Culross Palace stands out as a complex of ochre-colored buildings, defined by their crow-stepped gables, pantile roofs, and distinctively harled walls. Despite the grand name, this is not a royal residence but a seventeenth-century merchant’s home, built by the coal and salt entrepreneur Sir George Bruce between fifteen ninety-seven and sixteen eleven. Bruce made his fortune through innovative mining, including the creation of a tunnel that extended deep beneath the Firth of Forth to extract coal from under the sea.
Culross Palace - The National Trust for Scotland
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