Balker, Lochinch Castle

Balker, located at Lochinch Castle, is a late 18th century, 2-storey, 3-bay house with later alterations. The building features single storey sections at the rear and on the outer right, constructed of painted rubble. It has gabled first floor windows on the north and south elevations, with timber gable skews and painted surrounds around the window openings.

On the south elevation, which serves as the entrance, there are stone steps leading to a central entrance. This entrance is framed by an arched timber lattice porch and a glazed timber door topped with a letterbox fanlight. Above the door, there is a single window aligned with it on the first floor, along with a square stone plaque and a timber finial at the gable apex. The eaves are bracketed timber, and there is regular fenestration in the flanking bays. To the outer right, there is a single window in a lower height section.

The west side elevation consists of a single bay with non-aligned single windows at both the ground and first floors on the right, and a small single window in a lean-to on the left.

On the north rear elevation, there is a single window in the central bowed single storey section, a single window within later brickwork to the right, and a glazed timber door to the left. The main house has single windows flanking the ground floor, with three single windows on the first floor, including an elongated stair window in the centre. There are timber doors and single windows in the single storey lean-to on the outer right and in the single storey section on the outer left.

The building predominantly features 4-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, stone skews, coped stacks, and polygonal cans. The interior was not seen in 1999.