Balfluig Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Castle.
Balfluig Castle
- WRENN ID
- rusted-trefoil-dock
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NJ 586 150
- Coordinates
- 57.22424, -2.68654
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balfluig Castle, dated 1556 on the voussoirs of the doorway, is an L-plan structure with three storeys and a tall, slim southeast tower that rises five storeys. The castle features an unusual plan that includes a circular stair tower, which connects the two sections and contains a prison cell within the thickness of the staircase wall. It is roughly built from pinned boulder rubble, with dressings made of both granite and sandstone. The angles of the building are rounded and corbelled to a square shape near the wallhead, with corbels present for a brattice at the second floor level on the east side. The interior has been altered, and the roof was reported to be in a ruinous state as of 1965.
Local climate
Balfluig Castle receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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