[1][2] An earlier castle stood around 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) east and dates from 1414; only its foundations remain.

[citation needed] The current castle consists of a Z-plan three-storey towerhouse of 1560, extended in 1626 to create a fortified house.

[3] In the calmer world of the 19th century, extensive additions were made in the 1890s in the Scots Baronial style by Leadbetter & Fairley.

[5] 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.

The castle is said to be the basis of Tully-Veolan, the ancestral home of the Baron of Bradwardine in Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley.