[2] The building is a Z-plan castle with a square tower on the south west and a circular drum-tower on the north east.

[5][6] The restoration of Ballone Castle from a roofless ruin state was carried out by Lachlan and Annie Stewart, owners of ANTA, the Scottish design company.

The Stewarts purchased the property in 1990 from a local farmer, the Castle having been abandoned in the late 18th Century.

The form of Ballone was a typical Scottish Z plan building with towers on opposite diagonal corners, with an extra wing believed added in the early 1600s.

[8] On purchase, the building was in a very poor roofless condition, with losses of the caphouse, first floor vaults and part of the south end, as well as much of the later wing.