Scotland · Restored
Balvaird Castle
Balvaird Castle is a late medieval Scottish tower house built around 1495 near Abernethy in the Ochil Hills. The compact rectangular tower block has red sandstone dressings, carved corbels and a cap-house above the stair; it is a scheduled monument in the care of Historic Environment Scotland. The building was extended with a gatehouse and outer courtyards in the 16th century and remained occupied into the 17th century.
Its prime
1567
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1567
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, rectangular late-medieval tower house of rough grey rubble with red sandstone dressings; a tall, blocky main tower with small slit windows and a larger barred first-floor window, corbelled corner roundels supporting a narrow wall-walk, and a small cap-house rising above the stair. A 16th-century gatehouse and low outer courtyard walls adjoin the tower; roofs are pitched slate and stonework shows reused carved stone detailing and inverted keyhole gun-holes.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1567.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Balvaird Castle — including 3 interiors: first-floor hall and aumbry (interior), ground-floor kitchen (interior), spiral stair and cap-house (interior/exterior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Balvaird Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1567 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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