View from parapet of keep to West.
D 47398 CN
Description View from parapet of keep to West.
Date 28/7/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 47398 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 760016
Scope and Content Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross, from west This shows the mansion from the top of the old keep. Visitors would arrive in carriages at the main door in the tower on the left, with its armorial panel above the door, and its pepperpot roof. A similar tower is corbelled out on the right. Dormer windows with carved pediments and a crowstepped gable at the wall-head add further variety to the façade. The Drummond estate spreads out far around the castle in an area referred to in the 1800s as the 'Pleasure Grounds'. Here, the wilder landscape contrasts sharply with the order and symmetry of the formal parterre gardens. To the top left of this view, beyond the line of Drummond Wood can be seen the Loch of Balloch. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and remodelled in the Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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