Walled Garden, Inverlochy Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.

Walled Garden, Inverlochy Castle

WRENN ID
under-moat-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
OS grid reference
NN 140 767
Coordinates
56.84505, -5.05104
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The property comprises a mansion, stables, and walled garden, dating from 1863 to 1891. The mansion was originally designed by Hesketh, with extensive additions by T. MacVicar Anderson in 1891. It is a large, long Baronial mansion with an east-facing entrance front and a west-facing garden elevation. The construction is of all coursed, bullfaced rubble with tooled, sometimes contrasting, ashlar dressings. The mansion is primarily two storeys and has an attic. A prominent, large, square four-storey tower with a basement stands at the northeast, featuring an octagonal stair turret rising above the crenellated wallhead. A further, less dominant, square tower is incorporated into the asymmetrical composition at the southeast, fronted by the principal entrance and a porte cochere with a groined ceiling bearing the initial "A" (for Abinger). A hoodmoulded and pointed-headed entrance is also present in the southeast re-entrant angle of the northeast tower. The fenestration is irregular, including single and double-light, two-storey canted windows with crowstepped gables above. The long, irregular west front incorporates canted windows, towers, crowstepped gables, and crenellations. The windows are predominantly sash windows with two panes of glass. Corniced ridge stacks and slate roofs are present.

The interior features an ornate entrance hall from 1891, with a richly decorated plaster ceiling depicting cherubs and coats of arms, alongside other detailed ornamentation. A wide staircase has turned wooden barley-sugar balusters. An ornate inlaid marble chimney piece was added to the drawing room in the 1970s.

Adjacent to the mansion are the stables and a walled garden, both dating to 1863, with a later wing likely added by T. MacVicar Anderson in 1891. The symmetrical, north-facing stable and carriage house block is a square, two-storey, three-bay range (now a dwelling) with single-storey and lofted, three-bay wings set slightly back. It's constructed of coursed, bullfaced rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A round-headed entrance, a recessed door, and a round-headed carriage entrance with a small loft window above are present. A modern garage doorway has been inserted. Round-headed windows with two panes of glazing are visible, and the entire block has a crenellated wallhead with dummy angle turrets on the central block. It is roofed with shallow piended slate.

The extensive walled garden, constructed of coped rubble, extends to the rear (south) of the stable range. The site includes the (Old) Inverlochy Castle, a Guardianship Monument located to the southwest. (New) Inverlochy Castle was built by the 1st Lord Abinger between 1863 and 1891, and Queen Victoria stayed there in 1873.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Inverlochy Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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