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Latitude: 57.2243 / 57°13'27"N
Longitude: -2.6865 / 2°41'11"W
OS Eastings: 358644
OS Northings: 815044
OS Grid: NJ586150
Mapcode National: GBR M9QM.J0X
Mapcode Global: WH7MS.PPX5
Plus Code: 9C9V68F7+P9
Entry Name: Balfluig Castle
Listing Name: Balfluig Castle
Listing Date: 16 April 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 334289
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3278
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200334289
Location: Alford
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Huntly, Strathbogie and Howe of Alford
Parish: Alford
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Tower house
Dated 1556 on voussoirs of doorway. L-plan, 3-storey
with tall slim S.E. tower 5-storey; unusual plan with
circular stair tower linking the two, prison cell in
thickness of staircase wall. Roughly built of pinned boulder
rubble; dressings part granite, part sandstone; angles
rounded, corbelled to square near wallhead; corbels for
brattice at 2nd floor level on E. Interior altered and roof
ruinous (1965).
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