Winton House has not been described as a castle for a very long time - there wasn't much left of it at the time Colonel Hamilton of Pencaitland refurbed it at the end of the 18th century, and Winton House it has been ever since. (It has two entirely separate wings so that he and his wife (the Mrs Hamilton of Pencaitland that Nathaniel Gow wrote that great tune for) never had to set eyes on each other). The relabelling suggests a bit of editing by someone unfamiliar with the local geography - though then as now, Pencaitland was not that easy to get to from Edinburgh.