Doune Castle was built for Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, who lived from about 1340 to 1420. The infobox gives about 1400, and the text says it was rebuilt in its present form in the late 14th century, with 13th-century origins. The article names no architect. It is a tower house and courtyard on an irregular pentagon plan, built of coursed sandstone rubble with lighter Ballengeich stone dressings.
The gatehouse measures 59 by 43 feet (18 by 13 m) and rises about 95 feet (29 m). The Great Hall is 66 by 26 feet (20 by 8 m), and the curtain wall is 39 feet (12 m) high. The castle passed to the Crown in 1425 after Albany's son was executed and served as a royal hunting lodge and dower house.
The Earls of Moray owned it from the later 16th century. It was roofless by 1800 and restored in the 1880s, and Historic Environment Scotland now maintains it.
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