Glenmarkie Old Lodge is believed to date back to before 1716, with later additions. It was the original sporting lodge in the glen, until a later lodge was built in 1900, which is nearby and screened by trees. To the east lies Glenmarkie Farm and some cottages. So while at the head of a glen, the property is part of a small community. It is a pretty, stone built and harled house, with a slate roof and two single storey wings. It faces south over its own grounds, and is sheltered by its own woodland to the west, with views east to the neighbouring hills. Glenmarkie Old Lodge has been used as a holiday house in the past, but latterly it has been a family home. In recent years considerable works and improvements have been done with landscaping including the thinning of a number of trees and replanting with some 400 hybrid rhododendrons and some 200 specimen trees, creating lovely wooded but easily maintained grounds. In addition, two ponds were established, one in the garden and one in the woodland.

Internally there have also been considerable improvements. Since 2010 the roof, including the outbuilding to the rear, has been re-slated. Refurbishment works included some wall and underfloor insulation, new flooring, replacing a number of the double glazed windows, as well as refurbishing the shower room and study. A new condensing boiler was fitted in 2020. In 2022 a new kitchen was created, along with a new bathroom upstairs, with a section of the rear roof being raised. Further insulation was installed. As such, it is a very well presented house. From the forest road a drive leads up to a gravelled parking area and continues past the house. A further drive comes in from the side, past the garages. An entrance porch opens to a lovely drawing room with two bay windows with window shutters, and a fireplace with a wood burning stove. To one side is the dining room with a glazed garden door and shelved press, while to the other is a sitting room with fitted bookcases and storage with Corian worktops, a Hisense wall mounted TV and a hatch with attic steps up to partially floored roof space. An inner hallway has stairs to the first floor, an understair cupboard and engineered oak flooring, while the tiled shower room has a washbasin with vanity unit and a WC. The new kitchen has fitted units with beech worktops, two Belfast sinks, Panasonic wall mounted TV, stone flag flooring and a back door. Fitted NEFF appliances include a fridge/freezer, dishwasher, halogen hob with extractor, and double oven/grill. In addition there is a two door AGA with extractor and an AEG washer/dryer. Upstairs are three bedrooms with window shutters, and a part timber-lined bathroom with washbasin with vanity unit and WC. There is a rear courtyard with a stone built range of outbuildings with a slate roof which comprise a store and a workshop / boiler shed with a Worcester oil fired boiler and wiring for a generator.

Below and to the side is a harled garage block with a slate roof comprising two garages with concrete floor, floored roof space and up and over doors, and a store. In front of this is an enclosed garden with beds. Steps lead down to a lower garden with a bank of specimen rhododendrons and shrubs, a pond and the old turbine house. Some fine trees provide privacy and shelter. There is a wooden log shed (4.7 m x 6.05 m) with three bays. Lying to the west is a deer-fenced woodland garden with specimen rhododendrons and trees including maple, cedar, different Asiatic birches, acer griseum, weeping pear and redwood. Decking with a Scandinavian solid fuel hot tub and stove is a lovely area to soak up the atmosphere. Paths lead to a further pond.

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