Scotland · Restored
Castle Leod
Castle Leod is a red sandstone L-plan tower house near Strathpeffer in Ross-shire, long the seat of Clan Mackenzie and the Earls of Cromartie. The building combines an early tower-house core with later additions and 19th-century renovations and remains a private residence open to the public on limited days.
Its prime
1851
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1851
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, mostly square red-sandstone tower house composed of an early L-plan core with a rounded corner turret capped by a conical slate roof, steep pitched slate rooflines and tall chimneys. The façade shows regularly spaced rectangular windows, thick masonry walls and a low parapet where an addition was built into the original front. The castle sits on a raised bank within wooded grounds of tall conifers and formal lawns approached by stone steps.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1851.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Castle Leod — including 3 interiors: re-entrant staircase (interior), wood-panelled room hung with mackenzie portraits, upper-floor bedroom. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Castle Leod with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1851 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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