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Balmanno Castle

A Category A Listed Building in Dron, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.3248 / 56°19'29"N

Longitude: -3.3864 / 3°23'11"W

OS Eastings: 314357

OS Northings: 715575

OS Grid: NO143155

Mapcode National: GBR 21.5F61

Mapcode Global: WH6QR.Y9L5

Plus Code: 9C8R8JF7+WC

Entry Name: Balmanno Castle

Listing Name: Balmanno Castle Including Garden House Outbuilding and Gatehouse.

Listing Date: 5 October 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 336860

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5422

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200336860

Location: Dron

County: Perth and Kinross

Electoral Ward: Almond and Earn

Parish: Dron

Traditional County: Perthshire

Tagged with: Tower house Moated site

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Description

Built 1570/80 for George Auchinleck. L-plan with 62' tower in re-entrant angle, 4-storey with vaulted ground floor, wheel stair to 2nd floor level, corbelled turret stair above. Altered c.1800, restored Sir R.S. Lorimer 1916-21 with interior work in Scots 17th century style, turret stair heightened with bell roof and other alterations, single-storey and attic addition (with further small recent addition I.G. Lindsay.), rubble-built garden walls, garden house with forestair and bell roof, gatehouse V-plan with dormer heads all in neo 17th century style. Plasterwork Sam Wilson and Thomas Beattie, ironwork by Thomas Hadden, roof ridge beasts by Louis Deuchars.

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