Images On Line from RCAHMSFrom the Ordnance GazetteerFrom Canmore;
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NN85SE 14.00 89117 51342
NN85SE 14.01 NN c. 890 515 dovecot
NN85SE 14.02 NN 89446 51706 Curling Hut
(NN 8907 5152) Grandtully Castle (NAT) (AD 1600)
OS 6" map (1901)
Although it contains older work, Grandtully Castle dates essentially from the late 16th century. A large modern mansion in the same style has been added to the N and E. The fortalice is of three storeys and built on the Z-plan.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887; N Tranter 1963.
Grandtully Castle is occupied and in good order . According to the laird (Mr H Stewart Fotheringham, Grandtully Castle) a family charter of 1414 states that the castle originated as a square keep about 1400. Further records and dated stones within the fabric of the castle signify that it was rebuilt on the L-plan about 1525. It was again improved in 1626 and substantial additons made in 1893-6. The remains of a fortified gatehouse (shown on MacGibbon and Ross' sketch) provided with oval gunloops with circular perforations survives at the entrance to the drive, at NN 8914 5138. It seems likely that this dates from the early 17th century and was the gatehouse to the castle courtyard since demolished.
Visited by OS (BS) 11 February 1975
Architecture Notes
NMRS REFERENCE:
Grandtully Castle.
Architect: Leadbetter and Fairley, c.1890.
Sir Robert Lorimer, iron gate. 1895. Proposed additions 1901.
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References
Brodies ([1990] )
Grantully Castle, Strathtay, Perthshire: [sale particulars],
Edinburgh,
Fraser, W (1868 )
The red book of Grandtully,
MacGibbon and Ross, D and T (1887-92 )
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries,
5v, Edinburgh, Vol.2, 273,
Perthshire illustrated (1844 )
Perthshire illustrated: a series of select views of the picturesque and romantic scenery, palaces, castles and seats, with historical and descriptive illustrations and an account of the royal progress through the county in 1842,
London; Edinburgh; Glasgow, IVIII,
Tranter, N (1962-70 )
'The fortified house in Scotland',
Edinburgh, Vol.2, 118,
The Stewarts held Grandtully from the 14thc. An older castle of about 1414 stood some 1 mile east. The present structure was built in the 16thc and was added to and altered in the 17thc. Some parts of the structure have very thick walls and may be older.
The Marquis of Montrose, General Mackay, The Earl of Argyl, The Earl of Mar, and Bonnie Prince Charlie in the various conflicts of the 17th and 18th centuries. It was abandoned by the Stewarts for Murthly Castle in the 19thc, but they returned and restored it in the 1920's.
The castle was sold in 1979, along with 10,000 acres estate. 30 acres were later sold in 1990.
From MacGibbon & Ross
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