What is recorded here

Williamston House stands in Perth and Kinross as a seventeenth-century fortified residence, its walls built to exclude rather than invite. The Burnett family later managed the estate in Aberdeenshire, leaving behind papers that trace domestic life across generations. A house strong enough to resist invasion may have resisted forgetting, holding human warmth inside stone designed for fear.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Williamston House as Fortified House (17th 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.

Williamston House was a 17th-century fortified house in Scotland, likely built by a local landholding family for defense and status during a period of political instability. It is remembered as an example of early Scottish domestic architecture with defensive features.

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