View from parapet of keep to West. Digital image of D 47398 CN.

Description View from parapet of keep to West. Digital image of D 47398 CN.

Date 28/7/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 760016

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 47398 CN

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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