What is recorded here
Methven Castle is a privately owned 17th-century house east of Methven where Margaret Tudor lived after her third marriage and died in 1541. The Mowbray family held the lands from the 12th century until Walter Stewart received them from the crown, and later owners included the Duke of Lennox and Patrick Smythe of Braco, who bought the estate in 1664. John Mylne designed the present square, four-storey block with corner towers and ogee roofs, while later owners added wings and altered the grounds. Kenneth Murdoch restored the surviving house in the 1980s after earlier losses, leaving a compact castle still marked by its Tudor queen and centuries of changing hands.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Methven Castle as Bench Mark (19th Century), Milestone (19th Century). 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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
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