Charles Powell Leslie II  was a keen amateur architect.   He designed the present farm buildings and the fairy tale gate lodge which looks down the lake to the castle.

Some of his plans included a cut price copy of the French Chateau de Chambord at least six times larger than the present house and a nine storied gothic tower in the middle of the lake reachable only by Venetian gondolas.

Sadly for Charles but fortunately for Leslie family finances he choked on a fish bone before he could realise any of his major architectural fantasies.