Castle Levan

Castle Levan is a bed and breakfast set in a B-listed tower house on the Levan side of Gourock, a stone keep begun by the Morton family in the fifteenth century and much enlarged in the sixteenth as part of the Ardgowan estate. Left ruinous for generations, it was rebuilt between 1984 and 1987 to designs by the architect Ian Begg, and now operates as a small, independently run guest house with just two guest bedchambers. Staying here means sleeping within thick medieval walls a short way above the Cloch shore, with the Firth of Clyde and the Cowal hills beyond. It is a single-property, owner-run operation rather than a hotel group, so numbers are limited and the experience is personal. The setting suits walkers on the Cloch coast path and travellers using the nearby Gourock ferry and rail links.