View of keep from courtyard to East.
SC 759996
Description View of keep from courtyard to East.
Date 1/4/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 759996
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 47354 CN
Scope and Content Keep and inner courtyard from east, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the oldest part of the castle, with its gatehouse and entrance arch (left) and its main five-storeyed keep to the right (partly built into the natural rock). This contains a narrow spiral staircase. The ground-floor room had originally been the castle's kitchen, with main banqueting hall on the floor above. The three upper storeys were rebuilt by Lord Willoughby de Eresby in the 19th century, and it is then that the castellations, turrets and bellcote were added to make the castle appear more ornate and picturesque. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consists 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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