Balintore Castle Restoration Project

I have just had some awful news: a planning application was submitted at the beginning of this month for a wind farm immediately opposite Ba...

My friend Madeleine has written a short ghost story about Balintore Castle. It is based on a story that her parents made up to s...

Lintels are horizontal beams that run across the top of wall openings, such as doors and windows. They transfer the load of the wall a...

My roofer Andy is by profession a slater. He once said to me that he gets fed up of putting one slate on after another, and "thankfully...

Here are some pictures from the first turret restoration at Balintore Castle. If you do not like heights, do not look at this photograph ta...

Given that the main roof of Balintore Castle has largely been fixed-up, attention has turned to the 12 turrets. These pinnacles of iconic ba...

I finally got around to transcribing the scan of the newspaper advert for the 1877 Balintore Castle content sale, as it is not completely...