Grandtully Castle

Grandtully Castle is a historic building in Grandtully, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is a Category A listed building dating back to 1560, with an earlier castle that stood around 1 mile (1.5km) east and dates from 1414, only its foundations remain. The current castle is a Z-plan three-storey towerhouse, which was extended in 1626 to create a fortified house. The castle has had extensive additions made in the 1890s in the Scots Baronial style, by Leadbetter & Fairley. The lands and castle belonged to the Stewart family from the 14th century, and it was used by the Earl of Mar in the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and by Bonnie Prince Charlie in the 1745 rebellion. In the early 1860s, the estate was rented by Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, known as the Black Prince of Perthshire. It is now divided as private flats and is said to be the basis of “Tully-Veolan” in Sir Walter Scott’s “Waverley” novels.