Archaeology Notes

Event ID 682244

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO12SE 25.00 15046 22647

NO12SE 25.01 1589 2198 Lodge

NO12SE 25.02 1518 2240 Walled garden

For Kinfauns Castle, Home Farm (NO 1474 2282), see NO12SW 275.00.

(NO 1505 2264) Kinfauns Castle (NAT)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed., (1901)

The former castle, of great age, was removed to make way for the present Kinfauns Castle about 1820.

T Hunter 1897.

Nothing is known of the old castle, but there was formerly at Kinfauns Castle a metal weathercock, bearing the date 1688, possibly the date of the erection of the old castle.

A H Miller 1890.

The present Kinfauns Castle, dated 1825, was designed by Sir Robert Smirke. It is a large castellated mansion, of ashlar, two storeys high with three-storey towers; S frontage 160ft, E frontage 233ft. Large terrace with angle bastions.

SDD 1966.

Photographed by the RCAHM in 1980.

RCAHMS 1980.

LOR/K/7/1 has tentatively been located as site NO12SE 25.00 1505 2264. (HS 17 August 2001)