Glengarry Castle Hotel, Invergarry

The Glengarry Castle Hotel, formerly Invergarry House, is a Scottish Baronial hotel built in two phases during the mid-19th century, with additions made later. It was commissioned by Edward Ellice and his son, also Edward Ellice, who undertook a significant building programme on their Glengarry and Glenquoich estates.

The main building, dated 1866 and 1869 and designed by David Bryce, with later additions of 1875-77 by J MacVicar Anderson, is a large, two-storey and attic rambling house in an irregular L-plan. The north side features a gabled entrance porch within an L-shaped court, while the symmetrical south (garden) front has four bays. The exterior is of tooled ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. The south elevation is symmetrical, with projecting canted bays rising into gabled attics, each with small bipartite windows; the central pair have pedimented dormers. A low, terraced balustrade links the bays, with a central staircase leading to lower rubble-walled terraces. A projecting gabled bay with a canted window is on the west side, along with two simpler bays with dormers. An extensive wing extends to the northeast, featuring a corbelled angle tower to the southeast and a birdcage bellcote on a north-facing gable. The windows are predominantly two-pane sashes, and the roof is slate, with tall coped ridge, end, and wallhead stacks.

Inside, the entrance hall retains its original staircase with carved wooden balusters, along with some original chimney pieces and moulded cornices to the ceilings.

Attached to the main house is a U-plan stable block, also of single storey and attic, linked by a pedimented segmental-headed archway. The stable court is enclosed by a high coped wall with square ashlar gate piers, capped with moulding and finials. The west elevation of the stables has five gabled bays with finialled dormers in the outer bays.

A sundial, possibly from an earlier house, stands nearby with an octagonal dial on a moulded octagonal stem, set on a low octagonal stone base. The building incorporates carved plaques in English and Gaelic: one reading "With thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever" and another, in Gaelic, "Mur togiehobush an tigh is diomhain staditmir an lughd togail." A plaque inscribed with the Ellice and D MacVicar Anderson monograms, inscribed "Architect" and dated 1869, is located on the east side. The house appears to replace a previous house belonging to Lord Ward, as mentioned in the New Statistical Account.