Where is floors castle

Find Your Tour. Duration Days Days Days Days. From the entrance hall, the main rooms that you pass through are: The Ante-room where you learn about the current Duke of Roxburghe and his family, The Sitting Room, a relatively modest and cosy room, The Drawing Room with its distinctive 17th century tapestries, The Ballroom, the largest room on the tour, The Billiard Room, as you'd expect, The Bird room, a musty smelling room with a vast array of stuffed birds.

The Dining Room, another room of quite modest dimensions at the end of a corridor lined with colourful collections of porcelain. Accessibility: A guide can meet and assist disabled visitors to view the rooms that are practical. Floors Castle Features In. Best Seller. Product successfully added to your cart.

Visit Floors Castle. A modern estate The Estate is run as a modern business, with a variety of revenue streams and interests. It comprises some 52, acres 21, hectares , and encompasses a variety of Borders landscapes, from the Cheviots to the Lammermuirs, and the fertile land of the Tweed valley.

The in-hand farming operation comprises sheep and cattle, Cheviot lamb in particular is unique to the Borders and much sought after. The major arable crops are wheat and oil seed rape. Malting barley, potatoes and vegetables are also grown. Other activities on the Estate relate to Forestry, Sporting pursuits, Green Energy, Conservation and property management. Enjoy unlimited access to Floors Castle and Grounds, a fantastic day out with friends and family.

Join our email newsletter to keep up-to-date with our news and latest events. Her passions were collecting art, tapestries, furniture and decorative objects. She particularly favored French decor so many pieces of French origin can be seen including a commode from the Palace of Versailles. If the castle looks familiar to you, it might be because it was featured in the film Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of The Apes.

A drinking horn from the movie can be seen in one of the cabinets. Queen Victoria once stayed at Floors and the plaster figures of Highlanders that she presented to the 6th Duchess can be viewed in the Entrance Hall. My own favorite rooms were the Needle Room, with red silk walls and a sculpted ceiling and the dining room displaying silver gilt table wear and cutlery.

Two very unusual rooms are the Bird Room which contains over stuffed birds and the Robe Room, which displays the family's collection of costumes, including the robe that the 8th Duke wore to King Edward Vll's coronation. After touring the castle you can explore the woodlands and gardens or take a walk along the River Tweed. There is also a restaurant and gift shop on the grounds. Thank you for such a knowledgable write-up.

I am so glad you enjoyed your visit. Don't go to floors it's not worth the money! I had been looking forward to visiting Floors for a long time, but the whole experience was very disappointing. From the rude welcome at the gate to being totally ignored at the coffee shop, it was just a let down. The house was faded and very little was available to view. The gardens were mainly taken over by the garden centre and lots of grass.

It remimded me of a faded theme park. I would advise a visit to Mellerstain or Abbotsford for lovely houses and gardens and a genuine welcome.

Michael F Durham, UK 1 contribution. I have been to most of the Castle's and Homes in Britain, this is without doubt the worst. Staff rude and unhelpful. I was informed it would take 2 hours to see the house, it took 14 minutes also was informed the Town was 2 minutes away when infact it was a 35 minute walk, though I wish I hadn't have bothered as we had a meal in a pub and were all food poisoned as spent 3 days ill. My advice is do not visit Floors Castle or Kelso. I will try and tackle the points you have raised one by one.

I would be grateful if you could contact the Estate office so that we can take more information from you and investigate the problems properly. I was very surprised that a tour of the Castle only took you 14 minutes.

All of our experience from previous visitors has shown that it takes at least an hour to see the Castle with many visitors returning later on in the day to take another look. I am sorry that you did not find this to be the case. Ordinarily our staff are incredibly helpful and so I am quite concerned that you found them to be otherwise.

As all food is freshly produced in the Castle Kitchen, things can run low if we have had an exceptionally busy day. I can only apologise if you found things running low in both of our restaurants.

We do our best for visitors requiring disabled access with the provision of a lift, closer-by parking, free admission to registered carers and ramps or flat access in to all our of outlets. The building and indeed the grounds are listed and protected therefore we are unable to change anything to improve the situation further.

We do our best to work with the situation and our visitors. You were sadly misinformed when you were told that Kelso was just a 2 minute walk away. It is a two minute drive away but walking will take longer. I will ensure that all staff are informed of this to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

I feel it is a little unfair that you judge the whole of Kelso and indeed catering in another establishment within a review for Floors Castle. I am very sorry that you did not enjoy your visit to Floors and I am incredibly concerned by some of the points you raised.

I would ask that you contact the Estate office with more information so that we can look in to the matter further. Kind regards Charlotte Newton. Excursion Porsgrunn, Norway 2 contributions. I must say we were very disapointed of what we saw in Floors Castle. The whole site is very commercial. The admission fee was the most expensive of all the houses we visited Traquair, Mellerstain, Thirlestane and it just wasn't worth it.

Even though this Castle is the largest in Scotland, there is only a very few rooms open to the public. Nothing magnificent or exquisite to see here but lots of portraits of the new owner, the 10th Duke of Roxburghe. The tours ends with a turnstile to prevent people to take a second look, something we had not seen in any of the other places.

My advice, take rather a tour to Thirlestane, where there are lots to see. Tecwyn W Chester, UK 7 contributions. Absolutely devastated - changed beyond recognition and not in a good way.

I recently went back to the walled garden, which we used to love. We used to stroll around the gardens, before taking a table in the cafe out on the terrace, overlooking the garden and garden centre beyond. It's all changed and all for the worse. No garden centre any more, no access to the beautiful walled garden unless you pay a hefty sum and no view from the outdoor terrace.

Indeed the day we were there, no out door tables and chairs. I'm absolutely devastated as this used to be an asset to the town, attracting people from all over to visit the garden centre, have lunch in the terrace cafe and often then go on to browse and shop in the town. I am mystified as to why the Duke of Roxburgh would restrict access and increase prices to the public when he quite clearly does not need the money.

He is harming the town by doing this and is not supporting the town of Kelso to develop its tourism and attract tourists and shoppers into the town. Smacks of nepotism. I feel very sad that the duke does not see that he has a key responsibility to support and develop the resources for the town of Kelso. Okay, I get the fact that the castle is a home but when you open it up to the public, charge money I think you deserve more than the pitiful rooms which are shown. You only get to see a few of them and they are poorly staged and look like a museum rather than a house.

You are told that 'the family' uses them, sure they do. You are also told that most of the house is of limits, considering the size of the place, that is a bit rough. Over all not good at all, leaves a sour taste in your mouth and I personally felt ripped off.

The 'family' does not share much at all and if money is tight flog one of the Matisse in the house. Overall very poor and I would not recommend it. Lou P. Firstly thank you for your review. We are so very sorry you feel this way, all our other reviewers have raved about the experience. You are correct, this is still a family home but we do offer lots more than just the house and all included within the price The grounds are extensive and include woodland, riverside and grounds walks.

Star Plantation, statues, oak tree's with huge history, plants and wildlife in abundance and an insight to how an Estate like this maintains it's finesse and grandeur rather than leaving it to crumble.

The tapestries, porcelain and paintings are heir looms and to date, we prefer to show them rather than sell them. They all add to the fascinating story that is within the 10 generations of the family. However, all feedback is useful, so thank you once again for writing the review.

Rachel L 25 contributions. Hello Rachel, thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are sorry that you were not able to access the castle and grounds on the morning of Thursday 29th August as hoped.

Sadly, the Duke of Roxburghe had died at his home, Floors Castle, on the morning of your visit and as such we had to immediately close.