Walled Garden, Balsarroch House

The remains are of a late 17th-century house and a 19th-century walled garden, situated to the east of Balsarroch House.

The house originally comprised two rectangular-plan ranges, two stories in height, linked by screen walls to the north and south. Surviving fragments include the gabled north range and a section of the north screen wall. The construction is of rubble, originally lime-washed, and was originally crowstepped and thatched. Lintelled openings are set within rubble surrounds. The interior comprised two compartments, with a larger hall to the north, divided by a mid-gable. A doorway faces west, and fireplaces are present on both the north and south sides of the hall. Segmental-arched mural windows are recessed in the east and west walls of the hall, flanking the mid-gable. A fireplace and aumbry are located in the north gable of the hall. Smaller chambers contained aumbries in the north and west walls, with a window embrasure to the south gable.

A section of a late 17th-century north screen wall adjoins the northeast corner of the house; it is built of rubble with a later weathering course and coped wallhead. It features an original segmental-arched opening with rubble voussoirs and sandstone blocks in the jambs. Fragmentary remains of the east wall of the east range are also visible.

The walled garden is square in plan and constructed of rubble, featuring a bowed projection at the center of its east wall.

Balsarroch House was likely built by one of the Campbells, who held the lands of Balsarroch from the 16th to the 17th centuries. Ownership later passed to the Ross family; descendants included the Arctic voyagers, Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross and Sir James Clark Ross. Balsarroch House was still roofed and intact around 1916. According to Smith, the house represents an early example of non-defensive buildings associated with middle-ranking lairds in western Galloway. A sundial from the property has been removed to Stranraer Museum.