Balcarres House, Category A listed mansion in Fife, Scotland
Balcarres House features a Z-plan tower design with an early nineteenth-century extension, incorporating an original turret built in 1511 by Sir John Stirling.
John Lindsay, second son of the Earl of Crawford, constructed the initial mansion in 1595, which later became the family seat of subsequent generations.
The estate contains a seventeenth-century Gothic chapel where Lord Lindsay of Balcarres, appointed by King Charles I in 1633, rests in his final burial place.
The mansion stands 1 kilometer north of Colinsburgh village, with the grounds listed in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
A Gothic tower folly surrounded by artificial ruins marks the location where John Blackadder delivered sermons during the Covenanter persecution in the 1600s.
Location: Fife
Location: Kilconquhar
GPS coordinates: 56.22930,-2.84986
Latest update: May 14, 2025 12:41
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