel, originally Invergarry House, comprises a large Scottish Baronial house with associated stables and a sundial, constructed between 1866 and 1869, with additions from 1875 to 1877. The house was commissioned by Edward Ellice of Invergarry and his son, who undertook a significant building programme on their estates in the mid-19th century, demonstrating a personal interest in their tenants and staff. Designed by David Bryce with later additions by J MacVicar Anderson, the house is a rambling two-storey and attic structure with an irregular L-plan. The symmetrical four-bay south (garden) front features projecting canted bays rising to gabled attics, topped with small bipartite windows and central pedimented dormers. A low terraced balustrade links the bays, leading to lower, rubble-walled terraces. The west elevation includes a wide, projecting gabled bay with a canted window and simpler bays to the north. A substantial northeast wing incorporates a corbelled angle tower to the southeast, with a birdcage bellcote on a north gable. The building is predominantly ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, and includes mainly two-pane sash windows. Interior features original carved wooden balusters on the entrance hall staircase, some original chimney pieces, and moulded cornices. The U-plan stables are linked to the main house by a pedimented archway, enclosing a stable court with a high, coped wall and ashlar gate piers. The west elevation of the stables displays finialled dormers. A sundial, likely from an earlier structure, stands on a low octagonal base. Carved plaques in the northwest bear inscriptions in English and Gaelic, and a plaque dated 1869 displays the Ellice and D MacVicar Anderson monograms with the inscription “Architect”. The house replaced a previous building belonging to Lord Ward.