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Latitude: 56.3139 / 56°18'49"N
Longitude: -3.135 / 3°8'6"W
OS Eastings: 329883
OS Northings: 714075
OS Grid: NO298140
Mapcode National: GBR 2B.63NQ
Mapcode Global: WH6QW.TK9K
Plus Code: 9C8R8V77+HX
Entry Name: North Walled Garden, Melville House
Listing Name: Monimail Tower or Palace (Also Known As Cardinal Beaton's Tower) and Melville House Garden Walls
Listing Date: 1 March 1984
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349133
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15498
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Melville House, North Walled Garden
ID on this website: 200349133
Location: Monimail
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Howe of Fife and Tay Coast
Parish: Monimail
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Walled garden
The bishop of St Andrews has a residence at Monimail since the 14th century tradition ascribed this tower to Cardinal Beaton (assassinated 1546), but the charter granting Monimail House to James Balfour (later to Pittendreich) describes it as being then ruinous (1564); the tower bears the initials and arms of Balfour of Pittendreich and is dated 1578, the year it was granted to James Balfour, son of the abvoe so the restoration/rebuilding work must in fact have been done for the younger James Balfour. 1969 drawing included in Gillespie and Scott drawings index in SNMR. The Agricultural survey of Fife (1800) states that this tower had "evidently been a part of a much more extensive building, the remains of which can, at this day, be easily traced". Small rubble- built vaulted structure (possible icehouse?) to north is open at west end, and has gun-port on south wall. Dated lintel, in common wall, also inscribed with initials of David, Earl of Leven and Melville.
Minor update to listed building record (2023)
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