What is recorded here

Drummond Castle rose on a rocky outcrop around 1490, but its gardens became a stage for time itself when a sundial appeared in 1630. The 2nd Earl transformed the place for James VI and Charles I, while a ballad still claims waterworks ran through evergreens and flowers. Queen Victoria walked the terraces in 1842, planting a beech tree that still stands beside ancient yew hedges. The castle keep remains closed, yet the gardens preserve a composite memory of Scottish Renaissance ambition, Victorian renewal and twentieth-century care.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Drummond Castle as Sundial (period Unassigned). 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.

Drummond Castle, located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was built by the Drummond family in the 13th century, with significant expansions occurring in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is important as a historic seat of the Earls of Perth and for its well-preserved Renaissance architecture and gardens.

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