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Latitude: 57.0726 / 57°4'21"N
Longitude: -5.8948 / 5°53'41"W
OS Eastings: 164023
OS Northings: 804688
OS Grid: NG640046
Mapcode National: GBR CBT0.YFW
Mapcode Global: WGZ9Y.FH5G
Plus Code: 9C9P34F4+23
Entry Name: Armadale Castle, Skye
Listing Name: Armadale Castle
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347255
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14003
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200347255
Location: Sleat
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Eilean á Chèo
Parish: Sleat
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Castle Country house
James Gillespie (Graham), 1815-20; of this range only the entrance with flanking turrets and the stairs remain as ruins.
David Bryce, 1856-58. Tudor Gothic; sneck coursed tooled ashlar, ashlar dressings. Central recessed 3 storey, 3 bay block with crenellated towers of 4 storeys. Entrance in western re-entrant angle. 1st floor windows small 2 and 3 lights with cusped heads, remaining windows mostly 3 lights and mullioned; crenellation to towers corbelled; simple, near symmetrical window treatment at rear with central wall-head stack.
Small 2 storey, 2 bay addition with single storey wing to east; harled with ashlar dressings; 2 pedimented windows rise through eaves. End and ridge stacks; slate roof.
What survives of castle now Clan Donald Centre. Controlled demolition of Gillespie wing; Bryce wing retained; poor condition. Upgraded Category C(S) to B, 11 March 1998.
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