Kingseat
Building (18th Century) - (19th Century), House (19th Century), Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Kingseat
Classification Building (18th Century) - (19th Century), House (19th Century), Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 29238
Site Number NO15SW 34
NGR NO 1474 5450
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/29238
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Alyth
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (24 October 1988)
NO15SW 34 1474 5450
Central to the S wing of 19th Century Kingseat House there are the remains of what may be a tower-house. These consist of a block measuring 7.1m by 4.8m over walls 0.6m thick, two storeys and an attic in height, which is characterised by the use of granite dressings and an irregularity in the spacing of its windows; to the rear, at second-floor level, there are a number of tusking-stones. A gun-loop and four iron yetts, which have been incorporated in the garden walls at Kingseat, may have come from this or some other fortified house.
Kingseat appears on the maps of Pont (c.1600) and Roy (1747-55), and a mansion is depicted by Stobie (1783).
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 24 October 1988
RCAHMS 1990
Note (10 December 1997)
One unroofed L-shaped building is situated immediately W of Kingseat House as depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet xlii), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1979).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 10 December 1997.
