Pitfour Castle, St Madoes is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Castle. 1 related planning application.
Pitfour Castle, St Madoes
- WRENN ID
- waiting-flagstone-alder
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Castle
- Address
- Pitfour Castle, St Madoes, PH2 7NJ
- OS grid reference
- NO 199 208
- Coordinates
- 56.37341, -3.29767
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pitfour Castle, located in St Madoes, was designed by Robert Adam in 1784 and features a Roman Castellated style. The main block is three stories high with a battered full basement and circular angle towers, and it has a south-facing bow. The exterior is constructed of rubble whinstone with sandstone dressings. To the north, there is a courtyard that includes a single-storey and loft stable block, which also has round towers and a hemicycle wall to the east.
William Burn made additions to the castle in 1825, which included a new library and a circular music room to the northwest, a clock tower at the southwest, and the raising of the northeast stable block tower. The entrance hall created by Burn was removed in 1964, and efforts to restore the north front to its original design began in 1966.
Inside, the castle features an oral staircase with dome figure panels by Zucchi, along with good chimney-pieces and fairly simple plasterwork.
Local climate
Pitfour Castle, St Madoes receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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