What is recorded here

New Murthly Castle stands in Perth and Kinross as a 19th Century country house, its rooms built for private life rather than public display. The land may have swallowed earlier structures, yet this house still holds the shape of a family that wanted beauty, warmth and control over its own days. Whether it hosted joyful feasts or quiet loneliness, it gave human beings a place to exist away from the road.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Murthly Castle, New Murthly Castle as Country House (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.

Murthly Castle was originally built by the Murray family in the 13th century and later rebuilt in the 16th century; New Murthly Castle, a 19th-century country house, was constructed by the same family. The site is historically important as the ancestral seat of the Earls of Mansfield and for its association with Scottish nobility and medieval history.

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