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Pitreavie Castle, Fife
Location: Dunfermline, Fife KY11 8TX (map and directions)
Today, Pitreavie Castle is a country house converted into residential apartments, but
Pitreavie has passed through several hands as a privately owned castle and property of the
Air Ministry since its construction in the early 14th century. 
Pitreavie Castle
History of Pitreavie CastlePitreavie Castle is located between Rosyth and Dunfermline in Fife, and was first owned by
Lady Christina Bruce, Robert the Bruce’s sister in the 14th century. By the 17th century the
Kello family owned Pitreavie, when Henry Wardlaw of Balmule, the Chamberlain to Queen Anne, wife of James IV of Scotland purchased the estate. Wardlaw constructed the house
into a much more grand building than its original frame, and its symmetrical U-shaped
layout, spiral staircases and intricate design means that Pitreavie is considered to be an
important example of a 17th century house planned in the style of Sir James Murray, the
King’s Master of Works.
The castle stayed in the family’s hands until 1703, when it was sold to Archibald Primrose,
1st Earl of Roseberry, who passed it quickly on to Sir Robert Blackwood, eventually the Lord
Provost of Edinburgh. Pitreavie Castle remained with the Blackwoods for 170 years, though
a near century of that it was left vacant. It was eventually sold to the Air Ministry, who
transformed the building into the headquarters for operation coordination between the
Royal Navy and Air Force, and then the NATO North Atlantic Area headquarters after WWII
until it closed in 1996.
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