What is recorded here

Couston Castle is a ruined tower house beside Otterston Loch in Fife, rebuilt in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century on land first recorded for Robert de London in 1199. It became a Logan residence, was remodelled under King James V, and later housed Robert Blair, who died there in 1666. By the 1830s much of its south end had been broken open for farm stones, leaving a stark skeleton of walls and memory beside the water.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Couston Castle as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Couston Castle was a medieval tower house, likely built in the late 15th or early 16th century by a local landholding family, though specific builders or occupants are not well documented. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of lowland Scotland during the medieval period.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.