What is recorded here

Floors Castle, Kennels and Gamekeeper's House stand in the Scottish Borders as a 19th Century kennel and gamekeeper's house stretching into the 20th Century. The castle's grandeur needs living proof: dogs to hunt, men to tend them, rooms to warm after dark. Perhaps the gamekeeper listened for castle footsteps through kennel walls, measuring power by the distance between a human bed and a dog's straw.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Floors Castle, Kennels and Gamekeeper's House as Gamekeepers House (19th Century) - (20th Century), Kennels (19th 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.

Floors Castle, including its Kennels and Gamekeeper's House, was built in the 19th century by the Douglas-Home family, who held the Earldom of Home and were prominent in Scottish nobility. The castle is important as a historic seat of the Earls of Home and as an example of 19th-century estate architecture in the Scottish Borders.

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