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Remains of a castle, built in the early-16th century, incorporated into a farmhouse that was built in circa 1840, probably re-using the stone from the castle. The castle was built by the Ogilvy family and was probably extended and enhanced by Cardinal Beaton for Marion Ogilvy, his most favoured mistress. The castle was owned later by the Fotheringhams. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as an L-plan farmhouse with the tower at the southern corner. On the 2nd edition OS map the farmhouse has been extended to the north. The castle remains in the form of a rubble-built tapering round tower that is circa 17 metres (56 feet) tall. There are a variety of openings including oval gunloops at the base and arrow slits with dressed margins. There are string courses that are stepped over the openings and a later entrance to a vaulted basement. There is a fragment of a return wall to the northeast side. The farmhouse is three storeys, with the upper floor breaking the eaves, and a two-storey L-plan wing to the rear. There are single-storey additions at the re-entrant angle. It is constructed from tooled red sandstone rubble with roughly squared quoins and ashlar window margins. There is a pitched slate roof with finialled gablet dormerheads, and a circa 1999 single-storey piended roof porch at the centre of the south-west elevation.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NO35SW0002 - BALFOUR CASTLE