What is recorded here

Strathmartine Castle vanished before Captain David Laird built his colonial farmhouse in 1785, leaving no stones behind but a name preserved on maps. Laird returned from the American War of Independence to reshape the estate, erecting cottages and a bold two-storey house with twin bows that swallowed the older identity. The castle exists now only in the address and the memory of a good house described in 1684, while the farmhouse still stands with its droved gatepiers and slate roof. What disappeared is not loss but transformation, the castle becoming the shape of the field rather than the shape of a room.

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

Strathmartine Castle was built by the Elphinstone family in the 15th or 16th century and is remembered as a historic seat of a prominent Scottish noble family. It is important as an example of medieval or early modern domestic architecture in Scotland.

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