What is recorded here

Floors Castle is the largest inhabited castle in Scotland, a ducal palace where pepper-pot turrets and castellated rooflines rise above the River Tweed like a dream built from stone. William Adam designed the original house around 1721, but William Henry Playfair transformed it between 1838 and 1847 into a baronial fantasy of pinnacles, oriel windows and corbelled battlements. Inside, seventeenth-century Brussels tapestries and French furniture from the Louis XIV and Louis XV periods still occupy rooms decorated with fine silks and wallpapers. The Ker family has lived here for three centuries, and that continuous occupation makes the grandeur feel breathed rather than performed.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Floors Castle as Country House (18th 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 was built in the 18th century by the Ker family, later the Earls of Roxburghe, and is notable as one of the largest and most important stately homes in the Scottish Borders. It is remembered for its architectural significance and its role in the region's social and political history.

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