General view.

Description General view.

Date 20/9/1884

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 743015

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 1663

Scope and Content Grandtully Castle, Perth & Kinross, from the north Grandtully Castle is a spectacular tower-house which stands amid beautiful countryside on the south bank of the River Tay near Aberfeldy. Originally built c.1400 as a square keep, the castle was rebuilt and extended in the late 16th century, and altered in 1626 to suit the requirements of the time. Erskine Beveridge, the Victorian photographer, photographed the house in 1884. The castle was constructed on a Z-plan with a square main block (right) and square towers projecting at the north-east (left) and south-west corners. It was built in warm-coloured local rubble, and consists of three main storeys and an attic storey remodelled in the early 17th century to include crowstepped gables and corbelled-out angle-turrets with conical slated roofs (right). A single-storeyed chapel block (left) was added to the north-east tower in the 19th century. The internal arrangements of the castle show many of the traditional features of a late 16th-century Scottish tower-house. The ground floor was vaulted, and that of the main block consisted of two parallel cellars for storage, pierced with gun-loops or shot-holes for defence. The first floor of the main block contained the principal room, a large, square, wood-panelled hall. A passage formed in the thickness of its east wall, led to the laird's private chamber in the north-east tower. This passage, which may have been a relic of the more ancient keep, was lined with garderobes or privies. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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