What is recorded here

Floors Castle is Scotland's largest inhabited castle, a ducal palace on the River Tweed whose pepper-pot turrets and castellated roofline create one of the most recognisable silhouettes in the Borders. William Adam designed the original house around 1721 for the first Duke of Roxburghe, but William Henry Playfair transformed it between 1838 and 1847 into a vast baronial fantasy of pinnacles, oriel windows and corbelled battlements. The Ker family still lives there, and their three centuries of collecting fill the rooms with seventeenth-century Brussels tapestries, Louis XIV and Louis XV furniture, silks and wallpapers that make the house feel less like a museum and more like a palace that has never stopped being used.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Floors Castle as Landscape (post Medieval). 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 by the Ker family in the early 18th century and later became the seat of the Earls of Dunmore. It is important as one of the largest and most complete Scottish castles of its period, reflecting the power and influence of the noble families in the Borders region.

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