What is recorded here
Ruthvenfield, Castle Brae and Huntingtower Castle stand together in Perth and Kinross as a medieval castle, country house and tower house. Stone rooms and brae paths still hold the shape of lives lived there, perhaps busy with servants, guests or fear during storms. The exact boundary between fact and memory blunts at this address, but the buildings remain real enough to touch.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ruthvenfield, Castle Brae, Huntingtower Castle as Castle (medieval), Country House (medieval), Tower House(s) (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.
Huntingtower Castle was built in the late 13th or early 14th century by the Ruthven family, a powerful Scottish noble family. It is historically significant as the site of the capture of King James I of Scotland in 1420, an event that had major political consequences for the Scottish crown.
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Places near here
Huntingtower CastleCropmark(s) (period Unknown), Enclosure (prehistoric) · 43 yd
Mains of HuntingtowerFormal Garden (period Unassigned) · 112 yd
HuntingtowerDrain(s) (period Unassigned), Field Boundary(s) (period Unassigned) · 180 yd
RuthvenfieldNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 427 yd
Ruthvenfield Primary SchoolSchool (period Unassigned) · 535 yd
Crieff Road, PerthNo Class (event) (21st Century) · 1079 yd
Perth, Wellshill Cemetery, War MemorialWar Memorial (20th Century) · 1.5 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.5 mi
Pitheavlis CastleCastle · 2.0 mi
Balhousie CastleCastle · 2.0 mi
Buckie BraesPicnic place · 2.1 mi
Cosnakie WoodForest · 2.4 mi