Balcomie Castle

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/11/1972 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Crail NGR NO 62482 09851 Coordinates 362482, 709851 — Begun after 1526. Large quadrangular complex comprising:- SOUTH RANGE, ORIGINAL MAIN TOWER HOUSE BLOCK:- 4-storey with towers SW and SE, later outshot with vaulted ground floor between them, about 100' long. Only W section and SW 5-storey tower with 2-storey angle turrets (roofs cut to slope of main roof 18th or early 19th century) remains fairly entire but largely unfloored; remainder very fragmentary, ground floor only remaining. Later 16th century character, rubble-built with moulded openings, gun loops in some window breasts, surviving parts slated. EAST RANGE AND GATEHOUSE:- Late 16th,17th and early/mid 18th century; reduced and altered farm buildings early 19th century. Gatehouse dated 1602, now of 2-storeys only, evidently originally higher entrance section has segmental pend arch with 3 fine armorial panels above, moulded openings; section to north of it 18th century, 2-storey 4-window with pend arch; slated; remainder much rebuilt as farm buildings iron columned and partiled lean-to cartshed applied to southern northern parts rebuilt as steading. WEST RANGE (FARMHOUSE):- Circa 1765/75. Georgian wing probably built by General Scott retained as farmhouse in early 19th century demolition and reconstruction. 3-storey, 3-window and 3-window bow at S end main part, bowed porch in N angle of bow, droved ashlar, piended slated roof; northern section 2-storey, 4-window at ground floor, 5-window at 1st, droved ashlar, slated. Original woodwork. FARMSTEADING:- single-storey pantiled at north end of complex, pantiled, polygonal horsemill. — Built originally by the Learmonths to whom the lands were granted in feu farm in 1526. Passed to

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.