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Balbithan House is a three storey〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Canmore )〕 L-plan keep dating from the 16th century.〔Lindsay, Maurice (1986) ''The Castles of Scotland''. Constable. ISBN 0-09-473430-5 p.61〕 Alternative names are ''Old Place of Balbithan'', ''Old Balbthan'' and ''Balbythan House''.〔 It is located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, south-east of Inverurie. ==History== The grounds once belonged to the Abbey of Lindores,〔 but by 1490 the Chalmers family had acquired them.〔 An earlier House of Balbithan, of which there is now no trace, stood above the river Don, opposite Kintore.〔 The Chalmers built the new house, probably as an oblong with one round tower, in about 1560.〔 A second wing, added in about 1600, entailed the removal of the tower, which had been to the north west.〔 Jacobites are supposed to have used the tower in 1746, after Culloden.〔 The Chalmers sold the property to James Balfour, an Edinburgh merchant, in 1696.〔 After a brief period – from 1699 to 1707 – in the ownership of the Hays, it came to be owned by a branch of the Gordons until 1859.〔 In the century to 1860 internal alterations were made, while the top floor was removed early in the 19th century, the second floor ceilings being raised.〔 It was bought in 1960 by the botanical artist Mary McMurtrie,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Balbithan House )〕 who restored it.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Balbithan House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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