Balmanno Castle
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Balmanno Castle is a residential tower with a moat in the village of Dron in the Scottish county of Perthshire (now part of the administrative division of Perth and Kinross ). George Auchinleck had the castle built between 1570 and 1580. Today it is modernized and in good condition. The moat is still partially filled with water.
history
The castle was built after 1570 as a residential tower with an L-shaped floor plan. In 1915, the well-known Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer converted the tower into a summer residence for the then owner, William Millar , a shipowner from Glasgow . He carried out his work with great acuracy. Additional parts of the building form a courtyard with the original residential tower. Lorimer took the liberty of tinkering with the Gothic and built in interior details of Holyrood Palace , the restoration of which was the work of Sir William Bruce (1630-1710). He furnished the house in every detail, with parts that he had either specially commissioned or with items of trade that he had bought all over the country. He provided the expensive furniture.
After the Second World War , Balmanno Castle was sold. James Michael Edward Bruce and his wife, Jean Coats , lived in the castle in the 1950s. Your descendants still live there today.
Historic Scotland has listed Balmanno Castle as a Category A Historic Building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Balmanno Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Balmanno Castle . In: Gazetteer for Scotland . Retrieved February 22, 2017.
- ↑ Balmanno Castle in Geos . Retrieved February 22, 2017.
- ↑ Balmanno Castle . In: The Courier . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 19 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 3 ° 23 ′ 6 ″ W.