What is recorded here

Balgonie Castle, Gardener's Cottage stands in Fife as a 20th Century Gardeners Lodge, not a grand castle chamber but a small working house for the hands that kept the grounds alive. It may have smelled of damp soil and wood smoke, with a kitchen hot enough to steal breath and a bed narrow enough to force honesty. The castle towers above, but this cottage served the daily truth: gardens need people before they need praise.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Balgonie Castle, Gardener's Cottage as Gardeners Lodge (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Balgonie Castle, Gardener's Cottage is a 20th-century structure associated with the larger Balgonie Castle estate, which was originally built by the Lindsay family in the 16th century. The cottage is remembered as part of the estate's historic grounds and reflects the domestic arrangements of a Scottish country house during the modern era.

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