What is recorded here

Lethendy House stands as a medieval tower house in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, where a tenth-century Pictish symbol stone was repurposed as a staircase lintel. The structure contains a pit-prison beneath a turnpike stair and a gunloop defending the entrance, evidence that it served as much to confine as to shelter. Herons owned the property, and later Andrew Heiton designed a castellated mansion there in 1884, layering domestic grandeur over older defensive bones. The building remains a study in reuse, where ancient carvings and medieval restraint were absorbed into centuries of changing human ambition.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lethendy House as Country House (medieval), Cross Slab (medieval), Grave Slab (medieval), Pictish Symbol Stone (pictish), 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.

Lethendy House is a medieval tower house located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, built in the 16th century by the Leslie family, a prominent Scottish noble lineage. It is important as part of the historic Leslie estates and for its association with the region's medieval aristocracy.

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