Achnacon House, Glen Coe

Achnacon House is a late 18th and early 19th century, three-bay, two-storey house constructed symmetrically. The house is harled throughout, and the front door, in the northwest facade, is presently obscured by a later porch with a side entrance and a piended slate roof. The windows are 4-pane sashes, and the end stacks have been renewed. The roof is slate. A small lean-to extension is attached to the rear of the house.

Adjacent to the house is a late 18th and early 19th century rectangular barn, now known as the Leishman Centre and serving as the Glencoe Mountain Rescue HQ. The barn is a two-storey structure of whitewashed rubble. The southeast frontage features a centre door accessed by a long, ramped approach that runs the full length of the building. The northwest elevation contains a pair of long slit vents flanking a first-floor window (originally a winnowing door) positioned above a raised ground floor. Further doors and windows illuminate former stables and byres located in the raised basement. The barn has multi-pane glazing, with modern Velux skylights to the southeast roof, and a slate roof. This is an example of a Lochaber "bank barn" type, designed to provide access to the first-floor threshing and storage barn via the ramp, which also created an artificial raised bank. The ground floor was used for livestock and stabling.

Achnacon was the former home of the Stewarts of Achnacon. The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland (circa 1858, page 59) provides additional details.