What is recorded here

Pitfour Castle stands at the edge of St Madoes as a private country house built around 1784 for John Richardson, with a curved staircase and painted figure panels still turning the interior into a small theatrical world. The land carries an older edge: in 1592 Harry Lindsay and forty armed men broke into the earlier place at night, displaced its defenders, and set his own servant in charge. That much is written; what is not written is the fear of the people inside when gates opened under false pretence. The house has since burned, been stripped, restored and sold, yet it keeps returning to life because people have kept making it theirs.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pitfour Castle as Burial Enclosure (19th 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.

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