Editing Balmoral Castle (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:Balmoral Castle porte cochere.jpg|upright=0.75|thumb|The "battlemented" [[porte cochère]]. Also called a "carriage porch", this structure is covered to protect people arriving and departing from inclement weather.]]

Though called a castle, Balmoral's primary function is that of a country house.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Quercus| isbn = 978-1-62365-543-3| last = Castleden| first = Rodney| title = The Castles of Britain and Ireland| year=2014}}</ref> It is a "typical and rather ordinary" country house from the Victorian period. The tower and "pepper pot turrets" are characteristic features of the residence's Scottish baronial style. The seven-storey tower is an architectural feature borrowed from medieval defensive [[tower house]]s. The "pepper pot" turrets were influenced by the style of 16th-century French [[château]]x. Other features of the Scottish baronial style are the [[crow-stepped gable]]s, [[dormer]] windows, and [[battlement]]ed [[porte-cochère]].<ref>{{cite book| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group| location=Westport, Conn| isbn=978-0-313-31850-4| last=Jones| first=Nigel R.| title=Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=epsFOeV1mCMC&q=Architecture+of+England,+Scotland,+and+Wales| year=2005| url-access=subscription}}</ref>