English: Gesto House and garden Gesto House, probably c.1760. Cracked shell of the former home of the Macleods of Gesto, evidently once a house of modest elegance with first floor piano nobile and dormered garrets. The principal floor comprised a small room over a ground floor lobby, flanked by drawing room and main bedroom. On the skewputts of the central nepus (or wallhead chimney gablet) are unusual scroll and palmette motifs. A later 18th century extension provided a larger kitchen/pantry to the rear; the porch was added c. 1870. Sited on the shores of a steeply-wooded inlet of Loch Harport, the house had a formal quarter garden to its rear, now a mossy paddock. The Macleods of Gesto were the oldest cadet branch of the Macleods of Dunvegan, with whom they became involved in a long-running dispute. The rift was cemented in the mid-19th century, when the tack of Gesto was transferred to two Borders sheepfarmers. The Macleods, who had settled here in c.1425, never returned to Gesto, but a descendant, Kenneth Macleod, got his own back by buying up extensive properties in the north of Skye when the Macleods had to sell them in the later 19th century to meet debts. (Source of information - http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/11053/details/skye+gesto+house/ )