What is recorded here

Pitcairlie House stands in Fife as a medieval tower house later shaped into a 16th-century country residence, its stones carrying both martial defense and domestic ambition. The exact location is known, yet the chamber still withholdss its layout, rooms and fate. What is certain is that the place survived long enough to be measured, named and remembered, while the lives inside it have thinned into silence.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pitcairlie House as Country House (16th Century), 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.

Pitcairlie House, located on the Kincardine O'Neil coast in Fife, was built in the 16th century by the Keith family, a prominent Scottish noble family. It is remembered as the childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous Scottish author, who spent summers there as a boy, inspiring his later literary works.

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