Balcarres House lies 1km north of the village of Colinsburgh, in the East Neuk of Fife, in eastern Scotland.

The present house is the result of substantial extensions in the early nineteenth century, using part of a fortune made in India, but preserves much of the original mansion.

[3] The house is in southeast Fife, south of the A915, between Largoward and Colinsburgh about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the coast.

He and his wife, Anna supported the Royalists through the Civil War,[7] dying in exile in Breda in 1659, while Balcarres was sequestered by the Parliamentarians.

The Crawfords continued to back the Stuarts, and in 1689 Colin, 3rd Earl of Balcarres, was imprisoned and later exiled as a supporter of the deposed James VII.

He was permitted to return to Scotland in 1700, but took part in the failed Jacobite Rising of 1715, and was subsequently placed under house-arrest at Balcarres.

[3] In 1789, the sixth Earl Alexander, sold Balcarres to his brother, Robert Lindsay, who had acquired a fortune in India.

[2] His son, Sir Coutts Lindsay, built another extension to the north east, and the terraced gardens, to designs by David Bryce in the 1860s.