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
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 16 April 1971
Type: Castle
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Dated 1556 on voussoirs of doorway. L-plan, 3-storey

with tall slim S.E. tower 5-storey; unusual plan with

circular stair tower linking the two, prison cell in

thickness of staircase wall. Roughly built of pinned boulder

rubble; dressings part granite, part sandstone; angles

rounded, corbelled to square near wallhead; corbels for

brattice at 2nd floor level on E. Interior altered and roof

ruinous (1965).

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