What is recorded here

Pittarthie Castle stands as a roofless hilltop ruin in Fife, built around 1580 for James Monypenny of Pitmilly and later remodeled by William Bruce of Pittarthie in 1653. Its staggered L-plan, stair tower, gunloop and pistol holes reveal a defensible house designed for danger as much as display. The surviving walled garden and terraces suggest a lived estate rather than a bare fortress, where Bruce family members may have walked among beds and borders long after the castle stopped being new.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pittarthie 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.

Pittarthie Castle is a medieval tower house located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and is believed to have been built in the 15th or 16th century. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of the Scottish Borders and lowland regions during the medieval period.

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