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Field Visit
Date 17 August 1927
Event ID 1098966
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1098966
Balcarres House.
The mansion is mainly modern, but incorporates the remains of a late 16th-century house, which was apparently Z-shaped on plan, having a small newel-staircase projecting as a turret from the north-west re-entrant angle. The ground floor is vaulted. The hall, which occupies the first floor of the main block, lies north-east and south-west and has a fine panelled plaster ceiling of the 17th century, with the Royal Arms in the central compartment. Some years ago, in the course of minor alterations, a painted ceiling, presumably of the 16th century, was found behind the plaster ceiling.
DOWER HOUSE. Adjoining the mansion and to the east of it is the dower house, a plain L-shaped building of the later 17th or early 18th century. It is now two-storeyed, but originally rose at least one storey higher. The wing is occupied by a handsome scale-and-platt staircase with a solid newel, shafted at the outer ends. The entrance door, which lies at the stair foot, is fitted with an old 'tirling pin'. The interior has been modernised.
HISTORICAL NOTE.- The original house was built in 1595 by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir (1).
RCAHMS 1933, visited 17 August 1927.
(1) Lives of the Lindsays, by Lord Lindsay, vol. i, p. 376.
