What is recorded here

Cleish Castle is a 16th-century tower house built by the Colville family, who conspired against James VI and held the barony until 1775. John Colville took part in the Ruthven Raid and later joined Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, in an attack on Holyroodhouse. The castle was derelict before 1840, then restored in a Scots baronial style by John Lessels, who also designed additions around 1870. It remains a private residence, its grounds listed among Scotland’s significant designed landscapes.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cleish Castle as Building (post Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cleish Castle was built by the Drummond family in the 16th century and is remembered as a historic seat of the Earls of Perth. It is important as a well-preserved example of a Scottish tower house and for its association with a prominent noble family in Perthshire.

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