Murthly Castle 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.
Murthly Castle
- WRENN ID
- leaning-tracery-martin
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Castle
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Large F-plan. Oldest part S.W. tower, 4-storey and attic 16th
cent. tower house probably incorporating earlier work:
turrets N.E. and S.W.; angle finial N.W. Early 17th cent.
onwards, additions on E 2-storey and attics (later remodelled
to 2-storey) with 4-storey crowstepped tower; T-plan addition
on N. 3-storey with swept dormer heads. 2-storey entrance
hall, pedimented with Venetian doorway at 1st floor level,
curved outside staircase with 3-arch loggia below c.1725-40
reputedly, and in the manner of Wm. Adam. Piend roof
addition to N. wing 3-storey c.1800. E. end of E. wing
reconstructed as dining-room with hammer beam roof, large
2-storey addition with square angle tower having pyramid roof (dormerheads of 1666, 1673, and 1677 incorporated) containing
notable ballroom and staircase with fine painted ceilings,
c.1875. Middle wing rebuilt 1893 A. Duncan (Clerk of Works,
Murthly) archt., (? from sketch designs by Leadbetter and
Fairley).
Detailed Attributes
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