Stables, Inverlochy Castle

The stables and walled garden date from 1863, associated with the construction of (New) Inverlochy Castle, a mansion built for the 1st Lord Abinger. Queen Victoria stayed at the castle in 1873. The stables themselves likely involved Hesketh, with a later wing probably designed by T. MacVicar Anderson in 1891.

The stable and carriage house block is a symmetrical, north-facing range. It features a central two-storey, three-bay range (now a dwelling) with single-storey, three-bay wings set slightly back. The building is constructed of coursed bullfaced rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A round-headed entrance is recessed, and to the right a round-headed carriage entrance has a small round-headed window above. A modern garage doorway has been inserted into the left-hand block. Round-headed windows feature 2-pane glazing, and the entire range has a crenellated wallhead with dummy angle turrets on the central block. The roofs are shallow piended and slate.

The walled garden, also dating to 1863, is an extensive area enclosed by high, coped rubble walls situated to the rear (south) of the stable range. The (Old) Inverlochy Castle, a Guardianship Monument, lies to the southwest. The main castle is a large, long Baronial mansion with an east entrance front and a west-facing garden elevation. It is constructed of coursed bullfaced rubble with tooled, contrasting ashlar dressings. The building consists of two and a half storeys, with a large, square four-storey tower over a basement at the northeast. This tower includes an octagonal stair turret rising above the crenellated wallhead. A smaller square tower is incorporated into the asymmetrical composition at the southeast, fronted by a principal entrance and porte cochere with a groined ceiling initialed "A" (for Abinger). There is also a hoodmoulded, pointed-headed entrance in the southeast re-entrant angle of the northeast tower. The fenestration is irregular, including several two-story canted windows with crowstepped gables above. The west front is long, irregular, and incorporates canted windows, towers, crowstepped gables, and crenellations. Mostly 2-pane glazing is present, along with corniced ridge stacks, and slate roofs.

Inside the ornate 1891 entrance hall is a richly decorated plaster ceiling featuring a central picture of cherubs, along with coats of arms and a coronetted "A" in the surrounding detailing. A wide staircase with turned wooden barley sugar balusters ascends. A drawing room includes an ornate, inlaid marble chimney piece, inserted in the 1970s.