What is recorded here

Balhousie Castle stands on Hay Street in Perth, wearing a 17th-century tower beneath a 19th-country-house frame and a 20th-century museum heart. It is the kind of place where old stone, domestic pride and public memory keep interrupting one another. A visitor may come for gardens or guns, leave with the feeling that Perth has been arguing with itself about what deserves to be remembered.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Perth, Hay Street, Balhousie Castle as Country House (19th Century), Museum (20th Century), Tower House (17th Century), War Memorial (20th 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.

Balhousie Castle, located on Hay Street in Perth, was originally built in the early 14th century by the Comyn family, later held by the Burnetts of Leys, and is historically significant as one of the few Scottish castles to have been besieged three times during the Wars of Scottish Independence. It is remembered for its role in Scottish history and now serves as a museum.

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