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Barnbougle Castle today

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Barnbougle Castle

Barnbougle Castle is a Scottish tower house on a rocky terrace overlooking the Firth of Forth, rebuilt in the Scots Baronial style in the late 19th century for the Rosebery family. The present building incorporates older north and east fabric and remains part of the Dalmeny estate as a category A listed property.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1894

Today

Still standing

As it stood in 1894

The shape it held in its prime.

Three-storey tower house with an attic, built of rubble dressed in pale ashlar sandstone on a projecting rock terrace above the Firth of Forth. The roofline shows steep slate roofs, tall stone chimneys and crow-stepped gables; a crenellated parapet runs around the top. Small round bartizans sit on the western corners, and the façades feature tall mullioned windows and an arched ground-floor entrance; a low garden wall and balustrade separate the shore from the castle grounds.

Step inside

8 places to explore in 1894.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Barnbougle Castle — including 3 interiors: purpose-built gallery hall, private library, dining room. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Approach from grassy track (south-west)South entrance and main façadeSeaward corner / original towerWestern bartizans and crenellated parapetCastle garden and obelisk sundialPurpose-built gallery hallPrivate libraryDining room

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See Barnbougle Castle with the fires lit.

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