{{Short description|Location in Perthshire in Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}} {{Use British English|date=June 2014}} thumb|Stobhall Castle in 1999, looking north
{{designation list | designation1 = Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland | designation1_offname = Stobhall | designation1_date = 1 July 1987 | designation1_number = {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=GDL00348|short=yes}} }}
'''Stobhall''' (or '''Stobhall Castle''') is a country house and estate in Perthshire in Scotland, {{convert|8|mi|km}} from Perth. The 17th-century dower house and several other buildings are Category A-listed with Historic Environment Scotland.<ref name="hes">{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=GDL00348|desc=STOBHALL|access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref>
The lands at Stobhall have been in the hands of the Drummond family, the Earls of Perth, since the 14th century.<ref name="hes"/> Stobhall Castle was the ancestral seat of the Drummonds, a stronghold of Roman Catholicism in Scotland after the English Reformation, the Drummonds being staunch Roman Catholic recusants.<ref>{{cite news|title=Now Up For Sale|url=http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/23rd-october-1953/8/now-up-for-sale|publisher=Catholic Herald|date=23 October 1953}}</ref> It is one of two castles (the other is Drummond Castle) traditionally associated with the family.
James IV of Scotland came to Stobhall on 6 February 1498 and was entertained by a lute player.<ref>Thomas Dickson, ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 376.</ref>
In 2012, a number of items from the house were auctioned at Bonhams in Edinburgh, raising over £900,000; the current earl James David Drummond, 19th Earl of Perth, and paternal grandson of the 17th Earl, decided to move to London.<ref>{{cite news|title=Treasures of Stobhall to go under hammer|url=http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/treasures-of-stobhall-to-go-under-hammer-1-2209109|publisher=The Scotsman|date=1 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Stobhall Castle auction surpasses expectations|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-17938207|publisher=BBC|date=3 May 2012}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=GDL00348|desc=STOBHALL}}
Category:Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Perth and Kinross Category:Country houses in Perth and Kinross Category:Listed castles in Scotland Category:Dower houses
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